Newsletter: Dec. 5
2009 Buy-Local Gift Guide (Parts 1 & 2) • Party-planning tips from a "Real Housewife of NYC" • Easy $50 for Amex cardholders • Much more
News Roundup: More North No More
More North is closing Dec. 12 • Frites 'n' Meats open for dinner? • "Public School Zoning Mayhem" • Get a $2 gift card at Kiva Cafe • And more
News Roundup: State of Grace?
A new bar/restaurant coming to the Grace space? • Curbed on Trump Soho • Shoofly • BabyCakes at 92YTribeca • Downtown Alliance's "Giveaway"
2009 Buy-Local Holiday Gift Guide: Washington, Vestry, Beach
Cool stuff from Number (Nine), John Allan's, Vestry Wines, Schoolhouse Electric, and Floratech....
A Christmas Frost
With titles such as “To a Young Wretch,” “One Step Backward Taken,” “Closed for Good,” and “On Making Certain Anything Has Happened,” the Christmas cards* sent out by Robert Frost from the 1930s to the 1960s aren’t exactly traditional holiday greetings—and that’s their charm (well, that and the marvelous art direction). Poets House’s free exhibit […]
Party-Planning Tips from a “Real Housewife of NYC”
“You can have the best caterer or the coolest venue," says Jennifer Gilbert, founder of Tribeca event-planners Save the Date and an upcoming member of Real Housewives of New York City. "But if people leave starving, then the party will be remembered that way.” / 1 comment
Newsletter: Dec. 2
Spend $300 at certain shop and restaurants and get $50 back • Mirror, mirror • Arts and crafts sale at the Smithsonian's NMAI this weekend
Newsletter: Dec. 1
Great gift suggestions from Warren and Murray • Best Santa laps • Soho Photo opening • Robert Frost's Christmas cards • Stinko for gingko! • And more
2009 Buy-Local Holiday Gift Guide: Murray and Warren
I like purchasing gifts online as much as the next lazy person, but nothing compares to seeing, touching, maybe even smelling the merchandise.
Newsletter: Nov. 30
Battery Park City's ice rink opens (with discounts for BPC residents) • A literary costume party • Punk history at B&N Tribeca • And more
The Nosy Neighbor
There's a flyer taped inside a door window at 275 Church Street that says something called the MELA Foundation's "Dream House" is inside. What's that?
Newsletter: Nov. 29
Ice-skating next to falling glass? • Monday's school-zoning meeting • Fiterman Hall demolished • Romanian Film Festival • Escape from Precinct One • More









I agree. It’s likely that there is an extremely high use of delivery apps in the neighborhood but one thing... — John Gallagher / Deliverista hub on Broadway is under construction
Will know more after CB1 meeting on Thursday. — Tribeca Citizen / Anotheroom moving south on West Broadway
Sorry, but they are digging them up. — Tribeca Citizen / The young vandals of Washington Market Park
Entitled parents = entitled children. — Cd / The young vandals of Washington Market Park
The gazebo to that slide are quite far. Do we really think small children are digging out 30 year old... — Sue C / The young vandals of Washington Market Park
@John S: Reality check? An e-bike recharge consumes btw 300 and 1000 watt-hours of electricity -- 0.3 - 1 kWh... — Komanoff / Deliverista hub on Broadway is under construction
You would hope the parent or guardian these children are with would stop the kid from doing this, but clearly... — Dellin Betansaze / The young vandals of Washington Market Park