Seen & Heard: Gap Cancels Its Plans
Meaning Cristina Dos Santos gets a reprieve. Plus: Summer Sale Report (including today's Erin Fetherston sample sale, Calypso, and Torly Kid); Whole Foods Tribeca to launch a food cart; kids concert canceled; Maiyet opening on Crosby. / 1 comment
Is the Hudson River Park Tax in Trouble?
Developer Douglas Durst, a longtime proponent of the Neighborhood Improvement District plan, has withdrawn his support—in part because the sale of air rights along West Street will likely mean compromised views and a corresponding decrease in home values. / 3 comments
Nosy Neighbor: What’s Happening at 87 Leonard?
"The work seems to have stopped, the lights on the third floor are left on all night, and more problematic, the windows are not secured." —A. / 3 comments
Newsletter: June 27
New Kid on the Block: The Butterfly • Nosy Neighbor: BMCC Trailers • Close-Up: Thomas Street • Hudson River Park Legislation and Smoking Ban • Broadway Reconstruction • More
In the News: Seaport Museum Left to Sink
Plus: 56 Leonard penthouse sells for downtown record; Exerblast closing today; child assaulted at Pier 17; All Good Things burglary; FiDi lobby retail.
Seen & Heard: Smoking Banned in Hudson River Park
Plus: A close-up of the Pier 26 restaurant; free tennis clinic; 449 Washington listings; WeightWatchers in FiDi; P.S. 234 flash mob. / 10 comments
New Kid on the Block: The Butterfly
When was the last time you ate at a restaurant where the servers wore pocket protectors? Or frilly aprons? The Butterfly, chef Michael White's homage to Wisconsin, feels delightfully un-focus-grouped. / 5 comments
Seen & Heard: New Restaurant Plans for Lispenard
Plus: A 93 Worth reunion at 15 Renwick; Franklin subway entrance finally reopened; new deli; Marc Forgione Bloody Mary mix; Balcony Café progress. UPDATE: Lispenard restaurant not necessarily happening. / 1 comment
What’s Replacing Working Class
Before we get to the new tenant on Duane Park, something just as important: Almost everything at Working Class Emporium is now 60% percent off.
Close-Up: Thomas Street
A look at the patterns, details, textures, and scars that make Thomas Street distinctive. / 4 comments
Seen & Heard: Hudson River Park Legislation Is Passed
Plus: The reopened Bikini Bar's funky new menu; "Tribeca Animal Totem"; NYPD ticketing Citi Bikers. / 6 comments
In the News: Broadway Reconstruction
Plus: A sassy business; what to call 1 World Trade Center?; election drama at Stuyvesant; bees in Battery Park; overheard in Tribeca; street vendors miffed at Citi Bike; "scary sale" at 19 Hubert.
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History of Tribeca Buildings
REALLY shows the difference between when this was an neighborhood of families headed by teachers, artists, manufacturers, and other normal... — Elizabeth / The young vandals of Washington Market Park
Nice to know it won't be a commercial ghost town soon but...anyone else miss Sergio? Or the lovely family that... — Elizabeth / An update on the new businesses for Greenwich
I think the picture is showing the northeast corner of Sixth and Walker (or the southwest corner of the building).... — Robert Ripps / Blank Street Coffee is coming to Sixth and Walker
There is staff there now. Parents do NOT like being told what to do. — Tribeca Citizen / The young vandals of Washington Market Park
You do know this project predates this administration, correct? — malcolm / Deliverista Hub at City Hall will open soon
When we neighbors organized to create this lovely )then private) park back in 1983 we had on site paid staff... — Jean Grillo / The young vandals of Washington Market Park
Is the Parks Dept or the Friends allowed to impose fines for this, for damaging public property or something? And... — SW / The young vandals of Washington Market Park