Plus: New completion date for the West Thames Bridge; thief steals $1,026 in hair-care products from Duane Reade.
Discussed at last night's meeting: Citigroup's renovation, both the noise and how it involves cutting down 32 trees; Sweetgreen's sidewalk seating; mariachis at Mariachi's new space; temporary sculpture at Finn Square; the Flea's new theater; Pier 26; Downtown Boathouse; and the Tribeca Meet & Greet.
Plus: Funding for design of the World Trade Center performing arts center; painting of Franklin Street of yore; "high-energy Pilates" coming to Soho; recap of Lower Manhattan's food-related future; crossing guards.
Plus: Hearings about helicopter noise; food drive at Tribeca Tap House; Pen Parentis holiday soirée; the Horticultural Society's Green Bean Holiday Bash.
Plus: $136,000 worth of art held hostage in gallery seized by marshals; NYPD says it'll assign cops as crossing guards; the fake restaurant problem on Seamless and GrubHub.
Plus: This trend of parking half on the sidewalk; Lot 77 café appears to have closed; architecture critic Paul Goldberger; toy drive; exhibit of city-inspired art. / 2 comments
Plus: The floor plan for the Eataly at 4 World Trade Center; street-cart vendor robbed at knifepoint; testing out City Pole; anti-helicopter rally; Soho mural at risk; Tribeca Grill anniversary party.
Plus: Exhibit of dog photography; a Café Noir sister restaurant also closed; memories of 102 Charlton; town hall on MTA bus service. / 2 comments
Plus: More on the Battery Park City Authority's decision to change up its security force; Steven Alan sample sale starts this week; new Spanish-Israeli restaurant opens Saturday.
Plus: Antiqueria's big warehouse sale; the Rockwell Group's light installation at Brookfield Place; post-mortem on Laughing Man's parklet; Café Noir seized by marshal; It's My Park Day at Washington Market Park. / 14 comments
Plus: Battery Park City Authority agrees to meet with its constituency; Brazilian café opening in the Seaport; cruise ship U-turn last night; the dance troupe at City Hall Park. / 8 comments
Plus: Stalled café on Worth; autumn at the Greenmarket; demolition of brick strip on Leonard; forum on birds killed by our glass skyline; a Bentley for toddlers; exhibit at Steven Amedee Gallery.
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?