Seen & Heard: 50 years of photos from Robert Simko
Plus PS 150 will host its online auction; happy hour in the dog run; security grants for religious institutions.
In the News: An expert on light gives a tour of her apartment
Plus the efforts to save 60 Wall; more on the fight over Wagner Park; 30 Park Place penthouse sells to the son of the richest man on earth.
A couch, a sprinkler and a lawsuit
A furniture company attempted to move a couch through the stairwell, hit a sprinkler head, flooded the building and repairs are still going on two years later. / 5 comments
Seen & Heard: A way to report unlicensed cannabis shops
Plus enforcement of tobacco retailers; Caliza adds weekend brunch; a pup on the run and a happy ending. / 3 comments
New Kid at the Mall: Mah Ze Dahr
New(ish) to Hudson Eats: the bakery, founded in 2014 by an investment banker turned baker, has five other brick-and-mortars between here and DC.
Picasso Pizza, a stalwart of Battery Park City, has closed
The pizza joint opened in 1996 just south of Gateway, making it almost as old as Battery Park City itself. / 13 comments
Newsletter: March 27
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Where in Tribeca?
I would love to figure out what is going on with this site, but in the meantime, what site am I talking about? / 2 comments
Zucker’s will move across the street
The bagel shop that has been on Chambers and West Broadway for 16 years will move north 80 feet. / 4 comments
Lekka Burger will close at the end of the month
The vegan burger joint on Warren could not recover from the blow that was covid, but it continues in Midtown and online. / 7 comments
New Kid on the Block: TD Bank
The bank took the ground floor of the cast iron beauty at Broadway and Reade that for years was compromised by the construction of its neighbor. / 2 comments
New Building Report Card: Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine
Santiago Calatrava's modern take on a Byzantine mosque also includes traditional iconography with references to the site's history.
Left rectangle ads redesigned
Robert Ripps book
History of Tribeca Buildings
James! Thank you ! I love the photo. — Native NYer / Upon the Palace has opened
So by extension, ill will toward the future employees of Hobby Lobby? — Bobbie / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Smartphones and doom scrolling has sucked the life out of our kids. Sometimes you need reminders like this to really... — hmmm / Capturing the lives of Tribeca youth before smartphones took hold
How many times, on a summer afternoon, did I sit on the doorsill at Dudley's Paw with Dudley beside me.... — John Willenbecher / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Yum yum. Looking forward to going here! — SW / Upon the Palace has opened
Yes!!!! My lady and I have been BEGGING for one of these!!!! — Jack Gaff / Chambers Street Wines is opening a wine bar on… Chambers
so, no RIOTS or claims of a “rigged election”; is that the point? 🤔 — baba galacticus / It’s quiet out there