The Latest Salvo in the Franklin Place Battle
In a memorandum filed with the New York County Clerk, the condo buyers at 5 Franklin Place ("including many families with young children") are claiming the developer wasn't clear enough about the situation regarding the street. / 27 comments
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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Based on recent openings in the neighborhood, it seems the fad has moved from cookies to savory carbs like bagels... — N / Chip City has closed permanently
The Reade St commercial parking is probably an artifact of over 20 years ago when there was plenty of commercial... — N / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Yes, and the vagrants on Canal Street need to go, too. — James / Seen & Heard: Wayfinding for a counterfeit bazaar
SW -- I have written extensively about "micromobility" harms. I have called for reforms that could help "powered" bikes and... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Looking forward to them opening, but still laughing at the idea that they are going to put seats in that... — N / Update: Carnegie Diner at 200 Chambers
I don't know what the legal speed on Chambers is, But the cameras do not trigger unless one is going... — Sandy / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Komanoff: “Driving and drivers are by far and away the bigger threat” when compared to bikes and e-bikes? I’m aware... — SW / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses