Plus: 15 Leonard renderings and pricing; a jeweler's note to a burglar; creepy theft at the Gehry building; Park Row real estate; Pier 17 lawsuit; "Divergent" director. / 2 comments
Plus: Developer charged with apartment building not being ADA-compliant; Battery Park City Authority sues banks; repairing pilings.
Plus: Inside jeweler Gillian Steinhardt's studio; City Winery opening in other cities; should 3 World Trade Center get another $1.2 billion in subsidies?; Battery Park City Authority's charitable spending. / 4 comments
"Do you know? I've been seeing them everywhere." —N. / 6 comments
Plus: Break-in at jewelry store; restaurateur who was the Ivory Snow baby; 288 West analysis.
Plus: People are getting a little cavalier with their luxury goods; Neapolitan pizza on Wall Street; Barry's Bootcamp opening in Noho.
Discussed last night: Mea culpa from Spring Studios; 56 Leonard's noisy hoist (plus, a timetable for the construction); Megu's troublesome parties; Hudson River Park security; Saleya and Los Americanos. / 1 comment
Plus: Big development at 111 Washington and 55 Broad; ultra-Orthodox Jews protest being included in Israeli draft; Ian Schrager and Herzog & de Meuron; BPC tilting toward owners, not renters; "Downtown North."
Plus: Atheists appeal 9/11 "cross" ruling; role play for would-be community board members; inside ad agency Havas's offices; Bob Townley on after-school funding; new restaurant from Trattoria Cinque founder. / 1 comment
Plus: Man lying on subway tracks is killed; apparent suicide near City Hall; Tribeca resident Vanessa Traina Snow; Duane and Greenwich in 1932; police blotter; Soho shop Kiosk is moving somewhere; 50 West update.
I grew up in a neighborhood with basement bagel, bakeries, long, narrow, bagel, ovens, bagelmeister’s, who really knew their craft.... — A. / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
In our house the cart bagels are what we call "cake bagels", barely 1 step up from Lender's frozen bagels.... — Nicole Vianna / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
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