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
Plus: Work in the former Almond restaurant space; Artists & Fleas opening a 10,000-square-foot Soho store; illegal intercity bus activity; World Trade Center pedestrian plaza; no Community Board 1 recap.
Chinatown residents have persuaded the NYPD's 5th Precinct to do something about the pervasive problem. But is the solution replicable here? / 6 comments
Plus: Tribeca Greenmarket to sell cloth produce bags; Bill Murray and Billy Collins at the Poets House's annual Brooklyn Bridge walk; Citi's glass house; "Law & Order: SVU" shoot. / 4 comments
Plus: The candidates vying for Margaret Chin's City Council seat; the pros and cons of film/TV shoots.
Sounds promising. How much power does such a BID have? Could it actually do something to clear out the illicit... — Marcus / New group to explore the potential of a Tribeca Business Improvement District
I’m officially a senior citizen and I have to tell you if me and my buddies from the Bronx had... — John Gallagher / Carjacking on North Moore has a happy ending…
Blame those in charge, including our mayor. Mamdani pledged support for NYC street vendors. Now they’re facing a crackdown. https://gothamist.com/news/mamdani-pledged-support-for-nyc-street-vendors-now-theyre-facing-a-crackdown... — Marcus / In the News: More on the counterfeit vendors of Canal Street
UN report on counterfeiting and organized crime: https://www.unodc.org/toc/en/crimes/counterfeit-goods.html — Marcus / In the News: More on the counterfeit vendors of Canal Street
Society has lost its mind letting people walk around outdoors with masks on as if it's not obviously insanely suspicious.... — person / Carjacking on North Moore has a happy ending…
I'm okay with extra reinforcing, recalling what happened at Pfizer's residential conversion on 42nd Street. Demolition could have been dusty... — Gary / Construction Update: 101 Franklin / 250 Church
I am curious how they came to the decision to rehabilitate the existing structure rather than just tear it down.... — Reademan / Construction Update: 101 Franklin / 250 Church