WHAT DO YOU CARE ABOUT?
Over the next months I hope to interview each of the candidates for the City Council District 1 seat. Tell me what you want to know.

FOR YOUR DOWNTOWN VALENTINE
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THE NEIGHBORHOOD MEETS THE BLIZZARD OF ’21
ICYMI, it snowed. A lot.

CITY WORKERS COULD COME BACK BY MAY
The mayor announces in his weekly press conference that he could bring workers back to City Hall. And not a moment too soon.

SEEN & HEARD
A few pieces of Tribeca history: a Danny Lyon show of Tribeca in 1967; a news box from Washington and Reade; historic shop cats of Tribeca.

NOSY NEIGHBOR: WHEN WILL THAT LAST SECTION OF HRP OPEN?
“With Pier 25 always so busy and the new Pier 26 getting a lot of visitors too, it’s made me notice even more the construction shed and cars parked in the undeveloped section between those two piers.”

COMMUNITY BOARD 1 AGENDAS FOR FEBRUARY
Changes afoot at 42 Walker; liquor licenses for the new Mexican on Duane Park and the hotel rising at 456 Greenwich. Plus the borough based jails still on the agenda.

OPEN LETTER
The executive director of Hudson River Park Friends recalls Madelyn Wils’ 25 years of leadership, from the opening of a playground for PS 234 to the opening of Pier 26 this year.