Newsletter: July 5
Uncle Mike's Is Dead • Duane Park Is Moving • July CB1 Agendas • Nosy Neighbor: What Is Esoteric? • Yaffa's Joy • Thirty-Story Building on Nassau • More
Duane Park Is Moving to the Bowery
The restaurant—a Tribeca institution, it has been on Duane Street (in one incarnation or another) for 25 years—has made an interesting deal with the Bowery Poetry Club. / 6 comments
In the News: Downtown Freedom Trail
Plus: Bloomberg declines governors' offer; Amish Market owner in jail; Trinity Church repairing graveyard wall; Con Edison and Park51; South Street development plans; BPCers in Haiti. / 1 comment
A Survey of Street Art
Street art is so evanescent that someone should try to capture it for posterity.
Should People Who Live Near Hudson River Park Be Taxed?
Also on the CB1 agendas for July: Asphalt Green (maybe); North End Grill sidewalk seating; a bunch of FiDi restaurants; Bogardus Plaza; renovations to a W. Broadway façade; a new Seaport building; City Hall Park; Pier 25 issues; and more. / 7 comments
Uncle Mike’s Is Dead
The skeeveball bikini bar on Murray—sort of a feeder bar to the New York Dolls strip club next door—appears to have closed. / 8 comments
Seen & Heard: Yaffa’s Joy
Plus: Centrico temporarily closed; Murray Street's other new bar; Mr. Fashion himself; Diga Vision ticks me off. / 7 comments
In the News: 113 Nassau Rendering
It'll be 30 stories. Plus: Cars vs. pedestrians; Cuomo pushes for 9/11 settlement; 16 Hudson loft numbers; Goldman Alley. / 3 comments
Nosy Neighbor: What Is Esoteric on Walker Street?
"There's something called Esoteric at 37 Walker, and I can't tell what it is. Cool-looking office, though." —E. / 2 comments
Newsletter: July 2
460 Washington Intel • Moomah Closes Again • New Kid on the Block: Duxiana • Field Trip: NoCa • Welcome to Tweebeca • More
In the News: Goldman Alley Makes the New York Times
Plus: Inside Fiterman Hall; where to buy stained Bouley chairs; man stuck in compactor found dead; Greenhouse looking at Antarctica. / 1 comment
Seen & Heard: Tift Merritt
Plus: New to New Amsterdam Market; agendas for this week's two CB1 meetings; meet the cast of "Twelfth Night"; vintage photos.
Left rectangle ads redesigned
Robert Ripps book
History of Tribeca Buildings
COULD THE CITY LOOK GROSSER? And a shoutout to all dog owners who somehow believe they get a pass for... — WCJ / Seen & Heard: Chip City is temporarily closed
Always seems strange that so many NYC pizza places can charge so little….. Are they exploiting their workers? Are they... — MTA / Seen & Heard: Love Story starts here
The south PH at 70 Vestry was formerly Tom Brady’s and then Lewis Hamilton became the owner. Any word on... — Tribeca OG / Seen & Heard: Chip City is temporarily closed
Welcome news about a $1.50 slice shop in Tribeca, if it's true. I know that there has been inflation, tariffs,... — Gary / Seen & Heard: Love Story starts here
With the immigration enforcement going on now (I'm being respectful by using the word enforcement) who will use this station?... — G / Newsstand is gone; charging hub is coming?
And now, almost three years later, there is a "Stop Work" order plastered on the board in front of the... — Elizabeth / Could 172 Duane finally see daylight?
Best ever! When I go home to NY, I go to Pepolino. — Regina Leeds / Spotlight: 25 years of Pepolino