Plus: Zesty new brickwork at the Roxy; the Battery Park City Authority decides to pass on public commenting; one-day Alexander Hamilton exhibit; preliminary design for one of the new buildings at Chambers and Church; physical therapy facility. / 1 comment
Sushi chef Eiji Ichimura is leaving the Bouley empire and striking out on his own; Sole di Capri had big aspirations for a sidewalk cafe; David Bouley showed up to talk about Bouley Botanical; a bar we'll be hearing about next month.
Plus: Phone snatched through restaurant window; new restaurants Le Coucou and Chikarashi; ticket vendors forced out of the Battery are now plaguing nearby streets. / 2 comments
Plus: Jewelry boutique has second thoughts about opening here; romantic comedy shoot; ugly benches for the Broadway bus bulb; fiery Franklin façade. / 1 comment
Plus: A tall Tribecan; Battery Park City tween on Broadway; what to do about a pothead neighbor; the changing downtown skyline; Community Board 1 votes against Raccoon Lodge spinoff; breakfast coming to two Tribeca elementary schools. / 1 comment
Plus: Atop 1 World Trade Center at night; parents want to sacrifice pre-K for a gym; phone thefts get more violent; the owners of a Tribeca pied-à-terre; Polynesian canoe visiting here. / 3 comments
Plus: The economics of film festivals; Wyeth and its owner, John Birch; hit-and-run driver to face prison time; looking back at the city's first railroad line; push-polling incident gets weirder. / 1 comment
Plus: A peek inside the Beekman hotel's atrium (and update on the restaurants); discounted co-ed classes this Sunday at Aqua; Margaret Chin responds to push-poll incident; light sculpture at Patrick Parrish. / 5 comments
Plus: Kid gets head stuck in fence; possible home for the "Sphere"; visitors to World Trade Center observatory far below forecast; FiDi arcade proponents deny posing as councilmember; Wavertree returning early; subsidizing artists.
Also on Community Board 1's June agendas: Duane Street eviction and demolition; Pier 26 update; closing part of Peck Slip to traffic; new Park Row tower; the neverending film/TV/ad shoots; Barleycorn liquor license change; more.
Plus: Condo plans for the former Pearl Paint buildings; Combina restaurant closed; who was behind the arcade plan push-polling; Cadillac café to be run by Joe Coffee; anti-Semitic graffiti.
Plus: Sweetgreen will no longer serve bacon or sriracha; sleazy "push-poll" technique used by arcade plan supporter; why 3 World Trade Center is being built that way; Wounded Warriors to roast a pig in front of a FiDi mosque; why you shouldn't rob someone on an escalator; other thefts. / 3 comments
Not surprised to see anyone opposed to Momdani called out as a "racist" by elite Tribecans with luxury beliefs. — lowrider / Mamdani wins mayoral race; Cuomo takes Tribeca
No, but all indications are that you either think class and race or the same thing or don't know what... — Talg / Mamdani wins mayoral race; Cuomo takes Tribeca
I, for one, am excited to see a mayor-elect who clearly loves the city, recognizes what makes it work, and... — malcolm / Mamdani wins mayoral race; Cuomo takes Tribeca
I started exploring Tribeca in the late 1970's and began working here full time in 1980. I remember the old... — Gary / Books of Tribeca: New Art, Old Buildings: Stories from Hal Bromm’s Tribeca
Not a race. Just a bunch of folks who are way too entitled — Don / Mamdani wins mayoral race; Cuomo takes Tribeca
Happy to be moving out of our Tribeca loft after 46 years. This neighborhood has become toxic after starting out... — Don / Mamdani wins mayoral race; Cuomo takes Tribeca
You think rich people are a race don’t you? — Cd / Mamdani wins mayoral race; Cuomo takes Tribeca