Plus luxury housing selling at a discount; single tickets on sale for film festival; NYPD opposed placard plan; an analysis of plan to fill in Seaport; Car & Driver evaluates congestion pricing. / 3 comments
A proposal for an 87-foot building with five apartments and retail on the ground floor has been permitted at 321 Church, which they are calling 31 Lispenard, natch. / 5 comments
Plus the land use process for the jail on White Street begins; the city is suing the company behind the floating billboard; Peter Sacks gets a profile in the New Yorker. / 1 comment
The pop-up store that opened at 49 Warren between West Bway and Church last summer, now has a real lease and offers unique products made in Japan, or made by Japanese artisans living in New York.
Plus Frenchette staff helps arrest a very bad man; updates on the city's efforts to ban development voids; land use process to start for proposed White Street jail. / 3 comments
Plus One Beekman Street rising; Star sightings at Frenchette (mais bien sur); Brookfield gets a smell-full tenant; Instacart gets pushed out of Whole Foods / 3 comments
Plus Dead Rabbit in the running for James Beard award; 443 Greenwich penthouse sale; more on filling in the Seaport; comparing real estate value across the city.
Plus some stats on commercial rentals; Escape Games rises to the top of its genre; the Flea gets a feature; DeNiro's mail bomber pleads guilty; dog runs as an example of the city's class divide. / 1 comment
The national hospitality chain Convene will take 73,000 square feet and use it for two large catering halls that will seat 500 people each, plus several other smaller meeting rooms. / 4 comments
City Winery has (almost) secured a new location, but won’t have it fitted out and ready till January, meaning there will be a few dark months without the concert space in the neighborhood. / 4 comments
The Times and Crain's report that the case against the developers of 108 Leonard to protect the building's clock tower -- a rare city interior landmark -- is pending in the state's highest court. / 3 comments
The group that dug the large hole in the ground at Greenwich and Desbrosses that was scheduled to be the "Hotel Barriere Le Fourquet" filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday.
It evidently was an art project- I wish that I had seen it!!! — Merle Temkin / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
It IS sort of weird, but remember that drone shows are often constructed so you can only make out the... — J / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
Thanks for covering this. It's so very strange! — malcolm / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
Amazing photo of Tribute in Light! — SW / Seen & Heard: Kyuramen is open on Gold
The bus I was on zipped by One Park Row so fast that I couldn't be sure, so I verified... — Gary / TurboTax opening an office on Greenwich and Warren
What is the seating for this performance tonight September 10th? I have the required tickets. Is it self seating on... — Steve Tintweiss / Bill T. Jones to commemorate 9/11 at Wagner Park
I swear I saw them opening on Park Row as well! — Heather / TurboTax opening an office on Greenwich and Warren