Plus: Wichcraft's new branding revealed; fireworks off Battery Park tonight; activity in former Bond real estate office; Hudson Yards tower visible in the distance; Blue in Green expansion; Walker Street retail space; "Law & Order: SVU" yet again. / 5 comments
Plus: Prices slashed at Battery Park City community center; Tribeca dog on TV; Vietnam Memorial restoration; how to make Khe-Yo's Bang Bang Sauce. / 1 comment
Plus: The Battery Park City Authority spends a lot of money with no competitive bidding; a Hawaiian canoe is visiting the area in June. / 3 comments
Discussed at last night's meeting: Start date for the five-year Worth Street reconstruction; whether to give 70 Vestry 33 more private parking spaces; Two Hands sidewalk tables; Five Boro Bike Tour street closures; several event permits; Wichcraft and Chipotle liquor licenses; the Flea update. / 3 comments
Plus: Another no-restaurant food-delivery service in FiDi; Almanac restaurant is closing; a classic correction about the recent Odeon article; man whacks woman with his cane; legislation to restrict ticket vendors. / 9 comments
Plus: Good and bad news for the Collect Pond Park hawks; new tenant for a former nail salon; Peter Agron's photography at Soho Photo; Rosemarie Castoro exhibit at Hal Bromm Gallery.
Let's get that tip hardened! Plus: Jean-Georges Vongerichten gets to blackball other Seaport District restaurants; Q&A with the Republican candidate for Sheldon Silver's former seat; downtown construction office getting closed.
Plus: A Tribe Called Quest at the Square Diner in 1993; another vacate order; Robert Janz animal sculptures; meeting of the Financial District Neighborhood Association; "Atel" shoot tomorrow. / 2 comments
Plus: Open studios at the New York Academy of Art; "Ghostbusters" celebration at the Tribeca Film Festival street fair; shoots for "Elementary" and "Everyone Speaks Food"; those Apt. 5 umbrellas. / 1 comment
Plus: Burglary at Estancia 460; Santander Bank robbery; actor interviewed at Sushi Azabu; the race for Sheldon Silver's seat is a weird one; how the Tribeca Film Festival is going way beyond film. / 1 comment
Plus: 1 World Trade Center carpet; FedEx Office store is moving; "Law & Order: SVU" is back yet again; work by Japanese emerging artists. / 1 comment
There's a push to give the publicly accessible arcades along Water Street back to the buildings' owners in exchange for improvements to nearby plazas. After I first posted about it, the Downtown Alliance responded with a defense—to which Community Advocates for Public Space has now sent a rebuttal. / 7 comments
This argument is a bit circular isn’t it? What was “very necessary” about destroying a neighborhood (as is apparent to... — Peter / The distance we’ve come in 25 years
The Battery Park Resiliency Project is a very necessary floodwater management project that has been fully approved. This exact same... — harryh / The distance we’ve come in 25 years
https://tribecacitizen.com/2026/06/01/an-renewed-effort-to-save-battery-park-citys-trees/ — Tribeca Citizen / The distance we’ve come in 25 years
Would've had to have been kept quiet. NYPD/other agencies wouldn't be able to identify unrelated drones in a flock of... — JT / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
I want to add, like Vickery Eckhoff said, the Lutnick photo is pretty telling. Another person uploaded a pretty normal... — M / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
Does anyone have the count of trees in the Battery and Battery Park City that have been felled for the... — Heide Fasnacht / The distance we’ve come in 25 years
I found this article by googling "New York drone show fake?" It's really a very weird situation. These drone shows... — M / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?