Plus: Tribeca Upholstery is moving out after 27 years on Reade; more on City Vineyard's jazz night; Krav Maga Institute's forthcoming studio; MSNBC is shooting today.
Plus: Where By Chloe and Scotch & Soda will be in the Seaport; woman dragged by would-be bag-snatcher; Governors Island wants to create a plaza in front of the Battery Maritime Building; man slashed on subway.
Street fair season approaches. Plus: Another peek inside Tetsu restaurant; Babesta sale; Cuban music concert at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center; Porky Hefer installation at R & Company. / 4 comments
City Vineyard just announced that 20 singer-songwriters will perform there this winter for small, reservation-only audiences. / 3 comments
Plus: Brookfield Properties chooses Cuomo friend's company to run the North Cove Marina sailing school; 111 Murray passes halfway point; Starbucks to end its beer-and-wine program.
Plus: Gary Graham sample sale; two Warren Street buildings are evidently not getting torn down; Antique Garage signage; "Power" shooting again; FiDi group meeting in rumored Danny Meyer restaurant space. / 2 comments
Plus: Class-action lawsuit against Jungsik; beverage magnate has a Tribeca apartment; photos inside 70 Vestry construction site; The Fat Jew and his wife are divorcing; FiDi residents got married; cash no longer accepted at the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. / 3 comments
The word from FiDi Fan Page is that restaurateur Danny Meyer is close to signing on for a restaurant high up in 28 Liberty—to go along with the event space he has already agreed to run elsewhere in the building.
Plus: Church Street School's future; the new shop/showroom on Duane; the Sarabeth's owners bought a restaurant on Houston; people in their 50s who moved to New York City. / 1 comment
Plus: Neat photo from 1914; North Cove Marina update; Fowler & Wells now serving weekday lunch; hat stolen off man's head; metal debris crashes into hotel window; Alexander Hamilton Tavern opening in FiDi; Best Western in the Seaport has closed. / 3 comments
Plus: A rave for Augustine; more on the closing of Parigot; equipment stolen from the World Trade Center Oculus; other area thefts; Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel construction to end early.
The chicken specialists are collaborating with Eben Lillie of Chambers Street Wines on a wine bar called Verre de Terre, or VdT. It's just one subway stop away....
Does anyone have the count of trees in the Battery and Battery Park City that have been felled for the... — Heide Fasnacht / The distance we’ve come in 25 years
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