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
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There is staff there now. Parents do NOT like being told what to do. — Tribeca Citizen / The young vandals of Washington Market Park
You do know this project predates this administration, correct? — malcolm / Deliverista Hub at City Hall will open soon
When we neighbors organized to create this lovely )then private) park back in 1983 we had on site paid staff... — Jean Grillo / The young vandals of Washington Market Park
Is the Parks Dept or the Friends allowed to impose fines for this, for damaging public property or something? And... — SW / The young vandals of Washington Market Park
Amen! When you ride around in an SUV all day and play act at filling potholes, why worry about sidewalks... — Downtown Dad Reborn / Deliverista Hub at City Hall will open soon
It makes absolutely zero sense to put what will become a heavily trafficked bicycle facility on a sidewalk, a place... — person / Deliverista Hub at City Hall will open soon
From all the things that City Hall could worry they went for this? so now we are going to have... — Richard / Deliverista Hub at City Hall will open soon