Disgusting if this is true. Erik - can you please contact Ward III for an official response. I am all for a boycott if this is the case, but want to make sure one of the "owners" did this. (I thought there were three.) Could also very well have been a sadistic employee who needs to be held accountable. It is possible this was done without the owners' knowledge and they should have the chance to address this. If it was an owner, we should make sure this is all over social media. — StrollerlessTribecaHottie on Seen & Heard: A New Bar on Hudson Street?

I sent your article to Animal Petitions, a S.F. based group that pushes for punishment of people who harm animals. This needs to be dealt with by the First Precinct. — Heide Fasnacht on Seen & Heard: A New Bar on Hudson Street?

Why is Rikers being closed again? Because it's supposedly corrupt and violent? Won't this just move the corruption and violence closer to where people live? That does not sound like progress. — Marcus on In the News: White Street Jail Expansion

Jean, it's #BoyCATtWard3. Please, the details matter if we're going to be successful in our civil resistance. Can we pin the owner between the iron fencing and see how long it takes him to get out? #Selfies! Or bang his head, hypothetically, against the bar top like we're making some speciality, overpriced, overthought drink? #HappyHour! — Jim Smithers on Seen & Heard: A New Bar on Hudson Street?

Jim Smithers, I'm with you. I've lived in Tribeca for 22 years and have a few friends myself, all of which I will tell. To hear he did this makes me sick, what a disgusting thing to do. #BoycottWard3 — Jean Powers on Seen & Heard: A New Bar on Hudson Street?

This jail plan so makes me want to spend millions to live in one of the new condos coming to 137 Centre Street. — James on In the News: White Street Jail Expansion

The owner of Ward 3 is a colossal a-hole. Couldn't take a couple of minutes and call a local animal rescue? Ward 3 is dead to me and all of my 2-3 friends. #BadLuck #BoycattWard3 — Jim Smithers on Seen & Heard: A New Bar on Hudson Street?

The closing of Rikers is a positive move, and long overdo. Each community will now have its incarcerated citizens within walking distance to there homes, making visiting easier. I know traffic will be impacted, along with more placards, but do we really want to keep Rikers open? I think not. — George on In the News: White Street Jail Expansion

I think Broadway Market Co. was the flea market at 483 Broadway, the old Yellow Rat Bastard space in SoHo. It was a pretty good flea market. They had to move out for TJ Maxx. — Josh on Seen & Heard: A New Bar on Hudson Street?

Re: Staten Island Express Bus Routes. This is such a terrible idea, routing 6-12 buses an hour during rush hour through predominately residential streets where there are entrances to Asphalt Green, an elementary school and a middle school. Those streets are sufficiently congested with school buses and other traffic in the mornings. It would seem to make so much more sense to have the buses turn from West to Vesey to North End then back out on Murray streets, basically a circle around Goldman and a block closer to Brookfield. If this is a drop-off/pick-up, most of these commuters are likely working in the offices around there in any event. — Kacee on In the News: Video Ads You Can’t Silence Are Coming to Uber and Lyft

Judging from the sign below it, it's the fire sprinkler alarm. — Makes You Go Hmmm.... on Where in Tribeca…?

Here's a nosy neighbor question: What is that thing? — Will Meyerhofer on Where in Tribeca…?

If the content wins over enough riders and drivers earn a lot from it, unlike the yellow cabs, it could work. I understand it's a 60/40 ad revenue split to the drivers, but it's not a lot in absolute terms to start. "Uber and Lyft drivers, who have complained about shrinking incomes in recent years, will earn about $100 to $200 per month from the screens — but that could go up, Bellefuille said." — James on In the News: Video Ads You Can’t Silence Are Coming to Uber and Lyft

Wouldn't any Uber or Lyft driver signing up for these ads simply get one-star ratings from their riders and risk being kicked off the service as a result? — JJB on In the News: Video Ads You Can’t Silence Are Coming to Uber and Lyft

I think it is the space that PJ Clarks does not use. It is the South West side of the building with a bit of outdoor space. It was originally going to be a celebrity chef but they pulled out. — TK on Seamore’s Is Opening in Brookfield Place

