Plus: Cast-iron cookware for sale at Best Made; Joe's World Trade Center café got pushed back; Community Board 1 endorses closing a street for the new school.
Also on Community Board 1's May agendas: Plans for White Street restaurant and Santos Party House; Hubert Street parking; Warren Street Dog Run; big new building on Canal; Brooklyn Bridge concession; sidewalk café on Chambers; much more. / 4 comments
Plus: New building on Greenwich revealed; crossing guards on West Street; the design firm responsible for the Four Seasons plaza; Poem in Your Pocket Day at Poets House; 1st Precinct community meeting tonight; private tea pop-up. / 7 comments
Plus: Plans for a steak restaurant on Murray; Montauk Sofa is making a permanent move to the neighborhood; suspects sought in Battery shooting. / 3 comments
Plus: Yesterday's shooting near the Battery was a dispute between ticket sellers; UFO sighting over Tribeca in 2011; Anne Frank Center averaged six visitors a day; state-sponsored spirit shop at Pier A. / 4 comments
Plus: Man reported shot near the Battery; El Chapo is complaining with prison conditions. / 7 comments
Plus: A pop-up in the former American Flatbread; what's new at Taste of Tribeca this year; FiDi gelato shop is coming back to life; the Christmas season is officially over. / 4 comments
Plus: CVS rumored for Hudson Street; union members wielding air horns; Tetsu menu items previewed; Starbucks at the World Trade Center mall; Downtown Community Center introduces Glide Fit classes; Sapar Contemporary group show. / 7 comments
Plus: Community Board 1 votes against four street fairs (but allows its own); film attendance is down at the Tribeca Film Festival; hope for two-way tolls on the Verrazano Bridge; the life of a food-cart vendor. / 16 comments
Plus: Peeking inside the restaurant coming to the Cercle Rouge space; best-ever use of a sidewalk shed; American Apparel's Soho store looks iffy; state senator Daniel Squadron's community convention.
Plus: Parking-placard vigilante; a brief placard census in Tribeca; 12 Warren neighbor lashes out online; Soo Im Lee at Art Projects International; checking in on the new building at Canal and Greene. / 10 comments
Plus: Exhibit of work by Tribeca photographer Jeffrey Shagawat; a lament about the 1st Precinct's park-anywhere philosophy; Starbucks tries programming; TV shoot today. / 2 comments
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