Loft Peeping: Gerken Building Penthouse
The 6,000-square-foot penthouse duplex at the the Gerken Building includes a courtyard cut into the top floor. "During the big storm this winter, we had our very own full-scale snow globe," one of the owners told Design Hunting.
Newsletter: Apr. 14
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In the News: Le District’s Final Restaurant Opens Next Week
Plus: Another no-restaurant food-delivery service in FiDi; Almanac restaurant is closing; a classic correction about the recent Odeon article; man whacks woman with his cane; legislation to restrict ticket vendors. / 9 comments
Where to Eat During the Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca, and its restaurant scene in particular, is always changing. Let the Tribeca Citizen Restaurant Guide help you find your way: It includes photos, descriptions, and the ability to search by cuisine, newness, fanciness, and location.
Seen & Heard: Opening Date for Jack’s Stir Brew Coffee
Plus: Good and bad news for the Collect Pond Park hawks; new tenant for a former nail salon; Peter Agron's photography at Soho Photo; Rosemarie Castoro exhibit at Hal Bromm Gallery.
In the News: Flood-Protection Money
Let's get that tip hardened! Plus: Jean-Georges Vongerichten gets to blackball other Seaport District restaurants; Q&A with the Republican candidate for Sheldon Silver's former seat; downtown construction office getting closed.
Seen & Heard: Progress in the Former Naked Lunch Space
Plus: A Tribe Called Quest at the Square Diner in 1993; another vacate order; Robert Janz animal sculptures; meeting of the Financial District Neighborhood Association; "Atel" shoot tomorrow. / 2 comments
Alex and Ani Is Said to Be Opening a Store Here
The jewelry brand's founder Carolyn Rafaelian lives in Tribeca; you may have noticed hers kids' handiwork on Hudson Street.
A Country Retreat Straight Out of a Fairy Tale
"This house is a dream come true," says Maria Taylor of Klemm Real Estate. "It's a Roxbury antique that has been completely modernized and updated. It's just waiting for the right person to come fill it with flea-market finds." / Sponsored
Seen & Heard: Rooftop Scaffolding Collapse
Plus: Open studios at the New York Academy of Art; "Ghostbusters" celebration at the Tribeca Film Festival street fair; shoots for "Elementary" and "Everyone Speaks Food"; those Apt. 5 umbrellas. / 1 comment
In the News: More Renderings of 70 Vestry
Plus: Burglary at Estancia 460; Santander Bank robbery; actor interviewed at Sushi Azabu; the race for Sheldon Silver's seat is a weird one; how the Tribeca Film Festival is going way beyond film. / 1 comment
First Impressions: Café Altro Paradiso
Three years after charming the food world with Estela, sommelier Thomas Carter and chef Ignacio Mattos have partnered on a second restaurant, Café Altro Paradiso, that recently opened at the corner of Spring and Sixth. So how is it? / 9 comments










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
The Reade St commercial parking is probably an artifact of over 20 years ago when there was plenty of commercial... — N / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
SW -- I have written extensively about "micromobility" harms. I have called for reforms that could help "powered" bikes and... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Looking forward to them opening, but still laughing at the idea that they are going to put seats in that... — N / Update: Carnegie Diner at 200 Chambers
I don't know what the legal speed on Chambers is, But the cameras do not trigger unless one is going... — Sandy / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Komanoff: “Driving and drivers are by far and away the bigger threat” when compared to bikes and e-bikes? I’m aware... — SW / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Thanks for article...such a ugly site walking out the front door...and wondering when it will end!!! — Vivian / Nosy Neighbor: What’s going on in the construction yard on Harrison?