Seen & Heard: Shinola Block Party
Plus: Spanish restaurant update (and café?); construction kitten news; Governors Island show of Sandy photos; DeRose Method photo exhibit; Tribute in Light; Brandy Library is branching out.
A New Fitness Studio Is Coming to Jay Street
But exactly what kind has yet to be decided. It's down to two companies.... / 4 comments
Dancing from the Heart
Chatting with Ellen Robbins, a dance teacher for more than four decades (who is now teaching here), about what children can get from dance—including grace, poise, and an outlet for self-expression. / 4 comments
Seen & Heard: The Garbage Garage
Plus: 24-hour diner construction is underway; Donna Ferrato photo show (and construction-site art-project block party); North End Grill's Sunday Dinner; new 71 Reade rendering; the Lady Bunny.
In the News: Pier 17’s Last Night
Plus: A local who goes there; the story of the World Trade Center trademarks; historic Seaport building not getting landmarked.
Coming Soon: Stitched Tribeca
Neighborhood crafters (and those wanting to learn) will soon have a new hangout: Battery Park City resident Val Chan is opening Stitched Tribeca next month.
Do You Like Cocktails and Conspiracy?
There's a new semi-private club coming for progressive muckrakers: Tarbell Industries, founded by a FiDi resident who wants a place to scheme. / 1 comment
Newsletter: Sept. 9
Gee Whiz Diner Is Branching Out • New Kid on the Block: Taymour Grahne Gallery • Five Endorsements • New York Academy of Sex Education • Brunch • El Vez • More
Seen & Heard: Manhattan Youth Continues to Rebound
Plus: A new gallery on Lispenard; "stripped-down" Rick Springfield; John Wesley Harding.
In the News: 9/11 Museum Hoping to Open in the Spring
Plus: FiDi rapper has Cadillac seized for not paying reward for lost laptop; plans for a Stone Street hotel.
Real Estate Sales Report
Who's buying where, from whom (including the author of "Triburbia")—and for how much.
In the News: Previously Unexhibited Warhols
Plus: Mexican chef lands in the Flatiron; doublefunky White Street loft; new Montessori school in Battery Park City.









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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?