The digital media company Culturespaces has transformed the landmarked lobby of the Emigrant Savings Bank, turning it into a video experience. / 4 comments
After being thrown off of a whites-only streetcar in 1854, Elizabeth Jennings Graham fought to desegregate the city's public transit system. And won. / 2 comments
Plus celebrities at the One White farm stand and Balloon Saloon; the history of the Staple Street skybridge. / 1 comment
The Black abolitionist Rev. Theodore S. Wright lived there for several years in the 1840s while also the minister at the First Colored Presbyterian Church on Frankfort. / 3 comments
The commission has digitized the images from the designation reports for both buildings and historic districts. / 5 comments
Plus the history of the first subway; dolphins lunch in New York Harbor; residents sue the city over Local Law 97. / 8 comments
Plus the Messiah leaves his mark, unfortunately; a new Thai restaurant in Nolita; ornithologist alert: name that bird. / 11 comments
A music obsessive was determined to find the Tribeca connection to the punk rock band the Plasmatics. And he found it. / 9 comments
An urban legend trumped revolutionary history when it comes to the origin story for what's left of the Rhinelander Sugar House behind 1 Centre.
The city will add oral histories to its collections of images and maps to create multi-media stories for each neighborhood. / 2 comments
A restoration reveals the Tuckahoe marble and cast iron details of an 1858 Tribeca classic that was shrouded in 20th-Century missteps. / 1 comment
Who decided on that temporary “park”… I can guarantee you not the residents who live down here. We have turf... — Sam / The latest on Wagner Park, under construction now
Do they plan to bring in fully mature and well grown trees? If not it will take years and years... — Anon / The latest on Wagner Park, under construction now
As of today - June 4 - all of the trees are gone. They ripped everything out to the street…... — Anon / Seen & Heard: A view of the Wagner demolition
It's quite unseemly. — Marcus / Seen & Heard: Dine Around Downtown on Tuesday
No - as I said, it's seams. You can see them. — Tribeca Citizen / Seen & Heard: Dine Around Downtown on Tuesday
What is that stain on the sculpture by the ladder? — Marcus / Seen & Heard: Dine Around Downtown on Tuesday
so thrilled to see this! i’ve missed cafe clementine so much!! congrats to the new owners- so grateful they didn’t... — jen / Old Kid on a New Block: Cafe Clementine