Last Call for the J. Crew Liquor Store
A "store for rent" sign is in the window, and given J. Crew's business issues—including a "crippling debt load"—relocation seems unlikely. / 1 comment
Portrait of the Artist: Alexandra Blair
Next up in photographer Claudine Williams's series of Q&As with people in the arts: Alexandra Blair, of the band The Silk War. "I love being different in Tribeca," she says. "There are a lot of families, a lot of children, and I kind of like being a little disruptive." / 2 comments
Seen & Heard: Gotan No Longer Accepts Cash
Plus: The proprietor of Fish Republic restaurant, opening on Duane; is the Torishin yakitori restaurant still happening?; the storefront at 1 White; paintings of New York City. / 6 comments
CBD Store to Open in Tribeca
Come Back Daily is "the world’s first CBD experiential retail store," says founder Steven Phan. Instead of the usual dispensary model, where products are behind a counter, he'll have a "discovery bar" with samples.
Seen & Heard: Dinner at La Mercerie
Plus: Weekday lunch at Manhatta; activity at two White Street storefronts; Tribeca and Battery Park pillows; inside a Tribeca artist's old-school loft; "Law & Order: SVU" shoot.
In the News: Tribecan Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver
Plus: The Ponte family's nasty legal battle; more on P.S. 150 having to move; Community Board 1's refusal to support a street-naming for a cop killed in Iraq; single mother moved from Tribeca to Battery Park City. / 5 comments
More on No. 87, a New Restaurant on Walker Street
The proprietor is Tribecan Brian Kennedy, a lawyer based in the building who knows firsthand how much the area could use a casual café.
Newsletter: Nov. 12
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Seen & Heard: NYPD Meeting for Tribeca Residents
Plus: Xi'an Famous Foods is opening in FiDi; how yesterday's winds affected the 9/11 Memorial's reflecting pools; new hotel has a big ugly video screen above its entrance; liquor-license application discussion for The Whiskey Tribeca postponed. / 5 comments
In the News: Golf Simulators
Plus: City to start grading street-food carts; new community space in Battery Park City; exterminator made people at the Municipal Building sick. / 1 comment
Old Meets New on Franklin Street
Studio MDA proposes to add four stories with a striking cast-aluminum facade to a two-story Art Moderne building. / 3 comments
In the News: Staple Street Skybridge Is Back on the Market
Plus: Manhatta to start weekend lunch service; the history of 151 Hudson; five injured in car crash on West Street.
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Shinola had a cafe in the front when it opened, but then the cafe part closed, like, 10 years ago.... — PGCNYC / Seen & Heard: Drip coffee at Shinola
Similar background, the same thought. Saddens me a bit. I haven't tried the Utopia Bagels shop on 34th, which may... — Mulciber / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
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