"Art Deco luxe meets rebelliously sophisticated" is how fashion-and-handbag designer Gretchen Maull describes the style of her Tribeca home, as featured on Apartment Therapy.
Plus: A peek inside Augustine; Municipal Building cupola tour; checking in on Ward III's progress; learn to shuck from an expert; new Broadway storefront; new lighting store.
Plus: Howard Hughes Corporation tries an end-run regarding the Tin Building; the ornate post office building that used to be in City Hall Park. / 2 comments
Plus: Trinity Boxing Club's new studio is open; Madeline Lanciani's Ring Ding Bar; the Bar Works on Chambers will have a gym; keeping an eye on a likely development in northwest Tribeca. / 3 comments
Plus: Houseman to test Sunday brunch; Soho Photo's October shows; a likely condo sales office on Lispenard; a Tribecan's webseries, shot in the area; the chairs at the new Starbucks Reserve café; shoots for "Caine" and iHeartRadio. / 2 comments
Toll Brothers City Living has finally posted a rendering for the 19-story building underway at 353-357 Broadway (between Leonard and Franklin), which will have its entrance in the narrow dog-leg that connects at 91 Leonard. / 2 comments
And a Vitamin Shoppe, too, as chains continue wrapping their fingers around the neighborhood. Plus: The first rendering for the new 10-story building where the two stores will be. / 4 comments
Plus: Community Board 1 weighs in on the proposed changes to a landmarked plaza; Battery Park City woman sues divorce lawyer for sexual coercion (includes the come-on of the year). / 1 comment
Sight Unseen featured the Tribeca loft of Danish designer Søren Rose and his family. "You’ve gotta be either Keith Richards or Steve McQueen to get on my wall," says Rose.
Plus: Profile of architect Thierry Despont; parking lot owner refuses to let school block street for recess; another World Trade Center mall tenant gets sued for bailing; the history of 176 Franklin, where Riverrun was; city to sell lovely old Centre Street building to developer who can demolish it; Saks aims to be like a website; Cut's chef and art. / 5 comments
You know what this neighborhood needs? Manicures! Plus: More on the Market Lane grocery/food court coming to the World Trade Center mall; the delivery-only "restaurant" on Reade; 125 Greenwich might be taller, or it might not; celebrity couple separates; should a landmarked plaza get glass pavilions?
Plus: Michelangelo's pizza joint; moving sale at Authentic Pre-Owned; street fair evidently canceled; how to weigh in on proposed changes to the city's street-fair policy; 1st Precinct Community Council meeting. / 7 comments
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SW -- I have written extensively about "micromobility" harms. I have called for reforms that could help "powered" bikes and... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Looking forward to them opening, but still laughing at the idea that they are going to put seats in that... — N / Update: Carnegie Diner at 200 Chambers
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Thanks for article...such a ugly site walking out the front door...and wondering when it will end!!! — Vivian / Nosy Neighbor: What’s going on in the construction yard on Harrison?