The most interesting structure at the new World Trade Center is about to get a lot more interesting. (Are we calling them horns? Or would spikes or quills might be more appropriate...?) / 4 comments
Plus: The view from atop 1 World Trade Center; is Park51 moving?; PATH platform critique; Well + Good profile; Battery Park City's cold war; Hotel Particulier pop-up gallery; no school "collocation."
Plus: Tribeca gym owner tells of racial taunts while a police diver; Gateway Plaza residents mobilizing; custom perfumer on Franklin; big plans for a FiDi building; Bogardus Plaza.
Plus: Temporary boiler on Thomas; a Whole Foods gripe; Sole di Capri suggestion; DAIN street-art exhibit.
Plus: Five R stations getting renovated; Hudson storefront mystery (and availability); is 443 Greenwich stalled?; eating pizza for charity; 87 Leonard update. / 2 comments
Plus: Biker-gang beatdown charges; inside glorious 5 Beekman; west Soho hotel to have rooftop bar; Seamless scam update; affordable housing in Hudson Square; heated sidewalks. / 6 comments
But it's only for three months (or so they say...). UPDATE: It's just one block, so you can probably not get too worried about this. / 2 comments
The Statue of Liberty, as body parts. Plus: Indian-Chinese food; Brooklyn Robot Foundry soft opening; Juice Press getting close?; half-marathon street closures; sidewalk damage.
"No activity since the last summer. The interior appears nearly complete (or as complete as it was last summer). It surprises me that no one has swooped in to buy it and finish the job." —A.
Plus: Ruben's Empandas has closed; salon rumor; Four Seasons construction update; Battery Dance Company event; Russell Simmons on meditation. / 4 comments
A glamorous new platform at the World Trade Center PATH station opened yesterday.
"The new sanitation building has panels on the south side. It looked like they can rotate which made me think they were solar. An angry-looking construction worker barked that they were 'solar sheets.'" —Tony
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?
Very curious. Were news outlets informed and kept quiet or were they not informed? It's also hard to find what... — Vickery Eckhoff / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?