Plus: The Smyth hotel was sold; fashion designer Ji Oh's Tribeca favorites; city agency appears to push Water Street arcade privatization; addressing the problem of vacant storefronts.
Plus: Neighbors set up GoFundMe drive for homeless friend; Judah Friedlander on Tribeca; Flour Shop bakery is open and making "explosion cakes"; Parm's postcard; 1984 map of Tribeca by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly. / 5 comments
Plus: Works starting on fire-damaged 111 Church; more Amazon lockers; Q House of Basics pop-up extended; how to help the homeless man at Broadway and Leonard? / 5 comments
Plus: Rapper Cardi B's Tribeca roots; thefts and a slashing on the police blotter; ceviche stand opening at Canal Street Market. / 8 comments
Plus: Local resident serving in the U.S. Army; the problems at Calypso St. Barth; when Pearl Paint was small; Canal Street Market vendor shuts down.
Plus: P.S. 89 principal Veronica Najjar's two experiences with terror attacks; more barriers on the bike path; remembering James Gill. / 6 comments
The three-story building at 153 Franklin sold in an off-market deal to a lawyer linked to the singer. / 2 comments
Plus: Bouley won't reopen for at least two years; anti-dancing law to be repealed this week; Weinstein Company consolidation; Roman and Williams opening a store on Howard; artist Toni Dove; remembering James F. Gill. / 1 comment
Plus: The history of a Broadway building (and one that didn't survive); Battery Park City supermarket space is on the market; Arcade Bakery's babka recipe; more on the MTA's next payment system; artist Claes Oldenburg.
Plus: More on the phone-payment subway test; Italian restaurant and rooftop lounge slated for FiDi; a mentalist lives here.
Plus: Equitable Building to get renovated; Department of Buildings saw nothing wrong at 143 Fulton, site of Styrofoam snowstorm; what's entailed in restoring old buildings; the colorful fashion of Malcah Zeldis.
Plus: More on the recent Styrofoam snowstorm; Community Board 1 to convene a housing subcommittee; Charlotte Gainsbourg is living in Tribeca.
James! Thank you ! I love the photo. — Native NYer / Upon the Palace has opened
So by extension, ill will toward the future employees of Hobby Lobby? — Bobbie / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Smartphones and doom scrolling has sucked the life out of our kids. Sometimes you need reminders like this to really... — hmmm / Capturing the lives of Tribeca youth before smartphones took hold
How many times, on a summer afternoon, did I sit on the doorsill at Dudley's Paw with Dudley beside me.... — John Willenbecher / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Yum yum. Looking forward to going here! — SW / Upon the Palace has opened
Yes!!!! My lady and I have been BEGGING for one of these!!!! — Jack Gaff / Chambers Street Wines is opening a wine bar on… Chambers
so, no RIOTS or claims of a “rigged election”; is that the point? 🤔 — baba galacticus / It’s quiet out there