The combined garden and plaza will have an elevated wooden platform, a new entrance in the northeast, better lighting, and egg-shaped seats that reference the neighborhood's history as the butter-and-egg district. / 6 comments
Stylish shops and restaurants, decaying industrial buildings, plenty of street art, young people.... It's everything you want from an afternoon in mid-gentrification Brooklyn. / 3 comments
Plus: White Street restaurant opening dates; 30 Park Place penthouse floor plans; hope for quieting the ferry horns; another Diane von Furstenberg store; Anna Deavere Smith.
Plus: Half of New Amsterdam Market's board resigned; affordable housing initiatives; 9/11 spreadsheet rediscovered; Seaport ship update; R train tunnel may reopen early; cyclist hit-and-run; Jane Pratt. / 2 comments
Plus: Saturday lunch at Brushstroke; September 11 street closures and parking; Lilly O'Briens opened in its new space; more Big Belly recycling units downtown; ink on paper. / 3 comments
Plus: Don Hill's is being reborn; why the WTC Transportation Hub is a mess; the war over the WTC's Tower 5, a.k.a. the old Deutsche Bank site; ambulances dawdling on way to Battery Park City; Alex Birkenstock. / 3 comments
Plus: Hamptons fitness studio opening in Tribeca; Park Place tower and Islamic museum progressing; shirt of bin Laden's killer to go on display; men's swimwear at Brookfield Place; Alexander Wang; new FiDi Greenmarkets. / 1 comment
Plus: Watch it from the 9/11 Memorial this year; nail salon's move confirmed; the second Juice Press looks close; TV show "Forever" shooting here; Telepan Local ditches small plates; cheeseburger praise; new Warren Street bar; Senegalese choir; free preparedness stuff. / 1 comment
Plus: Four dead bodies have washed up in the Hudson lately; downtown's newest "tallest residential skyscraper"; suggested Fashion Week hangouts; Gateway Plaza lawsuit. / 1 comment
Unfortunately this is true about virtually every public works project in the city. Take a walk around all of the... — Reademan / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City
This bagel Baedeker doesn't even include the ubiquitous food carts that vend breakfast essentials, including - say it - bagels.... — Gary / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Don’t ask me how I have this connection, but I’ve spoken to the construction manager 1:1 before (he didn't know... — Upset BPC Resident / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City
Thank you for the article about the move of our primary retail and repair business, Finlay and Gage, from Tribeca... — Judy Epstein Gage / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood
True North Tribeca! https://www.instagram.com/truenorthtribeca — James Bogardus / North Bar is closing for the summer — and will reopen as something new
It looks like an Ess-a-bagel is coming the Murray. The bagel wars continue!! — Reademan / Modern Bread & Bagel is open
I loved walking by on Chambers, seeing all the instruments and folks working on them. It’s a reminder of what... — freya / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood