Plus: Tribeca gym owner tells of racial taunts while a police diver; Gateway Plaza residents mobilizing; custom perfumer on Franklin; big plans for a FiDi building; Bogardus Plaza.
Think of the condos! Plus: Duarte Square gets a pop-up garden; app developer Georg Petschnigg; new recording studio.
Plus: Five R stations getting renovated; Hudson storefront mystery (and availability); is 443 Greenwich stalled?; eating pizza for charity; 87 Leonard update. / 2 comments
Plus: Biker-gang beatdown charges; inside glorious 5 Beekman; west Soho hotel to have rooftop bar; Seamless scam update; affordable housing in Hudson Square; heated sidewalks. / 6 comments
Parts of 502 Canal—long neglected, then finally renovated—have been unveiled. It's looking wonderful! / 2 comments
Plus: Shabby behavior at Independent Plaza North; the history of 5 Beekman; inside Soho's new Smith & Mills sister restaurant; Greenhouse bottle fight; opposing diesel generator atop Sixth Avenue landmark.
Plus: Dylan Prime's new lunch menu; Cuban café on Broadway open; China Blue delivering; Live Well Company debuts next week; photos by World War II vets at Soho Photo; Broadway restaurant in play? / 6 comments
"No activity since the last summer. The interior appears nearly complete (or as complete as it was last summer). It surprises me that no one has swooped in to buy it and finish the job." —A.
Plus: Seamless crackdown; Telepan Local's fried watercress; Alice Feiring wine club; the Condé Nast effect; a peek inside the 93 Reade conversion; Seaport working group. / 2 comments
Plus: Bag of brown, gunky fluid on N. Moore; 88 Leonard retail space; 28 N. Moore conversion drawings; "Where in Tribeca...?" hint. / 4 comments
Who bought where, from whom—and for how much. (Includes a penthouse bought by a media honcho.)
Definitely mostly tourists. I've taken to telling them that there are still pancakes at lots of other places that don't... — Elizabeth / Seen & Heard: An all-time record at Bubby’s?
I can’t wait for Friedman’s to open so that the neighborhood can do out for weekend brunch again. — Bec / Seen & Heard: An all-time record at Bubby’s?
Are there some higher up powers that have been protecting these African fake vendors and their Chinese counterparts? It’s inexplicable... — R. / Counterfeit sales on Broadway are worse than ever
The Feds are the only ones who care about this issue. NYPD is incapable and Christopher Marte is worthless. Keep... — SoHo / Counterfeit sales on Broadway are worse than ever
Good luck to you, Nicki! I support whatever you do. We can crochet & knit together....... — Emily Stein / Nicki Francis will wrap up Khushi Spa Products — for now
Funny to remember Bubby’s,as I did the very first logos on the glass,of a cup of coffee…They had apple pies... — karen muir / Seen & Heard: An all-time record at Bubby’s?
It’s an American Kestrel. Earlier this summer, when the bird was much younger, it ran into a window on a... — Nschuene / Seen & Heard: An all-time record at Bubby’s?