Seen & Heard: “The Gargoyle Hunters”
Plus: Hugh Jackman film shooting here; Holland Tunnel traffic mess; Urban Archaeology's new showroom has opened; more on the kids' store coming to Greenwich Street; demolition on W. Broadway; "Law & Order: SVU" is back again. / 6 comments
Newsletter: Mar. 30
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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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"Anti-Elizabeth" - you are aware Elizabeth is a common name, right? I'm not the same person who was posting earlier.... — Elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
There was a short time, several years ago (maybe 10 yrs ago?), when Reade Street changed their parking rules. If... — KC / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
The Gothamist article about compass is very dumb. StreetEasy charges agents to post listings there, so it’s not as if... — Matt / In the News: Strolling Canal Street
You're better off reading about why the counterfeit vendors persist. https://www.city-journal.org/article/canal-street-fake-counterfeit-bags-vendors — James Bogardus / In the News: Strolling Canal Street
The Canal Street article is behind the NY Times paywall, so I could not read it. But in the flash... — Marcus / In the News: Strolling Canal Street
With all the hoopla over the renewed Carnegie Deli - I'm sorry it's not them!! — Bec / Update: Carnegie Diner at 200 Chambers
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