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Tribeca Park Cafe will close Friday after 45 years
J. wrote to say that Tribeca Park Cafe, the deli at 1 Walker at the top of West Broadway, will close this Friday. Their Instagram account confirmed that they would close the end of August after more than four decades — they opened in 1980. I hate to see staples like this go — especially in the northern part of the neighborhood. It’s a loss.
The deli has a fabulous mural of the neighborhood that was painted by Konstantin Bokov in 1992; in 2019, it was the scene of the ending of the “The Assistant,” starring Julia Garner and Matthew Macfadyen; they were featured in Business Insider when the bird flu drove egg prices sky high.
The closing is no doubt in preparation for the demolition of that corner, which was sold in January for $18 million to an LLC called Walker Property. Tribeca Pharmacy closed in January 2024, and Anotheroom is planning a move lower down West Broadway, just south of The Odeon. You can bet that something as practical as a deli will not be part of the new building.
The Real Deal said the building will be called 1 Walker and will be a “10-story, 125-foot luxury condo complex, according to a source familiar with the deal. The firm is also pursuing additional air rights at the site,” the story said. The developers are Sumaida + Khurana: they were the construction managers for 157 Hudson, the landmark brick building on Collister; they co-developed Soori High Line on West 29th; and they are developing a new building at 152 Elizabeth designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando.
The building was one of the many owned by Peter Matera — he lived there as well, and I had heard there was a hottub on the deck — who died in 2023, leaving his estate with a Tribeca real estate portfolio originally amassed over decades by his father. Many of the buildings have been sold off already; this one has a lot of potential.
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It’s a real loss. There’s so little left of the former working class Tribeca of my youth where you could get a simple inexpensive meal with no fuss and bother. I still miss that place that used to be on Chambers and Church, not to mention Socrates. And of course the long gone Magoo’s.
…and Saluggi’s pizza
Any retail or all condos?
DOH Restaurant Inspection Scores, Last 3 Years:
Inspection Date Result Points
December 17, 2024 Violations Issued 7
September 27, 2024 Violations Issued 29
March 6, 2024 Violations Issued 13
December 15, 2023 Violations Issued 52
September 13, 2022 Violations Issued 13
“A” grade: 0 to 13 points for sanitary violations
“B” grade: 14 to 27 points for sanitary violations
“C” grade: 28 or more points for sanitary violations
Tribeca is dead unfortunately.
Tribeca has been ruined by the “im important because im a mommy with a stroller” crowd. The most ordinary SUBURBAN people have moved to Tribeca and ruined it. Its embarrassing to be in tribeca now.
They come to the city and make it into the cush soft life they really want from the suburbs, but news flash losers nyc isn’t meant to be your child’s play ground.
Tribeca used to have soul. It used to be eclectic. Sure some families, but respectful families that care to integrate to nyc life in a slightly quieter neighborhood. It was community. People supported the community. From person to person to retail and resturants.
Now all it is is developments for suburban losers who shop on Amazon and don’t support anyrhing other than a nail salon and maybe a coffee shop. Its LA meets Ohio meets Utah. Ugly. All the money and still look and act awfully. Go shop at one of the stores in tribeca and at least look better.
(And all the luxury developments are cheap and dated already)
“Sure some families, but respectful families that care to integrate to nyc life in a slightly quieter neighborhood.”
There are plenty of Tribeca families who didn’t come to NYC from the suburbs – Independence Plaza, for example, was full of NYC natives who raised their own families here. If anything, Tribeca was greatly improved by the children who lived and grew up here and it was a damn great “playground” for a long time.
The real issue is how all those kids were priced out of their own homes. Even my friends whose parents owned their lofts are often forced to sell them because the new, rich residents and their building-wide makeovers and the maintenance fees went sky-high.
I agree that the beauty of Tribeca is almost entirely gone, dead, lost. But it’s not because of families – it’s because of the wild, unchecked wealth held by the most boring/conformist adult newcomers who have no sense of community or creativity.
You really hit the nail on the head. Boring transplants have ruined Tribeca (and other neighborhoods too) with their corporate asskissing lifestyles lacking any semblance of style, creativity, or sense of community.
We once had an audio store at 3 Walker Street 1965-1969. Magoos was our neighbor along with Leroy’s. Lower Manhattan Loft Tenants held weekly meetings at Magoos that lasted until 2am crafting the conditions that precipitated the 1980 Loft Law. Another era. Tribeca evolved.
I miss the old Tribeca too. So many places have closed I can’t name them all. These suburban newbies are incredibly rude and so full of themselves. I hate going to WF where they proudly parade their dogs as if, of course, the rules don’t apply to them.