Sandy: What’s Open Thursday
I'll update this post as real-time as I can. / 17 comments
Seen & Heard: Whole Foods Is Open
Plus: Grim news from the Battery Conservancy and in the Seaport; World Financial Center and Century 21 open; another shot at Halloween; Benares restaurant; Jay-Z to the rescue. / 1 comment
Self-Improvement on Murray Street
Do you need help with your respiration, civility, and concentration? Baby, you're in luck: The DeRose Method is opening a studio in Tribeca. / 30 comments
Newsletter: Nov. 1
We've faced jihadist terrorists, unshowered anarchists, never-ending construction, anti-Islam bigots, a startling lack of school-capacity planning, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn's house arrest. We can handle this. / 2 comments
Seen & Heard: Downtown Community Center Flooding
Plus: Aamanns/Copenhagen opening delayed; Matt Bernson sample sale; "Boardwalk Empire" on Tribeca; T-shirts. / 1 comment
In the News: Parking Garage Tragedy
Plus: Baby born during the storm; Katie Holmes; Halloween parade; Seaport dining; Trinity Place department store; data-center central; Jason Binn; Battery turkey; FiDi nightclub, Ward III's Sandy cocktail; Tribeca walking tour report.
Sandy’s Aftermath
Here are a few updates that have come in, along with photos from during and after the storm. If you get power back, please comment on this post and include your address (or at least your block). / 9 comments
Newsletter: Oct. 29
Sandy Timeline • Tribeca in the 1980s • Bread Tribeca • Aamanns Opening Date • Drybar Delay • "Seaport" Signage • Cortlandt Way • More
Share Your Sandy
Send in your storm-related photos, videos, observations, and news, and I'll post them here. UPDATE: Photos are coming in.... UPDATE Tues: I can't update this but you can comment or go to twitter.com/tribecacitizen (you can see updates even if you don't have a Twitter account) / 56 comments
Sandy Evacuation Info
In times like this, I'll do what I can, but I encourage you to get your information from a news source such as the New York Times. In the meantime, here's the map of evaucation zones.
Real Estate Sales Report
Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were "recorded" by the city in the past seven days (ending 10/27/12)—the sales may have taken place earlier.
Seen & Heard: Drybar Delayed
Plus: The Starbucks in the World Financial Center is staying open for a while longer; 165 Church update; medlars and pickles; Nassau construction finished; want to invest in a new Tribeca restaurant? / 1 comment
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History of Tribeca Buildings
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?