Glad to read the clarifying comment by Judy Epstein Gage, and glad to hear David Gage will be staying in the neighborhood after all! — Marcus on Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood

I grew up in a neighborhood with basement bagel, bakeries, long, narrow, bagel, ovens, bagelmeister’s, who really knew their craft. What Is being sold now bears no resemblance to real bagels. The last time I had a real bagel was 10 years ago – in Lithuania. — A. on Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street

In our house the cart bagels are what we call "cake bagels", barely 1 step up from Lender's frozen bagels. And Dunkin is a very close cousin. — Nicole Vianna on Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street

Unfortunately this is true about virtually every public works project in the city. Take a walk around all of the road construction, there is no outside supervision of the work being done. Most of the day is spent uncovering and covering the same holes in the street. The amount of waste is mindboogling, and a big reason we are the most expensive place to live with the highest taxes. — Reademan on A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City

This bagel Baedeker doesn't even include the ubiquitous food carts that vend breakfast essentials, including - say it - bagels. Sorry for the omission. — Gary on Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street

Don’t ask me how I have this connection, but I’ve spoken to the construction manager 1:1 before (he didn't know who I was or that I lived in the neighborhood), and when I asked how long this phase of the project would take, he said “oh it’ll definitely be 10 years, not five. And it’ll cost $3B, not $2B once it’s all said and done.” I also have a witness to this exchange, FWIW. After the disastrous Wagner Park timeline (and $300M to build a two story building on a hill that took 3 years and still doesn't have a restaurant), and the flood wall thats now three years in and still somehow not complete, I believe him and hope someone investigates this travesty. — Upset BPC Resident on A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City

Thank you for the article about the move of our primary retail and repair business, Finlay and Gage, from Tribeca to 57th street. I would like to clarify a few things. Although Finlay and Gage has moved to be closer to many of the premier Manhattan based music venues and related businesses, David Gage String Instruments and The Realist are remaining in the 113 Chambers/95 Reade street space. In fact, we will be using the Chambers street side to return to "our roots" -- a space for master classes with an emphasis on string bass and cello, affordable rehearsal space, and an informal art studio and gallery. We look forward to our continued presence in the neighborhood. — Judy Epstein Gage on Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood

True North Tribeca! https://www.instagram.com/truenorthtribeca — James Bogardus on North Bar is closing for the summer — and will reopen as something new

It looks like an Ess-a-bagel is coming the Murray. The bagel wars continue!! — Reademan on Modern Bread & Bagel is open

I loved walking by on Chambers, seeing all the instruments and folks working on them. It’s a reminder of what happens behind the scenes in order for music and art to be created and something unique to brighten my daily walk to work. I don’t know the full story of why they moved but it’s sad when longtime businesses in the neighborhood are forced to leave. I hope something equally interesting can take its spot. — freya on Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood

We went there over the weekend. The food was really good and a really good deal - it's cheaper than most places around it — B on Sneak Peek: Friedmans on Greenwich

I wish Meadow Lane would do the same with regard to respecting our neighborhood. Their trash and customer litter is everywhere on Greenwich Street. — Reggie on Good Neighbor: Apollo Bagels deals with its trash

Thank God nobody was hurt! — JT on Parking lift at Warren and West Broadway collapses, injuring attendant

So fortunate that nobody was seriously hurt!!! — Tribeca Local on Parking lift at Warren and West Broadway collapses, injuring attendant

This argument is a bit circular isn’t it? What was “very necessary” about destroying a neighborhood (as is apparent to everybody going around BPC even at this early stage) for multiple years, and removing hundreds of healthy beautiful trees? Obviously there was a range of other options that would have been less destructive and cheaper — Peter on The distance we’ve come in 25 years

The Battery Park Resiliency Project is a very necessary floodwater management project that has been fully approved. This exact same fight, with a similar cast of characters happened on the east side of lower Manhattan. The result will be the same. — harryh on The distance we’ve come in 25 years

https://tribecacitizen.com/2026/06/01/an-renewed-effort-to-save-battery-park-citys-trees/ — Tribeca Citizen on The distance we’ve come in 25 years

Would've had to have been kept quiet. NYPD/other agencies wouldn't be able to identify unrelated drones in a flock of nearly 3,000 - and that would've introduced a serious risk to the public. — JT on Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?

I want to add, like Vickery Eckhoff said, the Lutnick photo is pretty telling. Another person uploaded a pretty normal video on Instagram putting the drone show directly next to the Staten Island ferry. They filmed from the the upper floor and the drones where right there. over the water (on the other side of the the governors island ferry). I'm not Captain Disillusion, for me those videos looked real. There are also at least two videos filmed from moving cars showing the event. Pretty real looking to me. I'm still perplexed of why this was not advertised or at the very least was done on 9/11 when people naturally remember the event. — M on Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?

Does anyone have the count of trees in the Battery and Battery Park City that have been felled for the "flood abatement" project? I believe in the end it will be over 500. I would count that as the opposite of progress. — Heide Fasnacht on The distance we’ve come in 25 years

I found this article by googling "New York drone show fake?" It's really a very weird situation. These drone shows are never announced but are always promoted in hindsight on social media. Judging from the videos, the alleged drone show was filmed from either a boat or Jersey City over downtown Manhattan. Thus if this was an art project, they would've had to close down a large area in lower Manhattan. Imagine if just one drone fails and causes damage and or injury. An art project like this, cannot be done without NYPD. So, you should not only have seen the show, but the barriers and NYPD blocking the area, like they did for the Knicks games, Knicks parade, Taylor Swift's wedding etc. My guess is this is complete fake and digital art, but not designated as such. Another option, if we give them the benefit of the doubt, is they put up a handful of drones at a time and did a long exposure, so the silhouettes were only visible on film when composed together or they needed a few drones to place the city in 3D space and then painted the rest in. I also tried to see it here: https://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/statueofliberty/?cam=liberty_hd Nothing of the drone show, but the frequency is too low to rule it out. Finally, If this had been announced New Yorkers would've been there even at 3am. The city is big enough that there are always people that are crazy enough to show up and camp out. — M on Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?

Very curious. Were news outlets informed and kept quiet or were they not informed? It's also hard to find what time the show actually went on. No news outlets now commenting on it are showing when it started or ended. It seems there were two flights of 15 minutes each (though don't quote me on that) that ran an hour apart. The NYC skyline was completely dark at 8:47, so it prob started around then. Howard Lutnick was a funder; he was photographed with his wife (in blue jeans) in front of a window at the tip of Manhattan so prob not a commemorative event, just something private for the family. I get he lost a brother and many employees. But there's something about commandeering public space for private reflection that was perhaps "healing" for a few people, but simply dismissive of many others. — Vickery Eckhoff on Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?

It evidently was an art project- I wish that I had seen it!!! — Merle Temkin on Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?

It IS sort of weird, but remember that drone shows are often constructed so you can only make out the pattern from one particular viewing point. Also, given the number of drones and the security around lower Manhattan at 9/11 time, it's likely that a show like this would have to be done away from the city itself, probably over NY Harbor. So I can imagine this being done by (rich) donors for viewing from a spot (Liberty Island?) and for video in a way that nobody in our neighborhood would have seen it or recognized the intended pattern. — J on Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?

Thanks for covering this. It's so very strange! — malcolm on Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?