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Nosy Neighbor: Is anything happening with the former Tent & Trails?
“Alex” wrote a comment on the site that 21 Park Place, the former Tent & Trails, is about to be developed as a condo, and that Troy Realty Capital is the developer. Now it turns out that Alex has a fake email address and in my mind cannot be a trusted source, but either way it was a good prompt to check the records.
Nothing has been filed at the Department of Buildings since an approved permit for a construction fence in 2023.
The building was sold in July 2018, not long after Tent & Trails closed its doors after 46 years in that spot, for $9 million. The construction of 19 Park Place next door evidently caused structural damage to 21 Park Place, and as a result, the building had to be given a new underpinning (no small project in a 100-year-old edifice).
And then in December 2018, 21 Park Place pancaked. “All that was left was the facade and the staircase, with the fire extinguishers still attached to the wall,” said Jamie Lipman, the owner of Tent & Trails, when I bumped into her on Long Island a couple of years ago. (More on the business here, if you want a trip down memory lane.)
Since then, the city records show several mortgages on the property, the last in 2022.
I will keep an eye on it.
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Tent + Trails, one of the stores that made old Tribeca worth while. Truly missed.
Tents & Trails was always an interesting window-shopping stop, and could make a non-outdoorsman long (at least a little) for the rugged life.
It’s interesting how much a neighborhood draws its character from notable businesses, past and present (besides T&T, think J&R Music World, Church St. Surplus, Mysterious Bookstore, Ruby’s Book Sale, Job Lot Trading, several hardware stores, and many others). Sadly, with so many shuttered storefronts today, we are missing out on businesses that could make Tribeca a more remarkable and convenient place.
People using T&T as a showroom for Amazon was what put them under. We were loyal customers (and we’re not outdoorsmen) for all sorts of NYC cold and bad weather gear and miss them terribly. Before our first trip to Alaska 15 years ago Jamie suggested buying wide-angle binoculars, which makes it much easier to spot birds and other wildlife. That pair still travels with us on all our trips into any place rural or wild. Thank you Jamie,
If development only counted when DOB paperwork was filed on time, half the city wouldn’t exist. When it all checks out, I’ll be gracious enough to accept your handwritten apology – cursive preferred, on embossed stationary.