In the News: SoulCycle CEO’s Tribeca Favorites
Plus: Prominent Canal Street topper can't clear the Landmarks Preservation Commission; arrest made in series of FiDi bar thefts; Rockaway ferry to be the first of the new routes to launch; "Breaking Bad" pop-up restaurant. / 6 comments
The Plan to Stormproof Battery Park City
The Battery Park City Authority released its first proposals for increasing flood resiliency. The biggest changes are to Wagner Park, which will get a reconceived pavilion and a footbridge, but there will also be new walls and other barriers throughout the neighborhood.
Seen & Heard: Grand Banks’s Reopening Dates
Plus: Correction about the progress of Citigroup's renovation; the roofline of 70 Vestry; new Baron von Fancy billboard; pop-up antiques shop inside Gary Graham's atelier. / 3 comments
In the News: “Nobu Downtown” Opens Next Week
Plus: Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel reportedly bought in Tribeca; Augustine review; Landmarc wins its trademark fight with the Seagram Building restaurant; potential $100 million funding shortfall for the World Trade Center performing arts center. / 2 comments
Seen & Heard: The Name of the New Kids’ Store
Plus: The argument against "Fearless Girl"; new façade (with glass bricks?) for a Leonard Street building; residential conversion on Greenwich; reserving a bar stool on OpenTable; an exhibit of "wood worms." / 5 comments
The Trashing of Tribeca
A reader wrote in asking how we might get the Department of Sanitation to keep the neighborhood cleaner—in particular, can anything be done about the overflowing garbage cans on every corner? Plus: Depressing info on the mountains of trash bags lining so many sidewalks. / 17 comments
Ode to Canal Street
As the street changes, its distinctiveness is disappearing. That's progress, of course, and not unwelcome, but I've been making an effort to capture the street as it is now, in all its graffitied splendor. / 5 comments
In the News: Citigroup Renovation Update
Plus: "Fearless Girl" extended; three-car accident at West and Murray; the city's first new ferry got stuck in Florida; By Chloe's chef has left the company; the Battery Park City Authority's bond rating. / 5 comments
Seen & Heard: The New Restaurant in Truffles Tribeca
Plus: White Street restaurant isn't coming back to life; a photo of Saturday's jet flyover; fashion designer moving out; the big new rental building on Hudson; exhibit of work by a fashion photographer. / 3 comments
Newsletter: Mar. 27
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Seen & Heard: Secret Service Limousine
Plus: Soho Pharmacy is changing its name; stone panels are being applied to 70 Vestry; film shoot on Reade; exhibit about the art of glass pipes; Hudson storefront getting reactivated; the ground floor of 56 Leonard. / 8 comments
In the News: The Pearl Paint Residences
Plus: Big Gay Ice Cream is opening in the Seaport District; when a clown school was on Chambers; the Battery Park City Authority's resiliency study; remembering David Rockefeller. / 1 comment
Left rectangle ads redesigned
Robert Ripps book
History of Tribeca Buildings
To his wife, Didn’t know him on a personal level, but passing in the neighborhood when I wasn’t out of... — Neighbor / Scott Geyer, local artist and dog walker, dies at 69
Ryder is the clear man for the job! Already coming out of the gate with 400 donors on day one.... — Noah / Candidates are lining up for Deborah Glick’s seat
Listing here: https://www.iprg.com/property/132-west-broadway/ — James Bogardus / Nosy Neighbor: Is the Telephone Sales & Service Company building for sale?
I’m pretty sure they’ve done that before — Rohin / Seen & Heard: Coffee Project & Big Gay Ice Cream on hiatus?
Two iconic NYC establishments which I have had the privilege to frequent since their inception, and that have never wavered... — Christopher M / Jerry Walker, co-owner of Walker’s and The Ear Inn, has died
I've already put on five pounds. — George Bacon / Carbs are back in the neighborhood
Don’t forget Seppes Pizza Bar that opened on the Goldman walk next to Shake Shack. Pizza is fantastic, great bar... — Slue / Carbs are back in the neighborhood