Swimming With the Fishes
This will perk up your Monday morning: Renderings galore of the gorgeous marine-themed carousel being built at Battery Park, due to be completed by the end of the year. / 1 comment
Newsletter: Feb. 7
The "Bite me" billboard • 33 Vestry • Color Me Mine Tribeca • Prime Essentials • Arts & Sciences Projects • W. Broadway storefront • Robert Mango • Conrad rooftop bar • What's up this week • More
What’s Up This Week
Cowboy Junkies, climate-change refugees, and Mary Tyler Moore's bra are just a few of the highlights on this week’s agenda.
In the News: FiDi Rebound
Plus: New tenant for old Goldman Sachs building; Condé Nast lease getting closer; Park51 imam leaves; Super Bowl cookie forecast.
Arts & Sciences Projects
"We think of it as a curatorial space," says Philip Tomaru, cofounder of Arts & Sciences Projects. "We don't necessarily have a commercial intent." There's an open house today with coffee and treats.
33 Vestry Unveiled
Well, partially. At least we can get a much better sense of what the façade is going to end up looking like. / 1 comment
The “Bite Me” Billboard
"Do you know anything about the new huge advertisement on the corner of West Broadway and Warren that's basically a close-up of a woman's cleavage?" emailed Hope Flamm. / 7 comments
In the News: Sex-Trade Chart
Now we know. Plus: Paul Liebrandt documentary; the Flea reviewed; mysterious mid-river work; a profile of Lot-Less. / 1 comment
Where in Tribeca…?
Know where this photo was shot? I bet you do. Nonetheless, prove it in the comments. [Updated with the answer.] / 4 comments
What’s in Store for West Broadway?
A big chunk of storefront at 40 Worth—a.k.a. 220 Church—has been freed up (at the expense of that strange mock supermarket). Now what? / 1 comment
New Kid on the Block: Color Me Mine
"I love art," says Yanping Chen, owner of the new Color Me Mine Tribeca on Reade. "I appreciate all different kinds of art, especially art that has individual character." / 7 comments
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History of Tribeca Buildings
Glad to read the clarifying comment by Judy Epstein Gage, and glad to hear David Gage will be staying in... — Marcus / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood
I grew up in a neighborhood with basement bagel, bakeries, long, narrow, bagel, ovens, bagelmeister’s, who really knew their craft.... — A. / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
In our house the cart bagels are what we call "cake bagels", barely 1 step up from Lender's frozen bagels.... — Nicole Vianna / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Unfortunately this is true about virtually every public works project in the city. Take a walk around all of the... — Reademan / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City
This bagel Baedeker doesn't even include the ubiquitous food carts that vend breakfast essentials, including - say it - bagels.... — Gary / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Don’t ask me how I have this connection, but I’ve spoken to the construction manager 1:1 before (he didn't know... — Upset BPC Resident / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City
Thank you for the article about the move of our primary retail and repair business, Finlay and Gage, from Tribeca... — Judy Epstein Gage / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood