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.
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History of Tribeca Buildings
Bravo!! — Queens Girl / Catching up with Adger Cowans on his 90th birthday
Beautiful story and interview. Thank you so much for posting. It’s a privilege Learning about our artistic neighbors. Looking forward... — DSSA / Catching up with Adger Cowans on his 90th birthday
Relative to other parts of the city FiDi has comparatively little green space, let alone trees on the streets. Further,... — Heide Fasnacht / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
A lot of NIMBYism in these comments. Financial district is basically the birthplace of the skyscraper, has always been crowded,... — Cd / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
One solution to the lack of common areas and too much traffic: close streets to cars/trucks permanently, and convert them... — Ben / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
Typo: before 2010 (not 2020) — stm / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
Before 2020, the area was still mostly office (personally I would not describe as moribund) and actually less traffic. There... — stm / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold