In the News: The Compleat Sculptor Is Moving to Chelsea
Plus: Best Market's owner on the store's closing; recent muggings and thefts; big playpen bar opens in FiDi; that annoying ad barge and similar signage at Brookfield Place. / 2 comments
New Kid on the Block: Kataoka
All of the jewelry is made to order in Japan, with a four-to-six-week lead time. / 2 comments
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Seen & Heard: Independence Plaza’s Statement About Best Market
Plus: Street closure for a private party; actors' union bake sale to protest Tribeca ad agency; Soho salon hosting a talk about Jane Freeman's miniatures; Preschool of Sciences update; a cautionary tale. / 17 comments
Seen & Heard: Make a Little Good Happen
Plus: New toy store, Starbucks, and benches at the World Trade Center mall; Laughing Man staff pays tribute to Hugh Jackman; much-needed traffic island installed; painting exhibit. / 10 comments
In the News: CB1 Voted Against Honoring Cop Killed in Iraq
Plus: Duane Street rooftop addition; praise for the Palm and Grandaisy; updates on four Park Row buildings; the annoying ad barge; Google considering West Street lease; Tribeca-based skincare line. / 6 comments
Best Market Has Closed
Now that Independence Plaza's owners have declined to renew the lease for a school and a supermarket, perhaps they'll tell us what exactly they have planned for the strip. / 56 comments
Seen & Heard: Smorgasburg Will Open in Lower Manhattan
Plus: Cookbook by the chef of Estela and Café Altro Paradiso; cheap fence around 111 Murray; textile art; Pen Parentis's November literary salon. / 1 comment
30 Warren: French Design & Local Materials in Tribeca, Condos from $1.995M
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Quiz: Dead Restaurants
Can you identify these 10 deceased restaurants, as once described in the Tribeca Citizen Restaurant Guide? / 12 comments
Seen & Heard: Remembering a Founder of Puffy’s
Plus: A peek inside the bar under construction on Worth Street; Mmuseumm exhibit is now a book; eighth shoot in seven-day period; Burger King's Halloween special.
In the News: More Chibeca Restaurants and Bars
Plus: A Thanksgiving menu by Frenchette; new renderings for 77 Greenwich (which will have a school in the base); the exquisite lobby in the AT&T Long Distance Building; Gucci to open art-and-photography bookstore in Soho.
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Pier 40 was a little more than 1/4 mile from ICE on Varick Street. This garage would be substantially farther... — James Bogardus / Nosy Neighbor: What is up with this garage on Harrison?
How are they legal to drive in NYC with no license plates? — Robert Ripps / Nosy Neighbor: What is up with this garage on Harrison?
Is government surveillance really what is most important to Tribecans in the STATE SENATE? C'mon people - streets are a... — Downtown Dad Reborn / David Siffert has won the Democratic primary race for Assembly District 66
Oh, and the "storm walls" have got to be the most unattractive design element ever perpetrated on NYC. Expect a... — Downtown Dad Reborn / A progress report on the work in Rockefeller Park
This will go down as one of the largest financial boondoggles in the history of NYC perpetrated by Albany based... — Downtown Dad Reborn / A progress report on the work in Rockefeller Park
Very nice. What about the streets and subway that flood like inland seas? — MH / A progress report on the work in Rockefeller Park
Thank you. Agreed! — Heide Fasnacht / A progress report on the work in Rockefeller Park