Newsletter: Mar. 13
Loft Peeping: Sasha Bikoff • New Kid on the Block: Gurhan Atelier • Hunter College MFA Open Studios • New York Sports Club • Brookfield Place • 20Twenty Closed • New Blow-Dry Bar • 22 River Terrace • Los Americanos • More
Pier 26 Update
Good news about the boathouse, bad news about the restaurant. / 4 comments
In the News: Jose Garces Restaurant at Brookfield Place
But you're not part of the target demo. Plus: Another Battery Park City building might go condo; Juice Inn in southeast Soho; should Hudson River Park have enhanced security?
Seen & Heard: New Blow Dry Bar Confirmed
Plus: Hudson River Park bike path closed; 15 Leonard placeholder site; Babesta riffs off Banksy; the Armoury. / 3 comments
Sneak Peek: Hunter College MFA Open Studios
Five of the artists at this weekend's Hunter College MFA Open Studios let us take an advance look. (There will be a silent auction Friday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., with artwork starting as low as $50.) / 1 comment
Seen & Heard: New York Sports Club on the Way Out?
Plus: The 443 Greenwich sales office; letter to 22 River Terrace tenants; Caviarteria appears open; artist Robert Janz; Dianne Talan's construction-fence paintings; Lafayette face lift.
In the News: Reboot at Los Americanos
Plus: Big development at 111 Washington and 55 Broad; ultra-Orthodox Jews protest being included in Israeli draft; Ian Schrager and Herzog & de Meuron; BPC tilting toward owners, not renters; "Downtown North."
New Kid on the Block: Gurhan Atelier
"I like working with the past," says jeweler Gurhan Orhan, whose Gurhan Atelier has opened on Franklin. "My main mission is to pick up a stone or technique from history and bring it back to life."
Seen & Heard: Hardball at 22 River Terrace
Plus: Hey, it's 11 N. Moore!; the service at Zucker's; Hudson River Park dog run; Washington Market Park. / 5 comments
20Twenty Has Closed
It's vented, so we'll likely get a restaurant; then again, we might get a bar. And there is that dance floor....
In the News: The WTC Performing Arts Center’s Uphill Battle
Plus: Atheists appeal 9/11 "cross" ruling; role play for would-be community board members; inside ad agency Havas's offices; Bob Townley on after-school funding; new restaurant from Trattoria Cinque founder. / 1 comment
Newsletter: Mar. 10
Nosy Neighbor: Storefronts at Greenwich and Chambers • PrepPrep's Marjorie Jaffe Goldner • New Fitness Studio • Pret a Manger • Crunch Lawsuit • Woolworth Building Tours • Instagram • More
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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
Would've had to have been kept quiet. NYPD/other agencies wouldn't be able to identify unrelated drones in a flock of... — JT / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
I want to add, like Vickery Eckhoff said, the Lutnick photo is pretty telling. Another person uploaded a pretty normal... — M / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
Does anyone have the count of trees in the Battery and Battery Park City that have been felled for the... — Heide Fasnacht / The distance we’ve come in 25 years
I found this article by googling "New York drone show fake?" It's really a very weird situation. These drone shows... — M / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?