Newsletter: Sept. 28
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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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Amazing that this vacant lot will finally be developed. — MJ / More on the new building for West Broadway and Warren
All of this hilarious, because there's one easy solution: arrest the customers. Do it regularly, even if to just dismiss... — jfrankp / NYPD raids counterfeit market on Canal
Please keep reporting to 311, every day if necessary, any time you witness the sellers out. It only takes a... — Marcus / NYPD raids counterfeit market on Canal
Yes. If they are violating the parking rules of the block, report it to 311. But I bet these sellers... — Marcus / NYPD raids counterfeit market on Canal
The precinct divide is no excuse. As far as I know, police are allowed to make arrests outside their own... — Marcus / NYPD raids counterfeit market on Canal
Even if no sale is witnessed, can't they arrest them for repeatedly obstructing the sidewalks? It's impossible to get through,... — Marcus / NYPD raids counterfeit market on Canal
I've spoken to numerous police officers about this. They say the arrests have no effect. The sellers know they will... — Marcus / NYPD raids counterfeit market on Canal