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In the News: “J&R Express” Inside Century 21
••• “J&R […] has cut a deal to open a ‘J&R Express’ boutique inside Century 21’s flagship store.” —New York Post
••• “Construction has started atop the Battery Maritime Building at 10 South St.” (You might know it better as the building where you board the Governors Island ferry.) It will be a hotel. —Downtown Post NYC
••• “The NYPD announced it will begin ticketing cyclists who break the rules of the road with a new initiative called Operation Safe Cycle. Over the next two weeks, the program will target bikers who run red lights, ride the wrong way against traffic and fail to yield to pedestrians.” Two weeks ought to do it! (Sarcasm.) The NYP can meet its quota by hanging out around Church and Reade (especially at dinnertime) or Broadway and Warren (at commuting hours)—those are the two spots where I tend to nearly get run over. —Wall Street Journal
••• 15 William (a.k.a. the William Beaver House) is going from rentals to condos. —Curbed
••• You have to feel sympathy for lifestyle editors looking for new ways to cover watches—a big advertising category in the luxury media—but boy, today’s New York Times article about a Rolex in the 9/11 Museum collection sure made me cringe. (“Few objects of personal luxury are more reliable markers of milestones than a fine timepiece.”)
••• The World Trade Center has a new logo. (“Landor Associates, a corporate identity firm whose best known creation may be the FedEx brand, was awarded a $3.57 million contract by the authority board in 2013.”) —New York Times (photo courtesy Curbed)
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The construction at the Battery Maritime Building has been underway for about a year now. I reported it in FiDi Fan Page back in 2013. Downtown Express has only just noticed it. :-) In addition to a boutique hotel, there will be a rooftop bar/restaurant, but also a ground floor 2,000 person capacity Event Space that will host everything from Farmers Markets to Concerts, Art Displays to Fashion Shows. It’s supposed to be ready by the end of 2015.
I’m glad the NYPD is going after cyclists. I ride my bike a lot and have been surprised to learn that it’s not the taxis and trucks you need to watch out for, it’s badly behaved cyclists (and clueless pedestrians that are not paying attention)!
Well I had better behave myself now!! I am an avid CitiBike rider and “usually” go the right way but sometimes it is just so much more convenient to go the wrong way…especially early in the morning.
I ride, walk and drive in the city and HANDS DOWN the biggest problem are the pedestrians. By far. The taxis may not like cyclists but they have grown accustom to us.
The pedestrians are the worst! The city is so safe now that these young people still think they are in NC…or where ever they come from. The police should start ticketing them as well
…got to remember to start carrying ID with me….just a “note to oneself.”
I am curious about what pedestrians do to make them such a problem?
They walk blindly into the street, often while looking at their phones or in the opposite direction of the oncoming traffic, completely oblivious to the fact that there are cars and trucks doing 40 mph inches away from them.
Cyclists going the wrong way on one-way streets is way too common and so dangerous. How can two weeks of police vigilance possibly change these habits?