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
Plus: Bag of brown, gunky fluid on N. Moore; 88 Leonard retail space; 28 N. Moore conversion drawings; "Where in Tribeca...?" hint. / 4 comments
Plans have been filed for an eleven-story building at 67 Vestry. / 3 comments
Plus: JCP Downtown's Purim carnival; Ann Hood and Rick Moody at Pen Parentis; sloppy crosswalks.
Plus: Tribeca Meet & Greet; community rebuilding meetings; Landmarc's tenth anniversary; 56 Leonard crane. / 1 comment
Plus: Ice keeps falling off World Trade Center buildings; City Hall restaurant building sold; a week of Brookfield Place jackhammering; police blotter.
Plus: Drama at the UPS Store; dates for the Tribeca Family Festival and Cercle Rouge's Bastille Day party; crane switcheroo at 56 Leonard. / 3 comments
The one-story brick building on West between Canal and Spring has been demolished. Soon taking its place: the crystalline Spring Street Salt Shed, complete with "glazed moat." / 4 comments
Plus: Checking in on 56 Leonard; Tutto il Giorno progress report; 1 World Trade Center's spire; FiDi construction report. / 2 comments
Plus: Canal Room has closed (and work has started on its replacement); Garbage Garage almost done being glassed; Krappy Kamera contest winners; 279 Church's facelift. / 3 comments
This Streetsblog post is over 4 years old, with no clear update since then. I see the Tribeca Trib also... — Elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Eliz, I tried to make clear my disgust and disdain for placard abuse. I validated your outrage at the top... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
https://tribecacitizen.com/2026/06/17/icymi-the-speed-limit-is-now-20-mph/ — Tribeca Citizen / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Ah yes, the city was given permission to lower limits, I just didn't know that Chambers had gotten the treatment... — malcolm / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
If free and easy on-street parking isn't compatible with lower Manhattan, then why is it available to city workers? The... — Elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Apparently the speed limit is now 20. No one would ever know that since the street is usually backed up... — elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Sorry, your lone justifiable outrage IMO is that cops, firemen, court officers and other apparatchiks get free parking spaces. We... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses