Gene Schafer's sports rehabilitation and fitness facility has one of the coolest addresses around: Staple Street.
Plus: Bloomberg defends atheists; naked people in FiDi on purpose; martial arts; Battery Park City Block Party leadership vacuum; 200 Chambers penthouse.
The striptease has begun. Plus: Something's brewing at 73 Hudson; work begins at 137 Franklin; new subway entrance opening tomorrow; new fitness classes; Tribeca Meet & Greet. / 2 comments
Plus: New Sarabeth's update; Tribeca Meet & Greet; 1st Precinct neighborhood party; yoga studio no longer donation-based. / 2 comments
Plus: Pop-up gallery; exercise party; Jazz Wednesdays; mini golf; week-long 9/11 remembrance (including reunion for first responders); Greenmarket forecast. / 1 comment
Plus: Brushstroke reviewed; Reade57 trying to be affordable and luxurious; 395 Broadway loft sale; suits at sea; teens awarded for service; green lake gone.
Support locally owned businesses. Plus: Fatty Snack report; Duane Park dance party; new Ranger rumored to be househunting here; State Senator Daniel Squadron to pay a visit; New York Dolls; Tribeca Greenmarket report; Asphalt Green BPC.
Plus: Why Pier 25 was closed during the fireworks show; Asphalt Green Battery Park City; Jung Sik; Tiny's treat; Liev Schreiber update. / 1 comment
Not only is dancing out-and-out fun, it's a great way for kids to be active. With its four-studio complex, Downtown Dance Factory has classes in all sorts of styles, for ages two through teen. It even offers classes for adults—when was the last time you shook your groove thing? / 3 comments / Sponsored
Plus: 3,000 flags in Battery Park for the 9/11 anniversary; checking in with Nirvana International, Poets House, and Bogardus Garden; Terroir to open in Murray Hill; mixed martial arts.
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