The History of Tribeca Buildings database—compiled from Tom Miller's posts at Daytonian in Manhattan—now has well over 100 entries, each with the zesty anecdotes you've come to expect. Here are six recent additions.
Plus: The two-year construction of Pier 26 has officially started; 28 Liberty skyscraper is on the market; advertising company wants to put cellphone boosters on newsstands. / 4 comments
Plus: Rosie Assoulin sample sale; peeking into the Maharishi store; satirical novel set in Lower Manhattan; Broadway address clarification. / 1 comment
Plus: Manhatta review; changes likely coming to Brookfield Place; Morgenstern's ice cream opens this week.
Plus: The Smyth hotel changed its name for real this time; progress at the Cast Iron House sidewalk; big Weill Cornell medical facility; "Law & Order: SVU" shoot. / 11 comments
This auction represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to name your price on a luxury condominium in a new boutique development in Tribeca. / Sponsored
Many of Jane Freeman's photos from the 1980s and 1990s were taken at locations I've been unable to identify. Feel free to weigh in. / 7 comments
Plus: Van listed as lodging on Airbnb; deals on new condos; more on the cop and veteran to get a street-naming; Bogardus Plaza plant giveaway; ferry costs keep increasing; a previous incarnation of Trinity Church. / 1 comment
Plus: Truck crash on W. Broadway; Japanese restaurant changing its name; gallery returns to its former Leonard Street home; 70 Vestry's lot-line "windows"; Battery Park City parks survey results. / 4 comments
Former Intermix owners Haro and Sari Sloane Keledjian have taken turned half of their kids' clothing store, Everafter, into an outpost of their new brand for adults. "The Westside is a laid-back, bohemian, one-stop shop for all things casual and comfortable," says Sari.
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Plus: Stella will be moving; advertising barge; the restaurant in the former Trump Soho has failed again; Community Board 1 to discuss P.S. 150 move and rooftop additions on Walker and Duane; Sherwin-Williams paint store opening in former nightclub. / 1 comment
Zucker's is still my go to bagel source! — Robert Ripps / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
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
Similar background, the same thought. Saddens me a bit. I haven't tried the Utopia Bagels shop on 34th, which may... — Mulciber / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
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