Cheap Eats: The Downtown Edition
Reading New York magazine's "101 Best (New) Cheap Eats" was a bit depressing for the downtown reader—only five were below Canal—so let's take the matter into our own hands. / 16 comments
Seen & Heard: Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar
Plus: A peek inside Washington Market Tavern; Cercle Rouge's Bastille Day party; "Broad City" filming here; new smoke shop; Greenmarket update; misters at Dahlia's; inside 443 Greenwich. / 1 comment
In the News: Criminal Summons Court Still Unresolved
Plus: No hotel at 346 Broadway; Battery Park City Authority's general lack of community representation; drones in Rockefeller Park.
Seen & Heard: Steven Alan Home Is Not Closing Just Yet
Plus: New pizzeria opening forecast; Batman replaces Superman; the Bullett Shop pop-up has left; Strawberry closing; 1 World Trade Center's red vents.
Newsletter: July 7
The Watercolors of Nan Lombardi • Denny's • Grand Banks • Smith & Mills Soho Sibling • Stacey Bendet • Bogardus Park • Instagram • Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival • More
Seen & Heard: Dirty Bird Pop-Up
Plus: Gap embraces its Tribeca location; a reader gets "Arne Svensoned"; festival for healthy eating.
The Watercolors of Nan Lombardi (Part 2)
In Part 1, we got to see the Tribeca watercolors of artist Nan Lombardi. But she's also allowing me to post previous Tribeca watercolors. / 3 comments
Seen & Heard: Denny’s Signage
Plus: Grand Banks opening delayed; Bogardus Park unveiling postponed; Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings headline the Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival; Times Square exhibit at the Skyscraper Museum.
In the News: Another Soho Restaurant from the Smith & Mills Guys
Plus: Fashion designer Stacey Bendet moving to Tribeca; street closures for July 4 fireworks; new pop-up shops at the South Street Seaport; man beaten with bat in FiDi; Kittichai closing, turning Italian. / 1 comment
The Watercolors of Nan Lombardi
The Tribeca artist has a show opening today at Sanford Smith Fine Art in the Berkshires. "While I am most interested in the older warehouse buildings," she says, "I also like the play between the old construction and the new." / 2 comments









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