Finally, a Good Ice Cream Shop
Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream has chosen Front Street in the Seaport for its third store. / 1 comment
Nosy Neighbor: Why Do Buses Have Backward Flags on the Windows?
It's an aeronautical tradition that appears to have originated in the U.S. military.
Seen & Heard: Update on the New Greenwich Street Hotel
Plus: Serafina's first floor revealed; Taste of Battery Park City is coming up; an addition to the Arlo hotel; sidewalk hoist on Hudson; mysterious structure on Renwick. / 5 comments
In the News: Kesté Pizzeria Opens This Week
Plus: Sing for Hope's public piano program returns in June; fire in a Pace University basement; sandwich pop-up at Piora in the West Village. / 1 comment
Seen & Heard: Tribeca Film Festival’s Family Events
Plus: Sail the harbor like Justin Trudeau did; local liquor store is winding down; low-flying planes to map the coastline with lasers; theft-themed literary salon.
Join Us on Easter Sunday
Celebrate Easter this Sunday with Lower Manhattan Community Church. Children's programs for infants through fifth grade will be provided during the service, and there's a youth service for sixth through twelfth grade. / Sponsored
Is 3 World Trade Center a Dud?
The building strikes such a jarring note that the harmony of the World Trade Center complex is at risk. / 14 comments
Newsletter: Apr. 10
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In the News: Police Unions Sell Parking Placards
Plus: Milk Bar opening in FiDi; Pace University expansion gets the Landmarks Preservation Commission's approval; Battery Park City chapel faces rent hike. / 3 comments
Seen & Heard: Hookers, Vixens, and Peglegs
Plus: Five Boro Bike Tour notices; book swap at Torly Kid; Billy Bragg in concert; 1 Beekman is rising above street level; Chinese restaurant seeks beer-and-wine license.
In the News: 56 Leonard’s Common Areas
Plus: The start date for the ferry connecting Wall Street with south Brooklyn; Downtown Little League gets an assist from the Seaport District developer.
A Natural Beauty Shop Is Opening on Hudson
Founded by two downtown residents, ONDA Beauty will be a non-toxic, all-natural beauty product shop with a treatment room for facials and massages.
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History of Tribeca Buildings
So fortunate that nobody was seriously hurt!!! — Tribeca Local / Parking lift at Warren and West Broadway collapses, injuring attendant
This argument is a bit circular isn’t it? What was “very necessary” about destroying a neighborhood (as is apparent to... — Peter / The distance we’ve come in 25 years
The Battery Park Resiliency Project is a very necessary floodwater management project that has been fully approved. This exact same... — harryh / The distance we’ve come in 25 years
https://tribecacitizen.com/2026/06/01/an-renewed-effort-to-save-battery-park-citys-trees/ — Tribeca Citizen / The distance we’ve come in 25 years
Would've had to have been kept quiet. NYPD/other agencies wouldn't be able to identify unrelated drones in a flock of... — JT / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
I want to add, like Vickery Eckhoff said, the Lutnick photo is pretty telling. Another person uploaded a pretty normal... — M / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
Does anyone have the count of trees in the Battery and Battery Park City that have been felled for the... — Heide Fasnacht / The distance we’ve come in 25 years