Is Amazon Opening a Bookstore Here?
What's new at Brookfield Place and Westfield World Trade Center: Two closings, a clarification about Sant Ambroeus, and a blockbuster rumor. / 20 comments
Seen & Heard: $500 Reward for Helping Cops With a Difficult Arrest
Plus: The city's "first tea-themed immersive art pop-up" is coming to Broadway; suggestion sought for sushi-grade fish; "Ray Donovan" set; Department of Buildings launches online map of construction projects; Warren Street reconstruction. / 14 comments
In the News: Cocaine Tonic
Plus: P.S. 234's new principal; body found in the East River; recent local thefts; dads meet to talk about how to raise boys; the Washington Market Park tennis court. / 3 comments
The Best Public Art Over the Years
If the Anish Kapoor sculpture coming to 56 Leonard lives up to its renderings, I think it'll turn into a symbol of Tribeca. And even though it's technically private art, it got me thinking of public art over the years—and in particular, the installations that really dazzled. / 9 comments
Newsletter: Aug. 23
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In the News: Bâtard’s Chef Is Moonlighting at Augustine
Plus: A jewelry designer's Tribeca duplex; looking back at Trinity Church's real-estate holdings in Lower Manhattan through the years.
The Blurry City
Every now and then, the camera refuses to focus, and I find the result transfixing. / 2 comments
Mandarin Immersion Preschool Prep Open House At Reade Street Prep
Join us tomorrow evening to learn what it’s like to immerse your child into Chinese language and culture. / Sponsored
Seen & Heard: Paper Source Will Be in Maman
Plus: The best BLT around; checking in on the Japanese restaurant coming to Warren; Il Mulino brunch; disappointing windows on Bjarke Ingels's otherwise fabulous High Line buildings; graphic novelists at Pen Parentis.
In the News: Cast Iron House Got a $45 Million Loan
Plus: New York Times takes two stars away from Nobu; Citi Bike to test motorized bicycles; Citigroup is launching a private ferry between Pier 25 and Jersey City; Square Diner. / 7 comments
Seen & Heard: Where Is Paper Source’s Tribeca Shop?
Plus: Construction appears imminent at Broadway and Franklin; mystery wire on W. Broadway; possible bank branch; OpenTable ignores everything south of Houston Street. / 1 comment
First Look Inside the Hotel at 456 Greenwich
"This property will be one of the most luxurious hotels in New York City," says one of the developers of the 96-room hotel going up at Greenwich and Desbrosses. / 7 comments
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If free and easy on-street parking isn't compatible with lower Manhattan, then why is it available to city workers? The... — Elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Apparently the speed limit is now 20. No one would ever know that since the street is usually backed up... — elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Sorry, your lone justifiable outrage IMO is that cops, firemen, court officers and other apparatchiks get free parking spaces. We... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Don't the speed cameras only kick in at 11mph over? So wouldn't that mean at least 36mph? — malcolm / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Meantime, I just got a speeding ticket by a camera going 31 on Chambers Street on a surprisingly clear road,... — Elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Joke or not, that sign has to go. — Marcus / Seen & Heard: Wayfinding for a counterfeit bazaar
Second that; thank you for the compelling history of this building (and our neighborhood)! When available, would be great to... — Reader on Reade / 54 Laight Street in the Tribeca North Historic District is for sale