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••• Buzz Buzz Home says the permits have been filed for 100 Franklin, the two-triangle building on Sixth Ave. between Franklin and White. Am I the only one who prefers the initial version?
••• “A fire broke out Monday afternoon in an air handling room of the second floor offices of The Weinstein Company, the Tribeca movie production company at 99 Hudson St, between Franklin and Harrison. A building superintendent and another building worker were injured. The Fire Department called both injuries minor.” P.S. Tamarind is open. —Tribeca Trib
••• “In an effort to ease the crowding crunch in Downtown elementary schools, Chancellor Carmen Fariña said on June 10 that ‘everything is on the table.’ The chancellor declined to rule out eliminating the planned 6th-to-8th grades at the Spruce Street School, now a schoolyear away from opening its 6th grade classes.” —Tribeca Trib
••• The annual Southbridge Towers yard sale is Thursday through Saturday. —Broadsheet
••• The New York Times on the new Ambrose Hall at 18 Fulton: “The Lure Group is running this 120-seat beer hall featuring craft brews, artisanal whiskeys and bar food that includes sandwiches and sausages.” Also, Il Mulino Prime (steakhouse spinoff) opens Monday at W. Broadway and Broome Grand.
••• Page 17 of this week’s New York magazine has a spectacular photo looking down from up near the top of 8 Spruce Street (the Gehry building), with a blurb about what it’s like washing the windows…. The annual cleaning takes six months. It’s not online (yet?).
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Chancellor F misspoke.
–Spruce already is a middle school. DOE staff has already been meeting with parents & administrators to plan the 6-8. Also, it was built as a middle school (bathrooms, science labs), and includes middle school supplies in storage.
–In 2000, the city asked CB1 to upzone the lot that would become Barnes&Noble/Whole Food Bldg. They promised a K-8 in exchange. Spruce was that K-8. The B&N building was built in eight months. But don’t ask me, ask CB
–Current fourth graders at Spruce will need a list of possible middle schools by this Sept, so they can tour and apply by Dec 14. If Spruce won’t be on that list, Farina & the DOE have 3 months with which to announce their decision & convert those floors ($$$) to elementary space.
–Spruce already took in a full-day pre-k, and also permanently hosts
—There were no district 2 K-waiting lists (save a small one at 276) according to the DOE. So why mention it at all? (<– insert sarcastic tone)
“and also permanently hosts another school”
These stupid band-aids have to stop. What are they up to 7 or 8 kindergarten classes at 234 now? They either have to go back to building buildings with studios and one bedrooms or make basic amenities mandatory in the planning. We need middle schools to accomodate all the elementary seats being created. 7500 NYC High School Students did not receive seats in the first round. The argument that if you can afford to live here you can afford private school is absurd since every NYC kid is guaranteed a spot in public school.
I prefer the old design too. I will be looking at that building for the rest of my life from 279 church.
“Il Mulino Prime (steakhouse spinoff) opens Monday at W. Broadway and” Grand St.
Funny, I thought it was Grand, but I trusted the NYT
100 Franklin – “DoB Job No: 121185993 … ERECT NEW BUILDING (NORTH BUILDING) … REQUESTING ZONING REVIEW ONLY AT THIS TIME FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION TO BSA [Board of Standards and Appeals].”
On 100 Franklin: the new design is just as bad as the old –only in a different way.