City Winery lines up stars for its four-night Haiti benefit • Is The Smyth hotel in trouble? • Tribeca doorman in the news • Bad news for local skateboarders • And more
Chelsea Clinton leads a Haiti benefit at SoulCycle • Tribeca all over the news • Fun new art installation on Church • Spielberg on WTC redevelopment? • And much more
Youth in Revolt • Fish Tank • The Last Station • The Book of Eli • Police, Adjective • Plus a bunch of interesting oldies, including Showgirls, Muppets Take Manhattan (sing-along!), a crazy 1977 Japanese cult flick called House, and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.
"You know good work when you see it," said Tribeca Film Festival executive director Nancy Schafer when I asked how her team went about choosing documentaries for its new series, Tribeca Cinemas Presents: Doc Series. "You know engaging stories when you see them."
Photographer Chris Zedano spent two years shooting portraits of interesting characters on Staple Street—and the results are marvelous (even if they make Tribeca look more like Williamsburg...). / 3 comments
Meetings and readings and screenings, plus comedy, music, wine tastings and more. It'll be a blast—literally, if you're anywhere near the WTC tomorrow. / 1 comment
East River waterfront renovation • Shake Shack near City Hall? • Obscenely expensive apartments being bought again • Jake Gyllenhaal! Matt Dillon! Susan Sarandon! • Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits! • Warren Street two-way once again in BPC • And more
Photographer Asha Agnish captured the first big snow of the season: “I went out about 9 a.m. this morning. The plows had already been through and several buildings had already cleared their sections of sidewalk. But there were many snowbanks left to maneuver around—and through. I met an officer walking one of the horses from […] / 1 comment
“I’ve been drawn to shore lines and urban decay and renewal sites since I arrived in NYC in 1979,” says Jose Gaytan, who will be showing some of his photography at Kaffe 1668 starting tomorrow in an exhibit titled The West Side Story (Below 14th Street), 1983–2009. “I was a runner during the 80’s and to […] / 2 comments
Furniture store Room is moving to N. Moore • Let's make art! • Damon Dash's party is over • "Tribute in Light" for two more years • City Winery shows
Buy your tickets now: It's a big weekend, with Avatar, Up in the Air, The Hurt Locker, Crazy Heart, Invictus, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, and Black Dynamite all in area theaters.
all sorts of things could be done to the entrance/exit ramp to the Manh bridge.This is def one of the... — jfrankp / Canal Street ranks as one of city’s deadliest
There needs to be an MTA crosstown bus route added on Canal Street. As for widening sidewalks, likely just more... — stm / Canal Street ranks as one of city’s deadliest
But there is space Wall Street and south - that should be target if building housing — stm / Seen & Heard: Big reno for east side of Pace campus
Yes I use those other subways plus bus. Do you use 2/3? The platform is already dangerous — stm / Seen & Heard: Big reno for east side of Pace campus
Relax. This building isn't in Tribeca. (Although the developer will market it as Tribeca.) — Thomas Hagen / Construction Update: 65 Franklin
Housing — Aaron CHRISTENSEN / 25 Water is now SoMA, and a lottery has begun on affordable units
No offense, but you do understand that this building is on Broadway, right? There are buildings that tall and taller... — mulciber / Construction Update: 65 Franklin