"I want to encourage people to dress up!" says Silje Lübbe. To that end, she has co-founded Nova Octo, a new service based in Tribeca that allows women to rent extraordinary dresses that would otherwise sell for upward of $7,000. / 3 comments
Plus: Security warning; listing for the Koh's Kids space on Greenwich; the Craft Studio's Tribeca location is a pop-up; the New York City Drone Film Festival; tackiness at Whole Foods. / 3 comments
Cruise Automation, which is owned by General Motors, is setting up in Hudson Square and using the area to test its driverless cars. / 30 comments
Plus: Swim team helps Puerto Rico; Frenchette recipe for steak au poivre (and an opening forecast); more on the underground farm on Worth Street; Tribeca artist Red Grooms vs. Derek Jeter. / 3 comments
Plus: Laughing Man's Street Seats expansion was rejected again; Holland Tunnel to undergo five-year reconstruction with overnight closings; praise for Tetsu's olive oil cake; Trinity Church is also getting a new organ. / 10 comments
Plus: Man hit by fire escape dies; Taylor Swift's neighbors; WeWork's grand plans; Perelman Center gets funding and artistic director; Christie Brinkley is renting here; Cuomo approved shady $1 million grant to Cadillac.
With classes for adults and kids, the Craft Studio has been an Upper East Side institution since 1994. This will be its first downtown location. / 3 comments
Plus: Progress at the World Trade Center performing arts center; organ transplant at St. Paul's Chapel; Korean snack food now in Chinatown.
Plus: Joe & the Juice rumor quashed; Broadway storefront being used as an event space; additions to Community Board 1's agendas; midnight sidewalk construction; "Bull" shoot; wonderful Peter Hujar show at the Morgan Library. / 5 comments
Plus: WeWork in yet another building downtown; free Washington Market talk; notable films at the Roxy Cinema; Medford Fancy Goods artifact. / 6 comments
Plus: Tetsu is now serving lunch; CTL Electronics and the fight to save cathode ray tube televisions; Fourteenjay founder on opening a salon in the city; more thefts; big new FiDi pub; affordable housing (and the lack thereof). / 1 comment
Plus: Bottega Falai closed; a glimpse of the single-family home under construction on Greenwich; reader seeks managing agent recommendations; historical rent data; manhole advertising. / 3 comments
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