Acclaimed Yakitori Restaurant to Open Here
Last year, the New York Times gave Torishin a three-star rave: "Just a few skewers are enough to expand your sense of what’s possible in the department of chicken."
In the News: Harvey Weinstein’s Casting Couch
Plus: Higher-end convenience store opened on Lafayette; Greenwich Street building to have "a kind of scarification" and squircle windows.
Seen & Heard: DanceBody is Opening a Tribeca Studio
Plus: The 1st Precinct's new Neighborhood Coordination Officers; World Trade Center Greenmarket to move indoors; Louie Anderson stand-up; "Bucket o’Blood Cabaret" at the Flea.
Hope Dims for the Holland Tunnel Traffic Study
The study is now estimated to take at least two years. Sometime next spring, the city will make attempts at short-term improvements. / 7 comments
Newsletter: Oct. 22
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In the News: Hollywood Director’s Tribeca Penthouse
Plus: "Fearless Girl" sculpture to go to Europe for a while; largest Royal Navy ship is in town; "Fiddler on the Roof" extended one last time.
Seen & Heard: Another Japanese Restaurant Is Opening Here
Plus: Funky lighting at 56 Leonard; fancy Japanese barbershop in Soho; new bike pod in FiDi; "Little Shop of Horrors" screening and Q&A with director Frank Oz. / 2 comments
Seen & Heard: Wisefish Poké Has Soft-Opened
Plus: Big Gay Ice Cream's permanent Seaport District shop; Hitchcock-inspired window installations; another look at the new building at Washington and Desbrosses; after-school portraits.
Tribeca Then and Now: The Unknowns (Part 4)
Many of Jane Freeman's photos from the 1980s and 1990s were taken at locations I've been unable to identify. Feel free to weigh in. / 14 comments
In the News: History of a Greenwich Street Building
Plus: The former Ritz-Carlton hotel was sold; Stephen Mueller's "funny, radiant, sexy, quasi-abstractions"; Todd Solodnz's play at the Flea.
Seen & Heard: North End Grill’s Last Day
Plus: Blue Bottle's Hudson Square café is open; Sola Lab opens next week; first rendering for the new building at 77 Charlton; a hearing about property tax increases. / 14 comments
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The street vendors are only part of the problem. The real issue to solve is why aren’t the importers and... — Larry / Counterfeit sales on Broadway are worse than ever
I completely agree with you about the loss of hardware stores and Dick's is a good one. I currently use... — Heide Fasnacht / In the News: A 70-year-old Fidi hardware store faces closure
I live on Lispenard and these guys really bother me. They block the sidewalks. They gobble up the on street... — lowrider / Counterfeit sales on Broadway are worse than ever
I was sorry to read about Dick's Hardware, another storied downtown business threatened with extinction. As a hardware store employee... — Gary / In the News: A 70-year-old Fidi hardware store faces closure
The solution is to have a nice local market or farmers market there before they setup early in morning — Alex / Counterfeit sales on Broadway are worse than ever
Definitely mostly tourists. I've taken to telling them that there are still pancakes at lots of other places that don't... — Elizabeth / Seen & Heard: An all-time record at Bubby’s?
I can’t wait for Friedman’s to open so that the neighborhood can do out for weekend brunch again. — Bec / Seen & Heard: An all-time record at Bubby’s?