Plus: Compose's new chef, new plans; trouble at New York by Gehry and 57 Reade; two new developments nearly sold out; meet your new neighbor across Canal Street. Update: Added info on Superdry opening in Seaport.
A possible Church Street speakeasy, M1-5, a Pier 11 bakery, the old American Stock Exchange, the Bogardus clocktower, Collect Pond Park, the City Hall Park's dangerous bike path, and more: What CB1 committees will be discussing in July.
The striptease continues. Plus: Super Linda opening date; Tribeca Greenmarket forecast; "Love, Peace and Unicorns." / 1 comment
Plus: 9/11 Memorial shortfall; inside a sale at 34 Laight; photo show at the "Lilac" ship at Pier 25; theater review; restaurant designer Larry Bogdanow; Rector Square payback; Winter Garden arts programming; Soul Daddy; smoking in BPC. / 1 comment
Open and mobbed. Plus: Acquittals in Deutsche Bank building fire case; how rent-stabilization changes affect Lower Manhattan; dissing Tracy Anderson; White & Church.
Plus: Denise Richards; July 4 barbecue; Sarah Mlynowski's new novel; Tamarind Tribeca. / 7 comments
"Tom Shales's history of 'Saturday Night Live' mentions the Blues Bar, a 'seedy joint' rented (or bought) by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi to hold post-post-show parties. The most precise location information I can come up with is that it was somewhere near Canal St." —Paul C. / 5 comments
Plus: Sarabeth's update (and signage); La Lumia sale; Potbelly Sandwich Shop opening tomorrow; FiDi dog run open.
Plus: 3,000 flags in Battery Park for the 9/11 anniversary; checking in with Nirvana International, Poets House, and Bogardus Garden; Terroir to open in Murray Hill; mixed martial arts.
Shira Berk loves cooking healthily as much as she loves making sweets, so she's doing both in the tiny kitchen at Goodie Girl Café—it's inside JCP Downtown, but open to everyone. / 5 comments
More on the condo conversion. Plus: Missing Tribecan; 177 Franklin for sale; library cuts; Independence Plaza financing; angry parents; 90 Franklin sale.
Cars are not allowed to make right and left turns? — Marcus / The neighborhood’s camera infrastructure
Please, let me shed a tear for the poor driver who can’t make u-turns or speed. Yeah cyclists don’t pay... — Cd / The neighborhood’s camera infrastructure
A nightmare for Chinatown neighbors (and perhaps Tribeca too, if these ever open). These foolish and too small mini-jails were... — Marcus / Halting overnight work on the supertall jail on White Street
We can consistently be for: - stricter traffic enforcement against cars - stricter traffic enforcement against bicycles It's not either/or.... — Marcus / The neighborhood’s camera infrastructure
Yes, please. Wasn't this in the works? — Marcus / The neighborhood’s camera infrastructure
Whom should we be contacting then? Who has the power of these matters? Our congress and senate reps, or some... — Marcus / Canal Street ranks as one of city’s deadliest
We want Venetian gondolas — Marcus / Canal Street ranks as one of city’s deadliest