In the News: Pier 25 Party
Plus: More on La Colombe's new bottled coffee; Marc Forgione expands; Brushstroke rave; a bathroom at 92 Laight; 249 Church loft sale; BPC Library story; shopping for footstools.
Newsletter: July 28
Songs called "Tribeca" • Sidewalk stench • Custom-shirt pop-up • Verizon carts • Valentine No. 8 • Silver Lining bar • Weekday street-fair ban • Sarabeth's update • More
Seen & Heard: BLT Season
Plus: New Sarabeth's update; Tribeca Meet & Greet; 1st Precinct neighborhood party; yoga studio no longer donation-based. / 2 comments
In the News: Silver Lining Bar
Plus: No ice rink in BPC this winter; no link found between 9/11 smoke and cancer; rising sea level affecting BPC walkway; arts endowment in honor of Helene Zucker Seeman; Pearl Street Playground revamp; reviewing Palm restaurants.
Nosy Neighbor: What’s Up With Those Verizon Carts?
"Once I started noticing those Verizon carts, I realized they're all over. What's up with them?" —Erik / 10 comments
What Rhymes With Tribeca?
I listened to 21 songs with "Tribeca" in the title so that you don't have to. / 1 comment
Seen & Heard: Abandoned Child
He was found in Teardrop Park. UPDATE: He has been identified. Plus: Details on the Asian restaurant coming to the Goldman Sachs complex; volunteer for the 9/11 memorial; BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center's 2011-12 schedule. / 3 comments
In the News: Just Married
Plus: Weekday street-fair ban; Caravelli's Pizzeria; "the greatest wine store in America" is in Tribeca; dissecting a loft sale at 58 Walker; Takahachi Bakery; bricks fall from FiDi building. / 2 comments
Pop-Up: Clifton Charles
Clifton Charles, a company that makes custom shirts (for $99) and suits, has popped-up inside John Allan's Tribeca.
Raising a Stink
Residents say the area outside Bubby's "smells like a slaughterhouse," while Bubby's says it's working on the problem. A reader, meanwhile, has a proposal for dealing with sidewalk stench.... / 22 comments
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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