Plus: A profile of Nili Lotan; subway mugging at knifepoint; FEMA funds for Asphalt Green storm damage.
Plus: Body found off Battery Park; sticky fingers at the Issey Miyake store; another barre studio; a sad flip at 79 Laight; another FiDi building to try and woo tech sector; inside 4WTC offices.
Plus: Part of New York Fashion Week to be held in the area; checking the progress of the Battery Maritime Hotel and Mykonos-style restaurant; the Patriot's sister bar; FiDi residents vs. FedEx ramp. / 3 comments
Plus: Banker sued for Airbnb-ing his rent-stabilized loft; Harvey Weinstein gets off; Irish Hunger Memorial architect to lead a tour.
Plus: 1 World Trade Center observatory getting close to opening; longtime Tribeca artists' lofts; Salvatore Ferragano opens tomorrow at Brookfield Place; Park51 aggravates another landlord. / 1 comment
Plus: Downtown services lag behind population growth; female impersonators attempt theft; White Street renovations; West and Chambers in 1936; midcentury Jewish designers; Planned Parenthood moving to FiDi; teenagers attack newsstand owner; Seaport tower.
Plus: $104 million and ten years to fix Pier 40; Battery Park City mail facility to close; 40 Worth storefront play; tax relief for yacht owners. / 3 comments
Plus: Menus for the market and the Beaubourg restaurant; electeds meet with Battery Park City Authority about ignoring locals; more guilty pleas from bikers in 2013 assault; fat pets.
Plus: New pre-kindergarten seats; Community Board 1 weighs in on Chase Manhattan Plaza proposal; new Seaport fashion boutique; FiDi bike mugging; Little Park review; when parking spaces become parklets; Orlando Bloom. / 6 comments
Plus: Rich young man; bike-gang cop rejects plea; extended-stay hotels in FiDi to get "trendy" restaurants; Battery Park City ball fields; Terroir's Murray Hill outpost is closing; Santiago Calatrava.
Plus: A foundation flips an apartment on Worth; disgruntled restaurant employee attacked the chef with a fork; Bon Appétit's test kitchen. / 2 comments
Plus: New renderings of the storm-protection berm; Seaport group makes a counterproposal; Ritz-Carlton looking to go condo; Zipcar thefts. / 3 comments
Very sad about the destruction of Upper Room. As the linked article notes, this sets a very bad precedent. There... — Marcus / In the News: Battery Park City courtyard is demolished
They're an entirely gluten free bakery so maybe that's a good enough USP for people to come — Max / Sonder has closed all its locations, including Duane Street Hotel
"PLUS a heard a rumor that the upstairs tenants had been cleared out so" - isn't there a story here?... — Heide Fasnacht / Action at the old Tribeca Tavern
FYI JUMBO-sized rats jumping from the Meadow Lane trash piles and overflowing/unclosed trash containers on Harrison St to the underside... — Lhansell / Meadow Lane opens on Friday
Hi! Any update on when the pizza place is set to open? Tribeca needs more pizza!!! :) — K / Seen & Heard: Slice shop for Chambers
Not only is pedestrian traffic less than robust - there are several other bagel locations nearby. I wish Modern well,... — Gary / Sonder has closed all its locations, including Duane Street Hotel
That's the amazing Jonas Wood house, built in 1804, and moved from 314 Washington St. First owners were buying a... — Bruce Gomes / Townhouse Peeping: 25 Harrison Street