Open House October 15th, Plus Preschool Offerings 2015
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In the News: Suspect Wanted in Subway Attacks
Plus: Flooding forecast for Lower Manhattan; Bouley chef makes sexual-harassment accusation; another FiDi building getting converted to rentals; principal profiled. / 1 comment
Seen & Heard: Tenoverten Is Opening a FiDi Salon
Plus: The former Bubble Lounge space; rumored closing date for Saleya; peeks inside 443 Greenwich; buy your Loft Tour tickets now; Tribeca sublet. / 2 comments
Northwest Tribeca’s Next Big Development
YIMBY got its mitts on renderings for the Ponte Equities building planned for 440 Washington, which we've also known as 31 Desbrosses. / 2 comments
Spotlight: Fountain Pen Hospital
"Ten or fifteen years ago, there were 13 pen stores in New York City," says Terry Wiederlight, who runs Fountain Pen Hospital with his brother, Steve. "Now we’re the only one." / 7 comments
Newsletter: Oct. 5
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Flower Power in Lower Manhattan
Need a little color in your home or office? Come adopt a geranium! The Downtown Alliance is giving away 4,000 geraniums as part of its Green Around Lower Manhattan program.
Seen & Heard: Rendering vs. Reality at 19 Park Place
Plus: Fashion hootenanny this weekend at Brookfield Place; public meeting about what to do with Pier 26; TriBeCa Native benefit book launch; appearances by Jason Segel, Colum McCann, and Yotam Ottolenghi.
Vestry Street Is Getting Torn Up Next
Also on Community Board 1’s October agendas: The Tunnel to Towers run; cleaning garbage liquid; Hank's Juicy Beef; later hours for Bar Cyrk; World Trade Center retail; Morton Street Middle School; city tree-planning initiative; fancy Seaport cinema. / 5 comments
In the News: Is Whole Foods Killing the Forest at 101 Warren?
Plus: Photo tour inside the Tribeca Synagogue; local man accused of heinous behavior; looking back at the art and life of artist Robert Loughlin. / 1 comment
Tribeca Is Getting Another Funky New Building
According to the preliminary design, the eight-story single-family mansion soon to be under construction at Canal and Washington will be clad in a glass-brick rainscreen. Rendering this way.... / 1 comment
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History of Tribeca Buildings
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
I pass by 100 Gold a couple of time a week. At street level it seems dank and squat, and... — Gary / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
Lovely and well deserved -- keep up the good work, Adger! — John Willenbecher / Catching up with Adger Cowans on his 90th birthday
My concern is not any one building in isolation—it is the cumulative impact of (100 Gold St, 250 Water St,... — Harry deen / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold