Plus: Asphalt Green pools to be closed for three weeks; floats on sale at Balloon Saloon; Maharishi says it's opening soon; new gallery in Northwest Tribeca; Broadway storefront activity. / 1 comment
Plus: The Souths building is back on the market; reader seeks French instruction; no peddlers yesterday; yet another shoot this week; stores offering luggage storage; Chinatown street to be closed to cars for three months; Bowery café; neat old sign. / 4 comments
Plus: A block of Warren Street will be closed next weekend; Morgenstern's ice cream cart in walking distance from here; spiffy new awning for Tribeca Spaces; Frenchette's classy ashtray; the next best thing to a TC tote. / 3 comments
At a building developed by friends of the President. Plus: The history of 44 Walker includes a rooftop bird-and-butterfly sanctuary; massive price chop for potential Hubert single-family home; hummus ice cream; mulling the next huge Seaport development.
This is the end of an era, as W. Broadway will no longer smell of cinnamon, cumin, and the like. The buyer of the two buildings plans to convert them to residential. / 4 comments
Plus: "Wizardry and sorcery" school to open in FiDi; Amazon Prime discounts at Whole Foods; two possible uses for the former Grazin' space on Reade; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers resiliency plan; the condominium going up at Canal and Greene. / 5 comments
While Disney's move might ultimately be good for the burgeoning Hudson Square neighborhood, it will come at a price—four buildings each over 100 years old will be demolished. Here's a look at the character to be lost forever. / 18 comments
Plus: Another Battery Park City rental building will get converted to condos; how to report an idling truck or bus (and get paid for your efforts); work starts on 30-story Greenwich Street building. / 2 comments
Plus: A peek inside the new-build restaurant on Sixth Ave.; TD Bank backs out of plans for a new Tribeca branch; no more TC totes; sculpture show at Untitled.
Plus: Q&A with Paul Rudd; 70 Vestry model unit; the state of the estuarium at Pier 26; dispute over DeLury Square in the Seaport; the tented camp on Governors Island. / 6 comments
Plus: The new sculpture at Tribeca Park is up; Casey Neistat's confusing signage; "Hotel Nouvet" sign for a shoot; "Jessica Jones" is back; Soho restaurant Mamo is closed due to a fire.
Plus: Seamore's is in the hiring stage (and it'll have an Airstream trailer outside); possible new shoe store on Broadway; rooftop addition on Duane; last chance for a free Tribeca Citizen tote; "Modern Persuasion" shoot. / 12 comments
Eliz, I tried to make clear my disgust and disdain for placard abuse. I validated your outrage at the top... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
https://tribecacitizen.com/2026/06/17/icymi-the-speed-limit-is-now-20-mph/ — Tribeca Citizen / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Ah yes, the city was given permission to lower limits, I just didn't know that Chambers had gotten the treatment... — malcolm / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
If free and easy on-street parking isn't compatible with lower Manhattan, then why is it available to city workers? The... — Elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Apparently the speed limit is now 20. No one would ever know that since the street is usually backed up... — elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Sorry, your lone justifiable outrage IMO is that cops, firemen, court officers and other apparatchiks get free parking spaces. We... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Don't the speed cameras only kick in at 11mph over? So wouldn't that mean at least 36mph? — malcolm / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses