More on Amazon’s Brookfield Place Store
Instead of a bookstore, it'll be a convenience store without cashiers, and "a combination of sensors, cameras and computer vision" will be used to charge customers. / 4 comments
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.
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So so sorry to read this. Although we lost touch and I dont get down to Walker’s much these days,... — Christine Boeke / Jerry Walker, co-owner of Walker’s and The Ear Inn, has died
This is kind of hilarious considering that everything will be fine and accessible by Monday night. — Leslie Lewis / Let the hoarding begin
Sounds like a scam Probably from a neighboring restaurant to bring their business down. Nyc full of crazy owners ...... — BreakingNews / A report of tampered drinks at Casa Carmen
In Whole Foods today, not only was there an incredibly long line to check out at the self check-out registers,... — Merle Temkin / Let the hoarding begin
Hmm,.. reminds me of Covid days but at least there is Toilet paper! — SONIA STOCK / Let the hoarding begin
I really cannot wait. I miss the big storms that we used to get. Back in 2022 storm, my friend... — malcolm / Prepping for the storm
Logistics and isolation. There is a single bridge connecting the island, and they'd also have to work around an existing... — malcolm / New plans and an alternative proposal for the White Street jail