Seen & Heard: Irving Farm Is Opening a Fulton Center Café
Plus: Checking in on the Franklin Place condo; Haus giving up its windows for advertising; the new drugstore is a Duane Reade and a Walgreens; "The Affair" can't quit us; where are these Tribecans now? / 1 comment
In the News: Four Seasons Restaurant Could Be Atop FiDi Tower
Plus: More details on the 70-story building coming to Park Place; the Howard Hughes Corporation ditches its plan for a glass canopy on Pier 17; more of the World Trade Center PATH station to open next week.
Lotus Blue Has Left Tribeca
The restaurant has closed as of today. The good news is that it's reopening within walking distance. / 2 comments
In the News: Another Tribecan on “Real Housewives”?
Plus: The Pope's visit to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum; new condo tower will have its own private blow-dry bar; retracing Alexander Hamilton's steps; Racines NY co-owner on wine panel; and the status symbol for Tribecans is....
Seen & Heard: The Prettiest Drugstore Downtown
Plus: China Blue has a new menu; four brass bands on one stage; photo booth fun at Babesta sneaker party; mannequin obsession. / 2 comments
Field Trip: Spuyten Duyvil
Back to the Bronx for some good housepeeking, a walk through a forest, and lunch at an old-school Jewish deli. / 3 comments
Seen & Heard: Your Loft Could Be in the Bernie Madoff Movie
Plus: Nearly ten of 56 Leonard's top floors are revealed; kitten found in Tribeca Park; "Cool Globes" exhibit in Battery Park City; shoots for "Broad City" and Design Within Reach; Lotus Salon not changing; 443 Greenwich's slow progress. / 7 comments
Nosy Neighbor: What’s Coming to the Cosmopolitan Hotel’s Storefronts?
"I see workmen putting materials into the empty café space, and it also looks like they're doing something around the corner on W. Broadway." —J. / 3 comments
New Kid on the Block: NYC Elite
After 13 years in Soho, NYC Elite has moved its flagship gymnastics facility to Worth Street—and nearly doubled in size. But it's still a family business, owned and operated by mother-daughter team Marianne and Tina Ferriola, both of whom live in Tribeca.
Newsletter: Sept. 24
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In the News: Boxing Gym Closing
Plus: Storm-protection measures leaving the west side out in the cold; 1 World Trade Center tenant downsizes drastically; Mysterious Bookshop. / 4 comments
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Is government surveillance really what is most important to Tribecans in the STATE SENATE? C'mon people - streets are a... — Downtown Dad Reborn / David Siffert has won the Democratic primary race for Assembly District 66
Oh, and the "storm walls" have got to be the most unattractive design element ever perpetrated on NYC. Expect a... — Downtown Dad Reborn / A progress report on the work in Rockefeller Park
This will go down as one of the largest financial boondoggles in the history of NYC perpetrated by Albany based... — Downtown Dad Reborn / A progress report on the work in Rockefeller Park
Very nice. What about the streets and subway that flood like inland seas? — MH / A progress report on the work in Rockefeller Park
Thank you. Agreed! — Heide Fasnacht / A progress report on the work in Rockefeller Park
They have completely accomplished flood abatement for the lower west side of Manhattan up to North Moore street which FEMA... — Heide Fasnacht / A progress report on the work in Rockefeller Park
We really need ranked choice voting for these elections. The winner barely got over 25% of the vote. — harryh / David Siffert has won the Democratic primary race for Assembly District 66