In the News: Balloon Commute
Plus: Beekman Tower video; Carmellini in food spat; more 5 Beekman photos; New York State pulling out of 1WTC?; the new Pace dorm; 9/11 documentary; Stuzzicheria.
Seen & Heard: New Tea Shop
Plus: Gym deal; Babesta discount; swell cookie; Hudson River Park opportunity; Printing House gym; score one for the Patriot.
In the News: Danny Meyer Rumor
Plus: 9/11 health bill signed; Bouley tasting menu; Trinity Real Estate Q&A; East River Waterfront Park opening delayed; Highlights in Jazz; courtroom artist interviewed; artist Jonathan Waite; Project Rebirth.
Serene Scenes of Winter
Leave it to a Swedish expat to see the beauty of winter: Photographer Ellinor Stigle took these crisp, monochromatic images on Christmas morning, when she and her mother were walking Ellinor's dog in Hudson River Park. / 1 comment
Newsletter: Jan. 3
2010 openings and closings • What's up this week • Beware the doorflowers • The Best of 2010 • And more
Seen & Heard: New Gym
Plus: Deals on Jazzercise, Bootcamp Republic, and Music for Aardvarks; party at Brick.
In the News: Half-Naked Firefighters
Plus: Schools, schools, and schools; Bethenny Frankel; artist Alexis Rockman; Let There Be Neon; the WTC and its third-quarter construction goals.
What’s Up This Week
Fresh jokes, kindhearted Muslims, and zombies are just three of the highlights on this week's agenda.
2010 Openings and Closings
A heck of a lot opened last year—but, alas, quite a bit closed, too. And one restaurant managed to do both. / 2 comments
Best of 2010: Part 3
The final batch of highlights. Thanks again to everyone who helped out! (P.S. When I say "final," I'm not including the lists of what has opened and closed. Stay tuned....)
Best of 2010: Part 1
Some of my favorite posts over the past 12 months, chosen simply because as I made my way through post after post after post, they were the ones that made me smile.









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The best non-bagel shop bagel is Starbucks. I remember Florence when I worked down the block from 51st Street. Loved... — Sherri Rosen / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
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
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