Newsletter: Nov. 5
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In the News: Water Leak Delays World Trade Center Mall
Plus: The compelling argument for the city to take over Battery Park City; Tribeca is "not for starving artists"; remaining 56 Leonard penthouses sold; Macao Trading Co. / 2 comments
Seen & Heard: Yoga Studio Dropping the Bikram Name
Plus: Longtime Tribeca business moving across the street; a new option for breakfast; single-story sales office progress; Salt Shed discoloration.
In the News: Dean & DeLuca Opening on Wall Street
Plus: Key Foods spin-off market coming to 70 Pine (along with a coffee bar); Seaport emporium Northern Grade debuts next week; new cancer treatment center.
Seen & Heard: The Food Emporium Is Emptying Out Fast
Plus: Brookfield Place stragglers; Canstruction event starts this week; Housing Works Thrift Shop wish list; black-and-white art exhibit; "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23." / 1 comment
Drill Fitness is Closing
"The business model for boutique gyms has been shaken up by a rapidly growing web based membership program," emailed founder Winston Fisher. / 13 comments
Another Parking Lot Is Making Way for Condos
The Dreaded Drill of Destruction has been spotted at the northwest corner of White St. and Sixth Ave. Here's an idea of what's going to be built there.
In the News: Crime Spike in Lower Manhattan
Plus: City Council progressives get behind East River bridge tolls and congestion pricing; Gateway Plaza improvements. / 7 comments
Seen & Heard: A Peek Inside the Bennett Bar
Plus: New gallery on White Street; "Law & Order: SVU" and "Gotham" are back; Nish Nush's FiDi spin-off is opening imminently; Citigroup prepares for its renovation. / 3 comments
Who’s Onboard at the Fulton Center
Nine newly announced shops and restaurants bring the total list to fifteen. / 6 comments
Masa’s Tribeca Restaurant Is Back from the Dead
Also on Community Board 1’s November agendas: Mariachi's has found a new home; temporary art installations at Finn Square and Capsouto Park; women's shelter opening in FiDi; changes to the Pearl Paint building; more. / 4 comments
Left rectangle ads redesigned
Robert Ripps book
History of Tribeca Buildings
Good pleasure and entertainment - waiting for you right now...;) — Danielvow / Seen & Heard: The return of the Oculus
The fare increase was implemented mainly in response to inflation, as I understand, for general operation cost. (As anyone who... — Marcus / Looking back on a year of congestion pricing
Didn't stop them from raising the fares. $550 million in net revenue and the public is still paying more per... — TribecaMom / Looking back on a year of congestion pricing
As I wrote in September 2024, when the story of the renovation cancellation appeared here: "This station’s platform level has... — Gary / Chambers Street J/Z station to get makeover
All sounds great! Now if the city would enforce actual traffic laws and no honking laws and other noise laws... — Marcus / Looking back on a year of congestion pricing
United American Land concluded that "the office market [is] not viable at present" per Crain's New York Business. That said,... — James Bogardus / Canal and Broadway corner will get a new one-story building
Ah, a member of that diminishing band of Tribecans who remember the Towers Cafeteria! Of course in those days they... — George Bacon / TCQ&A: Cinematographer, producer and screenwriter Neal Marshad