Inside a former loading dock, Frederique Thiollet has created a combination gallery, shop, and café. "I want people to stop and take a moment," she says.
Plus: Woman dies at Canal Street subway station; FiDi demo agitates neighbors; Downtown Little League; couples who work at home; Atera bartender Brandon Duff. / 1 comment
Plus: Inside 443 Greenwich; another Japanese bakery rumored; Bread Tribeca; VJ book giveaway; Squadron community confab; Natasha Lyonne; Brooklyn Bridge vendors; artist Robert Janz.
Plus: Blue Bottle pastry cookbook; Rally Downtown events with whiskey and wine; the gilded spire atop the old New York Mercantile Building; First-Time Tuesdays. / 1 comment
Including a view of 84 White; progress at Franklin Place; TOAST gallery (with water tower show); bookstore moving; Organic Modernism; Collect Pond Park; Walker office moving?; Broadway and Duane. Plus: Moving sale; Gina La Fornarina; Brookfield food. / 4 comments
Plus: Mexican restaurant not happening; Rosanne Cash concert; big new FiDi bar; Nyack College moving way downtown; Bronx woman's Tribeca connection; accused Yankee stalker.
Plus: Furniture store closes; Isabella Rossellini in the flesh; W. Broadway townhouse for sale; Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on its way; Marshall Crenshaw; time capsule; watercress; chocolate-covered matzoh.
Plus: A rave for Shigure; Aqua Studio; old South Ferry subway stop reopens; Hale & Hearty back in business; Cat Power. / 1 comment
Plus: 56 Leonard above street level; breaking glass in northwest Tribeca; Dylan Prime temporarily closed; sample sale at By Joy Gryson; Espasso sale (in Brooklyn); First-Time Tuesday report on Roberta Roller Rabbit (and a deal at Torly Kid); new items on CB1 agenda; 5 Beekman scaffolding is back.
Plus: Pier A progress; Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour; South Ferry station; Euphoria Spa; Hotel Particulier; FiDi Fika open again; Community Board 1's new members; the daguerreotype era; cram schools; 50 Laight storefront; 15 Broad comps; Half Marathon.
The menu is themed around the word "it," so you "start it," "make it," "fill it," "top it," and "sauce it," then possibly "side it" and "drink it." Whether you "push it," "work it," or "drop it like it's hot" depends on how much you like hip-hop. / 2 comments
Plus: 5 Beekman bared; lunch at Maslow 6 Wine Bar; shipping-container art at Brookfield Plaza; that thin building on Leonard; demolition on Broadway; a First-Time Tuesdays report. / 6 comments
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K sez: Will be interesting to watch how they shore up the neighboring buildings - which were tilting/falling after the... — K / Construction Update: Southeast corner of West Broadway and Warren
No surprise. I've almost been run over multiple times by red-light running speeders. There should be: - speed bumps -... — Marcus / Canal Street ranks as one of city’s deadliest
It's 4,000 new units at 100 Gold St, they're estimating over 8,000 new residents. — FidiMom / Seen & Heard: Big reno for east side of Pace campus