Plus: The former Matsugen space is going to be a three-level store; digging out dirt on Leonard; townhouse renovation (and enlargement); "Lost Jazz Shrines" concert; Transportation Alternatives street fair to involve artisanal food; event space with piano. / 2 comments
Plus: Gigi Hadid likes Nili Lotan; a salute to Arcade Bakery's ham-and-cheese sandwich; White Street building sold. / 4 comments
Plus: The Five Boro Bike Tour is this Sunday; hotel construction takes over a lot of Desbrosses; exterior demolition on Broadway buildings; new Community Board 1 members; two shows at Taymour Grahne Gallery.
Plus: Falcon eggs hatching in FiDi; 70 Pine retail signage gets quashed by Landmarks; two thefts (including a wallet from a Whole Foods cart and a Citi Bike, somehow); "Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie." / 1 comment
Plus: A new update on Tetsu restaurant; Torly Kid's annual tween party; the Water Street arcade plan is getting pushed through quickly; exhibit of female artists' nudes.
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
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