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
Left rectangle ads redesigned
History of Tribeca Buildings
I think you would feel differently if your private moments with your children were being surveilled and photographed. People shouldn't... — Fiona / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
Truly sad. Got our son's first "Tribeca Cool Kids" clothes there 15 years ago (on sale!) and they couldn't have... — Downtown Dad Again / Koh’s Kids on Greenwich has closed
The graffiti in question looks very similar to the same outside of Target (on the never-ending construction barriers) which questioned... — Downtown Dad Again / Tribeca-branded graffiti on West Broadway
Our apartment was inside the "frozen zone" and when we were finally able to return to it in mid-October, I... — Makes You Go Hmmmm.... / A documentary honors the work of the Sanitation Department after 9/11
I was shocked when I was walking around Tribeca. I've been living away, so coming back now and seeing so... — Van / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
Or make it a mall of counterfeiters, like a Needle Park or, better yet, the modern-day Essex Market of counterfeiting.... — James Bogardus / Tribeca-branded graffiti on West Broadway
The Starbucks on Chambers and W. Broadway is definitely popular and it's situated in a dream spot considering the subway... — Jslv / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow