Schilling feels like somewhere that could exist in another, livelier neighborhood. As for the food, both times it was far better than anyone who has eaten widely in FiDi would expect. (Yes, I'm grading on a curve.) / 3 comments
Plus: Canal Street café progress; more action at the 100 Franklin construction site; 1st Precinct's monthly-ish community meeting; comments are back up.
Plus: Uniqlo is said to be mulling a massive FiDi store; student in hit-and-run accident; the history of a Chambers Street building and western Canal Street; Gateway Plaza drama; steam vents. / 1 comment
Plus: Activity reported in former Dylan Prime space; cookies to support the Women's March on Washington; Rachael Yamagata in concert; this site's comment functionality. / 8 comments
Plus: The types of businesses verboten in Battery Park City; life in Hudson Square; anti-Trump protestors outside Goldman Sachs; tennis star buys near Holland Tunnel; Zucker's; former chair resigns from CB1; "community-centric advisory panel" for public art.
If you know Roc restaurant, you undoubtedly know owner Rocco Cadolini. "This is my show," he says. "The lights, the ambience, the music, the rush of the energy. People always say, 'I don’t know what it is, but I feel good in here.'" / 15 comments
Plus: When Governors Island opens a month early, it'll have a Grand Banks sister restaurant; shellfish theft; World Trade Center arts center to host rock concerts; film director lists apartment.
Plus: The De Blasio administration has jacked up commercial real estate taxes (and an acclaimed West Village restaurant is closing partly as a result); Cut has Sunday brunch and a lunch deal; when Broadway was Typewriter Row; East River Esplanade logjam cleared.
Plus: Proposed storefront replacements for Chambers and Reade; soft blobs at Taymour Grahne; confirmation of Agatha Ruiz de la Prada's closing; Broadway and Walker in 1912. / 5 comments
Discussed at last night's meeting: The imminent Warren Street reconstruction project; Apple's event space on Duane; weekend construction at 24 Leonard condominium; expanded outdoor seating at Laughing Man; the loud start of the Five Boro Bike Tour; CB1's street fair scheduled for Warren; Maxwell's sidewalk café. / 11 comments
Plus: Cute façade uncovered at forthcoming Canal Street café; signage for new manicure/blowout salon; checking in on the St. Nicholas National Shrine; child star.
Plus: The history of a Franklin Street building; 70 Vestry penthouse in contract; photos of 30 Park Place penthouse; new CFO at the Battery Park City Authority; review of Paul's Casablanca nightclub on Spring.
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