Plus: More details on Harold's Meat & Three and Tom Colicchio's Fowler & Wells; politicians get behind FiDi rent-stabilization fight; bad news for the Pier 40 air-rights deal; City Vineyard review; scenes from the new mall. / 6 comments
Plus: Battery Park City cinema getting recliner seats; video from inside the Kanye West pop-up; a peek from inside the Beekman hotel; helping the homeless woman outside Best Market. / 15 comments
Plus: Kanye West pop-up was a dud; Battery Maritime Building redevelopment remains stalled; politician ditches community forum for a fundraiser. / 1 comment
(I don't know.) Plus: Church Publick is going on summer vacation; the search for good vegan pizza around here; unintentional art on Chambers; Babesta in a Netflix show. / 10 comments
Plus: New entrances to the R train at the World Trade Center; Thomas Street closure on Sunday; Warby Parker pop-up; Le Pain Quotidien in Battery Park City said to be opening this week; "Law & Order: SVU" is back yet again. / 10 comments
Plus: Alleged gigolo headquartered in FiDi; Black Tap's big new basement dining room; more on the new mall; the history of 6 Stone Street.
Plus: A French magazine profiles a FiDi loft; tally of open stores at the World Trade Center mall; inside 60 Hudson. / 5 comments
To go along with the debut of the World Trade Center mall, the street-level entrances to the Oculus have been opened, along with the dramatic pedestrian plaza along the north side. / 5 comments
Plus: Virtual tour of the Four Seasons hotel; Tribeca Film Festival dates; World Trade Center mall postcard; anti-TriBeCa petition; Robert Reitzfeld paintings at Front Art Space. / 1 comment
Plus: 9/11-linked cancer rate has tripled; assessing last weekend's Shared Streets event; Le District review; another swipe at Tribeca; Avenue of the Americas plaques. / 4 comments
Plus: PATH buses running through Tribeca; Chinatown buses illegally dropping off passengers here; Lilly O'Brien's grade from the Department of Health; lunch at Eataly's fancier restaurant; poop scofflaw. / 16 comments
Plus: Shared Streets led to traffic jams elsewhere; Eataly's convoluted layout; new branding for Lotus Salon; intra-city buses dropping off on Varick. / 5 comments
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