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
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Seen & Heard: Dahlia’s Is Closed for Repairs
Plus: Harley-Davidson of NYC gets served with a violation; 56 Leonard at night; interesting building across the Hudson; more on the pop-up toy store; Real Pilates Soho opens next week. / 3 comments
In the News: How to Dissolve the Battery Park City Authority
Plus: Pretend you were an office worker on 9/11; Battery Park City's private security officers to have no real power; World Trade Center mall is leased; Whitehall/South Ferry subway station construction; 1 Wall Street conversion changes.
Update on Food Emporium and Fairway
It's not looking great for either company. Food Emporium will close the Tribeca store in weeks if it can't work out a deal with another chain, while Fairway is floundering. / 16 comments
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Bravo!! — Queens Girl / Catching up with Adger Cowans on his 90th birthday
Beautiful story and interview. Thank you so much for posting. It’s a privilege Learning about our artistic neighbors. Looking forward... — DSSA / Catching up with Adger Cowans on his 90th birthday
Relative to other parts of the city FiDi has comparatively little green space, let alone trees on the streets. Further,... — Heide Fasnacht / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
A lot of NIMBYism in these comments. Financial district is basically the birthplace of the skyscraper, has always been crowded,... — Cd / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
One solution to the lack of common areas and too much traffic: close streets to cars/trucks permanently, and convert them... — Ben / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
Typo: before 2010 (not 2020) — stm / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
Before 2020, the area was still mostly office (personally I would not describe as moribund) and actually less traffic. There... — stm / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold