Plus: The Brooklyn Bridge was closed because of pedestrian overcrowding; remembering a razed Battery Park mansion; the last days of Washington Market.
Plus: The sorry state of City Hall Park; how to recycle your Christmas tree; renovation of the little building on Walker Street; what's up with Breads Bakery at the World Trade Center mall? / 7 comments
Also on Community Board 1's January agendas: Exterior renovation for Leonard Street residential conversion; Pace University signage at two subway stops; Seaport Blockhouse bar; new bar on Murray; Church Street pocket park; the changes at Greca; much more. / 3 comments
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Plus: Korin shows you how to sharpen knives; Wall Street building to be converted to hotel. / 9 comments
It looks like Love Bug Café & Play will have some competition.
Plus: Duane Street building bombed in a 1906 labor dispute; Bruce Springsteen subway tribute; recent thefts and assaults. / 2 comments
Plus: Two Chambers Street restaurants are getting remodeled; Playday is looking to open in Tribeca; prominent building under construction on Church; useless arrow. / 4 comments
Plus: Praise for Cortlandt Way; Bouley Botanical is still an event space; checking in on Cast Iron House's sidewalk; great photo looking up. / 1 comment
Shinola had a cafe in the front when it opened, but then the cafe part closed, like, 10 years ago.... — PGCNYC / Seen & Heard: Drip coffee at Shinola
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The best non-bagel shop bagel is Starbucks. I remember Florence when I worked down the block from 51st Street. Loved... — Sherri Rosen / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Glad to read the clarifying comment by Judy Epstein Gage, and glad to hear David Gage will be staying in... — Marcus / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood
I grew up in a neighborhood with basement bagel, bakeries, long, narrow, bagel, ovens, bagelmeister’s, who really knew their craft.... — A. / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
In our house the cart bagels are what we call "cake bagels", barely 1 step up from Lender's frozen bagels.... — Nicole Vianna / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Unfortunately this is true about virtually every public works project in the city. Take a walk around all of the... — Reademan / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City