I spoke with Josh Rahmani, the affable CEO of Prime Essentials, which is opening its first store at 88 Leonard (at Broadway). What I learned....
And the store is reopening on the Lower East Side. Plus: Deals for Kidville and spa treatments; landscape-painting show; kissing for discounts.
"We're here to be good neighbors," said J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler at the preview of the new Crewcuts Tribeca store, which opens this morning.
Plus: Sarah Jessica Parker watch in effect; Crewcuts discount; gym and Soho restaurant deal; sell your jewelry and art. / 2 comments
Plus: Restaurant deal; Color Me Mine; art-gallery concert; a photo portfolio of local storefronts; Franklin Street construction.
Plus: Deals at Cercle Rouge, Torly Kid, and NeurOasis; comics class for kids; Zucker's Law.
Plus: Native American food truck; Tribeca teacher is an Oscar nominee; Compose interview; Marc Forgione loses; massage-parlor fire; Bouley rumor; Hudson Square tenant; Todd Hase Furniture sale; Harrison loft sale. / 1 comment
Plus: 195 Broadway lobby revamp; rosé in winter; reviving Water Street; Nassau Street vacant lot for sale; more hotels?; India House selling its art; policing 9/11 memorabilia; Winter Garden stairs; Condé Nast.
Plus: "Baby + Me" lunch special; hot chocolate; art opening at Artisan Lofts; Weather Up Tribeca; Bowlmor's Tribeca Loft nightclub. / 2 comments
Plus: New Amsterdam Market indoors for a weekend; 114 Liberty apartment; $750 worth of Monistat stolen from Duane Reade.
A scout reports that the Verdesian building in Battery Park City held an event on Thursday in which details were revealed about Goldman Sachs's retail plans for its building and for the Conrad Hotel (née Embassy Suites). / 4 comments
Plus: Katrina Vonnegut at RH Gallery; Tribeca Townhomes penthouse; huge new Asian restaurant planned for Canal Street; Millennium High School; No. 22 Renwick; Adeline Adeline; BPCer doing good in India; RBC's coffee maven; hating on fireplaces; affordable housing; James McCune Smith; Kardashians. / 2 comments
I loved walking by on Chambers, seeing all the instruments and folks working on them. It’s a reminder of what... — freya / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood
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So fortunate that nobody was seriously hurt!!! — Tribeca Local / Parking lift at Warren and West Broadway collapses, injuring attendant
This argument is a bit circular isn’t it? What was “very necessary” about destroying a neighborhood (as is apparent to... — Peter / The distance we’ve come in 25 years
The Battery Park Resiliency Project is a very necessary floodwater management project that has been fully approved. This exact same... — harryh / The distance we’ve come in 25 years
https://tribecacitizen.com/2026/06/01/an-renewed-effort-to-save-battery-park-citys-trees/ — Tribeca Citizen / The distance we’ve come in 25 years