In the News: Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Has Closed
Plus: Opening forecast for Taryn Toomey's new studio; the history of 311 Broadway; Community Board 1 discussion about the Battery Park City Authority's plan for South End Avenue. / 1 comment
Seen & Heard: Leonard Street Townhouse
Plus: A peek inside Augustine; Municipal Building cupola tour; checking in on Ward III's progress; learn to shuck from an expert; new Broadway storefront; new lighting store.
This Friday: Free Flowers for Everyone!
Need a little color in your home or office? The Downtown Alliance is giving away SunPatien plants as part of its Green Around Lower Manhattan program. / Sponsored
New Kid on the Block: Target
First look at the new Target at Greenwich and Murray: All but a small fraction of the 45,000 square feet is downstairs, so you'll have to go below ground for just about everything, including to check out. / 9 comments
L.A.’s Sweat Yoga Is Opening in Tribeca
"It’s the little details that will get you hooked," reports Well + Good, "like the lavender-scented cold towels that are given out during savasana, the organic toiletries in the bathroom, and the super-sick music that drives the flows."
In the News: Scenes from a Film Shoot
Plus: Howard Hughes Corporation tries an end-run regarding the Tin Building; the ornate post office building that used to be in City Hall Park. / 2 comments
Seen & Heard: Greenwich Street Restaurant Close to Opening
Plus: Trinity Boxing Club's new studio is open; Madeline Lanciani's Ring Ding Bar; the Bar Works on Chambers will have a gym; keeping an eye on a likely development in northwest Tribeca. / 3 comments
Introducing Six Cortlandt Alley: Four-Bedroom Loft Condominiums in the Heart of Tribeca from $6,995,000
Nestled along Tribeca's most hidden street, Six Cortlandt Alley is now offering private tours of its model residence. / Sponsored
First Impressions: Cut
Almost every other new restaurant in recent years has gone for the hand-crafted, artisanal aesthetic, but this outpost of the Cut chain is far more Vegas than Brooklyn. / 5 comments
In the News: Hitch in the FiDi Arcade Plan
Plus: Daydreaming about severely limiting cars in a big chunk of Lower Manhattan; man dies after fall from Battery Park City building; about the Horace Greeley statue in City Hall Park; "Gilmore Girls" promotion.
Seen & Heard: A Peek Inside Target
Plus: Houseman to test Sunday brunch; Soho Photo's October shows; a likely condo sales office on Lispenard; a Tribecan's webseries, shot in the area; the chairs at the new Starbucks Reserve café; shoots for "Caine" and iHeartRadio. / 2 comments
First Look at Big New Broadway Building
Toll Brothers City Living has finally posted a rendering for the 19-story building underway at 353-357 Broadway (between Leonard and Franklin), which will have its entrance in the narrow dog-leg that connects at 91 Leonard. / 2 comments
Left rectangle ads redesigned
Robert Ripps book
History of Tribeca Buildings
Teaneck here! — SW / Prepping for the storm
Teaneck! — SW / Prepping for the storm
I heard that Alternate Plan #3 is to turn it into a ballroom. — SW / New plans and an alternative proposal for the White Street jail
Yes! Our firehouse on Long Island also sounded the snowday alarm -- along with a noon whistle every day that... — Tribeca Citizen / Prepping for the storm
So funny, I took almost identical photos at WF on Saturday! The cupboards were literally bare, and there was a... — SW / Let the hoarding begin
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Whole Foods is poorly stocked even when the weather is good. It is hit or miss on even the most... — Elizabeth / Let the hoarding begin