Reade Street Prep Preschool Open House – May 15th
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Seen & Heard: Mickey Drexler’s Townhouse
Plus: Peeking inside La Garçonne and Sweet Green; scoping out 48 Warren's new windows and 84 White's entrance; crab night; street-art carpets; new restaurant on Spring. / 2 comments
In the News: Michelle Obama Lunched at Nobu Today
Plus: 9/11 Memorial fences to mostly come down soon; Soho Rep gets a rave; costume designer owes the IRS; Greenwich Street green thumbs; SoulCycle's bad karma; responders' memorial. / 6 comments
Seen & Heard: The Trash-Bag Teddy Bear Has Arrived
Plus: Welcome back, Chambers Street; Tribeca artists open their studios; something called "Holiday" shooting here; another Shinola store; fruit CSA; Exceed Physical Culture signage. / 14 comments
Demolition on Church Street?
If a new owner can get air rights, the old building is coming down—and making way for one twice as high. / 3 comments
Newsletter: May 5
Brookfield Place: The Big List • Cristina Dos Santos • A New Hotel in Tribeca • Downtown Boathouse • Nili Lotan Pop-Up • Northwest Tribeca Construction • Bridget Moynahan • Barleycorn • More
Seen & Heard: Brookfield Place Food Court Delayed
Plus: Actress buys on Beach Street; Tribeca connection to the Kentucky Derby; new map of Tribeca landmarks; emergency response exercise; fashion couple coming to 250 West; Kansas exhibit.
In the News: Canal Street to Be a “Slow Zone”
Plus: Woman gives birth in back of taxi; "Black Eye" art show; mosaic artist Hildreth Meière; admiring the Odeon. / 3 comments
Seen & Heard: Construction Starting in Northwest Tribeca
Plus: Joy Gryson and I are throwing a party; Sweet Green dropped its plywood; Añejo opening forecast; another Kaffe 1668; Five Boro Bike Tour; a sailboat is here. / 1 comment
A New Hotel in Tribeca
Also on May’s Community Board 1 agendas: Another hearing on the Barleycorn bar on Park Place and Murray; Gay Pride dance noise; Church Publick sidewalk seating; more. / 2 comments
Cristina Dos Santos Is Closing Her Shop
She's moving her interior-design practice to the Meatpacking District. Until the end of May, you'll find "amazing sales and a fond farewell."
Left rectangle ads redesigned
Robert Ripps book
History of Tribeca Buildings
All sounds great! Now if the city would enforce actual traffic laws and no honking laws and other noise laws... — Marcus / Looking back on a year of congestion pricing
United American Land concluded that "the office market [is] not viable at present" per Crain's New York Business. That said,... — James Bogardus / Canal and Broadway corner will get a new one-story building
Ah, a member of that diminishing band of Tribecans who remember the Towers Cafeteria! Of course in those days they... — George Bacon / TCQ&A: Cinematographer, producer and screenwriter Neal Marshad
Great story & pictures. This historical gem should be open to more NYC history lovers (and one shouldn't practically need... — Gary / Field Trip: The old City Hall station
Seems a complete waste of space. The 8-story building made far more sense, and at least it covered up those... — Marcus / Canal and Broadway corner will get a new one-story building
I am so sorry to hear this. We keep losing small businesses and gaining vacant storefronts. It is such a... — SusanD / Boomerang Toys will close at the end of the month
Seriously? Trading a contextually appropriate (and beautiful) eight-story office building development for a one story strip mall on a prime,... — Reader on Reade / Canal and Broadway corner will get a new one-story building