Yesterday seemed an apt day for a stroll around the long-resurrecting World Trade Center. If you haven't visited in a while, you'll be surprised at the sense of place that now exists there. / 9 comments
Plus: Downtown services lag behind population growth; female impersonators attempt theft; White Street renovations; West and Chambers in 1936; midcentury Jewish designers; Planned Parenthood moving to FiDi; teenagers attack newsstand owner; Seaport tower.
Plus: $104 million and ten years to fix Pier 40; Battery Park City mail facility to close; 40 Worth storefront play; tax relief for yacht owners. / 3 comments
There's not a whole lot of excitement: Battery Park City's Chipotle, Amada restaurant at Brookfield Place, the Peck Slip boutique hotel, cabaret license for Haus, mysterious Front Street liquor license.... / 3 comments
Plus: Incessant beeping from City Hall; AT&T's refusal to regularly open the Thomas Street plaza; UPS truck behaving badly; northwest Tribeca demolition; China Blue loading dock; three landmarks looking good. / 2 comments
Know where this was shot? Prove it. / 2 comments
Plus: Menus for the market and the Beaubourg restaurant; electeds meet with Battery Park City Authority about ignoring locals; more guilty pleas from bikers in 2013 assault; fat pets.
Plus: A meadow in Battery Park City; update on Houseman restaurant; emerging designers at the Seaport; report on jazz concert at David Gage String Instruments; 1st Precinct meeting. / 6 comments
It could be taller than 1 World Trade Center. Plus: Opposition to an American Flatbread event space; "Soft Spin" at Brookfield Place; affordable housing update; demolition photo. / 5 comments
Coming soon, or at least someday, to the N. Moore space currently occupied by Lotus Salon.
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?