Newsletter: March 16

We are all in some sort of timewarp news cycle vortex. Only four days ago, in last Thursday’s newsletter, we were talking about Blood Manor’s liquor license, a sculpture for Chambers Street, a jazz club for the Bogardus Mansion. The private schools had just started to announce closures. That now seems like a lifetime ago. May we all be talking about missing cornices again soon.

LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
A mailbox with a safe message; a crowd at City Vineyard thumbs its nose at the coronavirus; some restaurants starting to close; a beauty from Robert Janz, painted while masked.

CITIBANK HAS ONE CONFIRMED CASE OF COVID-19
There are now several confirmed cases coming out of downtown companies, and I assume more that we don’t know about.

REAL PILATES WILL HOLD CLASSES ONLINE ONLY
Clients can take classes online, a side of the business the studio has been developing for five years and will really come in handy now.

LOCAL BUSINESSES TAKING PRECAUTIONS
Local businesses and restaurants are taking extra precautions in light of the coronavirus, all while trying to hold on to a bit of their business.

WHOLE FOODS PACKED; SHELVES EMPTY
Some stock is in the warehouse, but Whole Foods just can’t get it to the stores fast enough. Plus my favorite handwashing tip of the season.

RUN AT THE BANK?
Bank of America on Greenwich Street ran out of 50s and 100s this afternoon. And the mayor announced this afternoon that the city has cancelled all non-essential activities at public schools.

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL IS POSTPONED
With the governor banning events of 500 or more due to the coronavirus, the 19th annual festival has been postponed.

NEW KID IN TWO BRIDGES: GOLDEN DINER
Chef Sam Yoo is a local New Yorker who wanted a upscale diner for his own neighborhood. So he added his Momofuku pedigree to the equation.

MODELL’S WILL CLOSE ALL ITS STORES
Our location at Chambers and Broadway has been there for 70 years, since Henry Modell opened a job training program there in 1946 and a retail store three years later.

HOW FLASHDANCERS IS HANDLING THE CORONAVIRUS
Who better to ask than a stripclub to see how to protect both customers and staff?

INTERACTIVE THEATER FOR WILLIAM STREET REJECTED
CB1 rejected the liquor license for Sleep No More, which has plans to create a 100,000-square-foot interactive performance space with three bars and late hours.

CORNICES REMOVED ON THE HOPE BUILDING
The building, which is in the historic district, should be restored in full, but in the meantime the columns look naked.

WHERE IN TRIBECA?
More neighborhood curlicues. You have walked by them a thousand times. Who knows where they are?

 

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