Plus: Condo plans for the former Pearl Paint buildings; Combina restaurant closed; who was behind the arcade plan push-polling; Cadillac café to be run by Joe Coffee; anti-Semitic graffiti.
Plus: Sweetgreen will no longer serve bacon or sriracha; sleazy "push-poll" technique used by arcade plan supporter; why 3 World Trade Center is being built that way; Wounded Warriors to roast a pig in front of a FiDi mosque; why you shouldn't rob someone on an escalator; other thefts. / 3 comments
Plus: Fergie is headlining the gay pride dance; the best birthday party idea for DIY kids; Spring Studios marketing itself as event venue; ferry companies' relationships with those questionable ticket sellers at the Battery.
Plus: Aesop's Tribeca store is open; two run-ins with mentally ill people; Worth Street reconstruction will be even worse than suspected; vague parade signage; 1st Precinct Community Council meeting; two shoots. / 9 comments
Plus: New design for the Hubert Street mansion; North Cove Marina tenants unhappy with new management; Park Place tower funding, details; illegal ticket vendors arrested; FiDi sidewalk shed relief; Broad Street tower to be second tallest building in Lower Manhattan. / 2 comments
Plus: Battery Park City nanny and toddler disappear, then return; this weekend's obstacle course on Pier 26; Café Altro Paradiso review; a peek inside the new Wyeth showroom; resident urges Battery Park City Authority to think green.
Plus: A split at Tutto Il Giorno; vending machine staffer has coins stolen; review of a bar called the Ship. / 7 comments
Plus: Man detained for loitering around Taylor Swift's building; crane accident widow sues city for $600 million; Community Board 1 calls for the return of the Seaport Working Group.
Plus: New ferry service to increase air pollution; Sheldon Silver sentenced; more thefts; Carson Street clothing shop is closing; outdoor seating at the new Le Pain Quotidien in Battery Park City; R & Company exhibits. / 4 comments
Plus: Falcon eggs hatching in FiDi; 70 Pine retail signage gets quashed by Landmarks; two thefts (including a wallet from a Whole Foods cart and a Citi Bike, somehow); "Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie." / 1 comment
Plus: Frank Gehry owns an apartment at 8 Spruce; Community Board 1 chief not seeking re-election; the next race for Sheldon Silver's former seat; a local chef's spiritual guides; WeWork and 110 Wall and de Blasio payments; theft at Hale and Hearty. / 1 comment
Here's the menu. Plus: Kitchens at 70 Vestry will have four ovens (and many will have two washing machines); results of a survey of people who hire nannies; Houseman's kitchen-swap with a Savannah restaurant; man pulled from car and attacked. / 1 comment
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