Moviepass is great! Everyone in NYC should be aware of it. $9.95 per month (or $7 on an annual subscription). Covers 91% of movie theaters. You can see one 2D movie per day. Main hitch - you can only BU y tickets day of, in person. So Roxy is the first NYC theater where you can buy the tickets online. The CEO’s comment (he’s a founder of Netflix) was said to be a joke. No indication they’d actually be able to do it. — Iris on Seen & Heard: Greta Got Its Liquor License

my guess is that the fire at 108 Leonard will "inadvertently" damage the clock and its mechanism and thus save them the trouble of dealing with Landmarks and having to preserve it. — Old guy in Tribeca on Seen & Heard: More Details on the Warren Street Restaurant

If I’m not mistaken, TED is actually in Hudson Square, on Hudson just above Spring. — HCR on In the News: Truffles Could Get Converted to Condos

MoviePass, is apparently, something to be concerned about if you value your privacy https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/03/11/0831205/moviepass-wants-to-gather-a-whole-lot-of-data-about-its-users — A. on Seen & Heard: Greta Got Its Liquor License

New York Times Review: ‘Breitwisch Farm’ Brings Chekhov to Wisconsin https://nyti.ms/2tFHK7o — James on Seen & Heard: This 1910 Building Will Be Spared

I walked by Seamore's on Kenmore once and it seemed REALLY noisy. Is that true? — KP on Seamore’s Is Opening in Brookfield Place

See also: 11. "Property" means and includes the land, the building and all other improvements thereon, (i) owned in fee simple absolute, or (ii) in the case of a condominium devoted exclusively to non-residential purposes, held under a lease or sublease, or separate unit leases or subleases, the unexpired term or terms of which on the date of recording of the declaration shall not be less than thirty years, or (iii) in the case of a qualified leasehold condominium, held under a lease or sublease, or separate unit leases or subleases, the unexpired term or terms of which on the date of recording of the declaration shall not be less than fifty years, and all easements, rights and appurtenances belonging thereto, and all other property, personal or mixed, intended for use in connection therewith, which have been or are intended to be submitted to the provisions of this article. [...] 14. "Unit" means a part of the property intended for any type of use or uses, and with an exit to a public street or highway or to a common element or elements leading to a public street or highway, and may include such appurtenances as garage and other parking space, storage room, balcony, terrace and patio, but in no event may utility facilities such as those for water or sewerage treatment or power generation appear as single units. [...] 16. "Unit owner" means the person or persons owning a unit in fee simple absolute or, in the case either (i) of a condominium devoted exclusively to non-residential purposes, or (ii) a qualified leasehold condominium, owning a unit held under a lease or sublease. — James on In the News: Truffles Could Get Converted to Condos

Battery Park is one of a few exceptions. NY Real Prop L § 339-E (2016) 12. "Qualified leasehold condominium" means any leasehold interest in real property intended to be used for either residential purposes, commercial purposes, industrial purposes or any combination of such purposes, together with any fee simple absolute or leasehold interest in the buildings and all other improvements which have been or at any time hereafter may be erected upon such real property, which has been or is intended to be submitted to the provisions of this article, provided that, on the date of the recording of the declaration: (i) the battery park city authority or the Roosevelt Island operating corporation is the holder of the tenant's interest in such leasehold interest or (ii) the Queens West development corporation is the holder of the landlord's interest in such leasehold interest or (iii) the Brooklyn bridge park development corporation is the holder of the landlord's interest in such leasehold interest, or (iv) the New York city educational construction fund is the holder of the landlord's interest in such leasehold interest for property located in the borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, bounded on the east by Second Ave, on the west by Third Avenue, to the north by East Fifty seventh Street, and to the south by East Fifty-sixth Street. — James on In the News: Truffles Could Get Converted to Condos

But aren't all the condos in Battery Park on ground leases? — Makes You Go Hmmm.... on In the News: Truffles Could Get Converted to Condos

Brokers trying to sell Truffles as a comparable to 70 Vestry is entertaining but unrealistic. "Three-bedrooms would ask an average of $4.3 million, or $3,360 per foot." 1280 sf 3-Bedrooms in a neighborhood where that is a small 2-bedroom is not going to be attractive. So instead a buyer would have to spend a great deal of money to reconfigure units not just cosmetic upgrades. — Back when things were cool on In the News: Truffles Could Get Converted to Condos