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CHAMBERS MAKES THE TIMES 100
The Times released its list of the city’s 100 best restaurants and longtime local fave Chambers made the list. Fab. Jungsik is on there as well, and Maison Passerelle at Printemps and Saga in Fidi, along with a long list from Chinatown: Sunn’s, Kono, Hop Lee, Lei, Golden Diner, Corima. Of Chambers, The Times write: “The sesame pizza bianca is tall, gold-crusted, volcanically bubbled and porous within. It’s an omen for the meal to come, each dish detailed and heartfelt. Jonathan Karis, an alumnus of Gramercy Tavern, takes the season’s bounty and coaxes it into its fullest expression — home cooking at its most virtuosic.”
READING ALOUND FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES
The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, set up at the Mriya Gallery at 101 Reade, hosted a live 24-hour broadcast reading of the Epstein files, and amNY covered it this morning. Survivors of Epstein and his sexual abuses are the readers. “It just looks like paper, books, but what’s really important is to remember that we are actually real,” said Sharlene Rochard, one of Epstein’s hundreds of victims. “This is not a democratic hoax, so these are our stories in here, and they bring back really traumatic memories, so it’s actually really hard to do.”
NEW PLANS FOR PIER 15 AT THE SEAPORT
The Broadsheet covered CB1’s endorsement of a plan for new management by NY Waterway of the publicly-owned Pier 15. “Critics allege that early assurances about public access and amenities have been eclipsed as much of Pier 15 has been privatized and monetized,” The Broadsheet wrote.
ART GALLERIES CONVENE ON STREET VENDORS
This is a bit old but worth referencing: Hyperallergic noted that a group of Tribeca galleries met in January to ask the city to address the issues of street vendors in the gallery district. The galleries were seeking help from the city on safety and accessibility, and encouraged galleries to make 311 calls when necessary.
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To get rid of the street venders in the gallery district, all the NYPD has to do is arrest the customers (possession of stolen goods, whatever; it’ll all be dimissed anyway) once in a short while, and once word gets out, no market.
Correct. But they could also look at the cops who take a little on the side to look the other way.
The cops have been ordered by the city’s politicians to look the other way.
I agree that the city doesn’t much care. And the cops are definitely benefitting from that.
There is a chain of command. The cops can’t crack down on this unless they have the support of City Hall. They do not have the support of City Hall.
Aren’t the goods counterfeit, not stolen? As far as I know, purchase of counterfeit goods is not illegal in the USA. That in itself is a problem. Buying counterfeit goods is illegal in the European Union, and it should be here as well. Every purchase strengthens and funds organized crime.
Seems to me what needs to be done includes:
– regular (i.e. daily) seizure of the counterfeit merchandise
– regular (daily) clearing of the sidewalks, with arrests and fines for the sellers for the various violations (selling counterfeit materials, obstructing sidewalks, vending without license, littering, public urination, etc.)
The problem with the second part is that the police tell me that arrests and fines do not deter them at all. Police told me they make arrests every day (?) but there are too many sellers. But maybe if these were regular enough, they would have an effect.
The key point is “regular”. The enforcement is so sporadic that it has no effect.
What else can the neighborhood do about this? I write 311, the mayor, City Council, contact the police repeatedly, etc. But if anything the problem is worse than ever. It’s spreading from Canal Street deeper into the neighborhoods. I dread trying to get to the Broadway line subway entrances anymore. It has become an obstacle course. This is also even worse for those in wheelchairs, or with children.
Where are our leaders on all of this??
It is complex. I recommend reading this to get a sense of the jurisdictions of each agency:
https://tribecacitizen.com/2025/10/24/illegal-vending-on-canal-street-its-a-constant-churn/
I just read the linked article from Hyperallergic (good name, as the article gave me a brain rash).
I couldn’t make any sense of it. Politicians and gallery owners seem to contradict themselves at every turn: the vendors are a problem, but they are not a problem. They are in violation, but they are some kind of gift to NYC culture. We should call 311, but no we shouldn’t call 311. We need the police involved, but no the police are evil. We should enforce the law, but no they get a pass and are beyond the law. Galleries can’t even decide what they want.
Immigrants or not, the city rules and laws should be consistently enforced. Being an immigrant does not make anyone above the law. If the laws need modernization, then reform the laws. But impassable filthy littered sidewalks full of counterfeit junk, funding organized crime, with sellers harassing pedestrians, is not an acceptable scenario in any way.
Agreed.
Chambers is one of my local faves as well! Congrats to them!