Plus: Sidewalk alongside 3 World Trade Center is just about done; no sign of progress at Hudson Square brewpub; paint store dresses up a sidewalk shed; catering advice for a bridal shower? / 5 comments
Plus: Thieves attack pet store employee; the FBI had been wiretapping the bike-path terrorist; checking in with Chinatown's food vendors. / 2 comments
Plus: Checking in on two new buildings on Greenwich; skateboard pop-up on Duane; did Saks suffer from not putting larger sizes on the sales floor?; "too cold for bullshit" sale; Madewell is open at the mall. / 3 comments
Apparently, it was always a "test concept." / 15 comments
Plus: Something called Wheelhouse appears to have taken over the former Consort space; Elevator to the Noir mystery at 60 Hudson; opening date for Brooklyn Game Lab; Philly Pretzel Factory said to still be happening. / 1 comment
Plus: Resale store open at the World Trade Center mall; 79 Warren's new facade revealed; fresh look for Canal Street restaurant; is Christmas already over? / 2 comments
Plus: This Is Gyro is open; work is underway at Max's future home on W. Broadway; local organization looking for help; pedestrian breakthrough on the Church Street side of the World Trade Center. / 3 comments
Plus: Bill de Blasio made a call to save P.S. 150; high-end real estate is a buyer's market right now; "Fearless Girl" is in its new location; two-story topper on White Street.
Plus: Praise for Downtown Florist; an amusing photo; Pen Parentis's December salon is about food and drink; "MF" shoot. / 1 comment
Plus: A peek inside the restaurant possibly opening someday on Sixth Avenue; answer keys to two Dead Restaurant posts; an excellent Field Chest at Best Made; thoughts on menswear.
Plus: Meet the Spring Street Salt Shed architects; new salon on Hudson Street; correction about the pop-up for dads; Ten Thousand Things trunk show; "Jessica Jones" shoot; Soho Photo exhibits; pop-up celebrating basketball culture.
If free and easy on-street parking isn't compatible with lower Manhattan, then why is it available to city workers? The... — Elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Apparently the speed limit is now 20. No one would ever know that since the street is usually backed up... — elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Sorry, your lone justifiable outrage IMO is that cops, firemen, court officers and other apparatchiks get free parking spaces. We... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Don't the speed cameras only kick in at 11mph over? So wouldn't that mean at least 36mph? — malcolm / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Meantime, I just got a speeding ticket by a camera going 31 on Chambers Street on a surprisingly clear road,... — Elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Joke or not, that sign has to go. — Marcus / Seen & Heard: Wayfinding for a counterfeit bazaar
Second that; thank you for the compelling history of this building (and our neighborhood)! When available, would be great to... — Reader on Reade / 54 Laight Street in the Tribeca North Historic District is for sale