The Empire State Trail starts in Battery Park City and ends in Buffalo with 75 percent of it off road. The website also is a great planning tool for day trips.
Plus the Flea Theater shuts down emerging artist programs; a new Target for Soho; the inner workings of time on Chambers. / 2 comments
A proposal from Governors Island would develop 33 acres as an academic campus, with accessory retail, dorms, restaurants and buildings that could rise to 340 feet. / 14 comments
Plus the Four Seasons opens a new membership-only spa; the South Cove gets an engineering award. / 1 comment
Plus Frenchette Bakery has added Saturday hours; the German School has added another grade; Dr. Smood's on Hubert is still in play, but on hold. / 1 comment
With no fanfare, the plaza opened to the public this morning. It's a great addition to the neighborhood. / 14 comments
A pair of architects have created a plan for the four-acre traffic circle that is the off ramps for the Holland Tunnel. There is no doubt it would be transformational. / 11 comments
A clock that matches the history of the neighborhood and the talents of James Bogardus is installed in the plaza. / 6 comments
I am not going to say it, but I think we are all thinking the same thing. It's a bit much to take. / 3 comments
In one of the odder neighborhood mysteries, a man calmly cuts down the Washington Market Park court's net, and it is discovered a day later dumped behind the work shed at the park. / 22 comments
Plus the Lilac leaves 25 and returns today; DCC giving out masks for those in need; keeping balls in the air at Duane Park.
A neighbor compiles art from around the country that gets out the vote; the pumpkin as politics in Washington Market Park; a family pilgrimage to Ladder 8; Blue Moon Fish has its last day on Greenwich.
Not easily... — Tribeca Citizen / Finding a vaccine in the neighborhood
I also believe Westway would have been taken over with development - much as West Street is now. Can you... — G / Designer of Independence Plaza dies at 82
@Scott -- since you asked. Westway was basically a taxpayer-financed swindle disguised as a park that would have *worsened* traffic... — Komanoff / Designer of Independence Plaza dies at 82
It's a shame he succeeded with Independence Plaza and failed with the Westway. The end result is two eyesores that... — Scott / Designer of Independence Plaza dies at 82
Any chance you make the links load in a new tab? — Chris / Finding a vaccine in the neighborhood
125 Worth Street is no longer taking walk-ins. My husband I were there tonight (Monday, the18th) at about 8:30. We... — j / Finding a vaccine in the neighborhood
We live two blocks away from 1803 and could hear their loud, recorded, amplified music through closed windows. It was... — JVZ / The streets will now be even quieter…