Plus: How to donate leftover Halloween candy to the troops; checking in on Park Place tower; souvenir shop closed; persimmon, tangerine, and cherimoya season; Stefan Kürten paintings. / 5 comments
Plus: Best Market's owner on the store's closing; recent muggings and thefts; big playpen bar opens in FiDi; that annoying ad barge and similar signage at Brookfield Place. / 2 comments
All of the jewelry is made to order in Japan, with a four-to-six-week lead time. / 2 comments
Plus: New toy store, Starbucks, and benches at the World Trade Center mall; Laughing Man staff pays tribute to Hugh Jackman; much-needed traffic island installed; painting exhibit. / 10 comments
Now that Independence Plaza's owners have declined to renew the lease for a school and a supermarket, perhaps they'll tell us what exactly they have planned for the strip. / 56 comments
Plus: A Thanksgiving menu by Frenchette; new renderings for 77 Greenwich (which will have a school in the base); the exquisite lobby in the AT&T Long Distance Building; Gucci to open art-and-photography bookstore in Soho.
Women are said to love the Australian brand's sophistication, timelessness and flexibility—with a change of shoes, an outfit can go from work to the park to dinner. / 1 comment
Plus: CVS opening a huge store in Hudson Square; the history of the Walker's building; Robert De Niro doesn't live here. / 4 comments
Plus: Grand rooms at former banks now for private use; more on the Bronx Museum of the Arts incubator; local thefts.
Plus: Korin's master knife sharpener has passed away; Rooq frame store appears to have opened; inaccurate "sidewalk closed" sign removed; pot dispensary. / 2 comments
Instead of a bookstore, it'll be a convenience store without cashiers, and "a combination of sensors, cameras and computer vision" will be used to charge customers. / 4 comments
Plus: Higher-end convenience store opened on Lafayette; Greenwich Street building to have "a kind of scarification" and squircle windows.
As I see it, it all matters. A civilized city should have good solutions to all of these issues. — Marcus / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
With Paper Source now closed inside Maman, where are people buying greeting cards/wrapping paper locally? (I want to avoid Hobby... — Sara / Seen & Heard: Maman is back open
I prefer the stickers to homeless, junkies, and excrement from dogs or humans. Focus on what matters maybe? — Thomas / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
Agreed about the sidewalk stickers, along with the painted on / sprayed on sidewalk ads and "clever" saying. Also, what... — Marcus / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
Those sidewalk stickers are a new out of home ad treatment; they are everywhere, they are hideous and yes, they... — nichole / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
I love this interview. What that NC senatorial candidate said about Morris -- that he captured her voice uniquely well... — Komanoff / TCQ&A: Morris Katz
a reminder to parents and care givers: Duane Park Patisserie gives homemade treats to trick or treaters from toddlers through... — madeline c lanciani / Halloween in Washington Market Park — and more to come