Newsletter: Feb. 8
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In the News: Tent Hotel on Governors Island
Plus: Tetsu is now serving lunch; CTL Electronics and the fight to save cathode ray tube televisions; Fourteenjay founder on opening a salon in the city; more thefts; big new FiDi pub; affordable housing (and the lack thereof). / 1 comment
Seen & Heard: Y7 Yoga Studio Opens Monday
Plus: Udon restaurant coming to Macdougal Street; White Street storefront listing; Odin menswear shop has closed; the doors of downtown; trash mountain in the Oculus. / 2 comments
New Kid on the Block: Lymbr
Lymbr is a new chain of stretching studios where therapists isolate specific muscles with short, active stretches no longer than two seconds each, rather than static or sustained stretches that can lead to injury.
Seen & Heard: Has Haus Closed?
Plus: Seven kestrels spotted; Mardi Gras week at 1803 restaurant; Good Stock soup delivery; "Succession" shoot; anyone attending tonight's CB1 meeting? / 2 comments
In the News: Taylor Swift Purchase Confirmed
Plus: Cuomo wants to add restrictions to the Battery Park City Authority governance bill; more on the gallery opening on White Street; Brooklyn Bridge Beach is still stalled. / 2 comments
Nosy Neighbor: What Gives With This Window at 1 World Trade Center?
"Is it a lightning rod mechanism? Is it from the time window washers got stuck on the building? Is it a window that can be removed from the inside to evacuate?" —A.
In the News: Governors Island Design Competition Winner
Plus: The demolished building depicted in a P.S. 234 plaque; history of the J. Crew Liquor Store building; dominatrix on a FiDi kidnapping gone wrong.
Seen & Heard: New Café in Soho
Plus: Houseman's chef is working on a cookbook; Franklin Street mystery officially solved; renting a gallery for your pop-up; 1 Beekman is three-quarters to the top.
Did Taylor Swift Buy Yet Another Apartment?
Someone has dramatically overpaid for #2N at 155 Franklin—and the evidence points, if lightly, toward Swift. (Update: Now the New York Post says "sources confirmed" it was her.) / 8 comments
Newsletter: Feb. 5
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Progress at Trader Joe’s Soho Store!
I've been watching the wrong storefront: The Trader Joe's in Soho is opening on Spring, not at the corner of Sixth Avenue. You'll be digging into a tub of Crispy Crunch Chocolate Chip Cookies before you know it. / 10 comments
Left rectangle ads redesigned
Robert Ripps book
History of Tribeca Buildings
Not surprised to see anyone opposed to Momdani called out as a "racist" by elite Tribecans with luxury beliefs. — lowrider / Mamdani wins mayoral race; Cuomo takes Tribeca
No, but all indications are that you either think class and race or the same thing or don't know what... — Talg / Mamdani wins mayoral race; Cuomo takes Tribeca
I, for one, am excited to see a mayor-elect who clearly loves the city, recognizes what makes it work, and... — malcolm / Mamdani wins mayoral race; Cuomo takes Tribeca
I started exploring Tribeca in the late 1970's and began working here full time in 1980. I remember the old... — Gary / Books of Tribeca: New Art, Old Buildings: Stories from Hal Bromm’s Tribeca
Not a race. Just a bunch of folks who are way too entitled — Don / Mamdani wins mayoral race; Cuomo takes Tribeca
Happy to be moving out of our Tribeca loft after 46 years. This neighborhood has become toxic after starting out... — Don / Mamdani wins mayoral race; Cuomo takes Tribeca
You think rich people are a race don’t you? — Cd / Mamdani wins mayoral race; Cuomo takes Tribeca