Plus: Water Street arcade plan approved by the City Planning Commission; By Suzette creperie has reopened; neat plywood treatment; Black Burger on Franklin. / 1 comment
Plus: The city's highest taxable income is in FiDi?; still no progress on West Thames bridge; glassy Seaport tower; how a Battery Park City artist spends his Sundays. / 9 comments
Plus: Harrison Street townhouse for sale; guessing why there were no Tribeca Film Festival Drive-In screenings this year; Poets House's Brooklyn Bridge walk; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council open studios; Yasuo Nomura exhibit.
Plus: Big Wall Street art show canceled; Soho Photo's Affordable Art Fair; hope for a Broadway retail space renovation; Dine Around Downtown is coming up. / 1 comment
Here's the menu. Plus: Kitchens at 70 Vestry will have four ovens (and many will have two washing machines); results of a survey of people who hire nannies; Houseman's kitchen-swap with a Savannah restaurant; man pulled from car and attacked. / 1 comment
Plus: Duane Street Hotel's revamped façade; 443 Greenwich partly revealed; rowing for heart health at Current; Pirch and Planet Blue opening on Lafayette in Soho; half-converted Broadway building put on the market.
"Do you know what this structure is atop the old Western Union building?" —S. / 1 comment
Plus: Proposal to tax developers to fund schools; finding takers for the Liberty Street bridge panels damaged in 9/11; woman attacked at Growler Bar; motorcycles stolen.
Plus: The antagonistic ice cream truck; Hubert Street maisonette gets a $20 million price-chop; Blackstones salon opens tomorrow; Sheldon Silver crony wins special election; Hudson Square building to get 10,000-square-foot rooftop event space.
Plus: Zadig & Voltaire sample sale today; Tribeca's Kitchen has reopened; Beach sign restoration; actual work happening at City Vineyard; 56 Leonard's final windows; huge Tribeca Film Fest street fair is this Saturday; no Drive-In screenings this year. / 7 comments
Plus: Q&A with artist Alexis Rockman; the conversion of the former New York Stock Exchange office building to rentals; chef Daniel Rose. / 3 comments
Plus: Exhibit of work by longtime Tribeca artist Tom Shannon; Jay Street retail space for rent; Starbucks opens another branch on the same block; Hudson building being converted to condos; Classic Car Club's interesting new location.
I was never a huge fan of his work, but I like 8 Spruce enough. A good sunset does the... — malcolm / Architect Frank Gehry and Downtown
I know I'm coming off as a fanboy, and maybe I am a bit, but when you look downtown and... — mulciber / Architect Frank Gehry and Downtown
I knew a few people who live there. The apartments are handsome and well-appointed, but they're typical apartments, with box-like... — mulciber / Architect Frank Gehry and Downtown
I'm not sure where you're getting this from, but Mr. Gehry had strong feelings about vernacular architecture, and he considered... — mulciber / Architect Frank Gehry and Downtown
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