It's exceedingly easy. What kind of lessons are we teaching here, people? / 2 comments
Plus: New condo buildings doing well; Battery Park City ground-rent deal; real-estate statistics; David Bouley reworking Bouley; teenager struck by 4WTC rod; more. UPDATE: FiDi's Hello Pasta closed.
Plus: Reade57 timeline; Soul Daddy review; Liberty Green aims high on the rents; Governors Island cat; Vesey crosswalk; Pace's new building.
Plus: Whole Foods' new kids' play area; Chambers construction update; anyone know a good shoe repair place? [Updated with information on the funeral for Ralph Cummings.]
Know where this was shot? Say so in the comments. [Update: Damn, Smithers is good.] / 3 comments
...at Greenwich and Reade. Plus: Finn Square sculpture debuts; Cinco de Mayo restaurant Epifaneo; wine discount; Juliana Hatfield and Fountains of Wayne among the acts coming to City Winery. / 2 comments
Plus: Time to stop calling it "Ground Zero"; $64 million lawsuit over mold; farm pests; delays at West Thames Park; CB1 feels left out. / 1 comment
Plus: Downtown's tourism and baby boom; Obama coming for 10-year anniversary of 9/11; fashion designer moving office to W. Broadway; Soul Daddy review; new Thai fast food in FiDi; Chef Boyardee's kin; Sol Le Witt exhibit; hunting artists. / 2 comments
From L.A. chain Sprinkles. UPDATE: Or not. Plus: President Obama to visit the WTC site; Ted Danson; One Rector Park sales report; Edward Burns's latest film reviewed; Theater Bar cocktail school. / 1 comment
Plus: Conservative pundit in FiDi; California's lieutenant governor; Holland Tunnel foot chase; the Seaport's Next Chain Restaurant; City Hall bike path.
Bravo!! — Queens Girl / Catching up with Adger Cowans on his 90th birthday
Beautiful story and interview. Thank you so much for posting. It’s a privilege Learning about our artistic neighbors. Looking forward... — DSSA / Catching up with Adger Cowans on his 90th birthday
Relative to other parts of the city FiDi has comparatively little green space, let alone trees on the streets. Further,... — Heide Fasnacht / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
A lot of NIMBYism in these comments. Financial district is basically the birthplace of the skyscraper, has always been crowded,... — Cd / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
One solution to the lack of common areas and too much traffic: close streets to cars/trucks permanently, and convert them... — Ben / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
Typo: before 2010 (not 2020) — stm / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
Before 2020, the area was still mostly office (personally I would not describe as moribund) and actually less traffic. There... — stm / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold