I've been living in Tribeca for over 20 years and it saddens me that a walk to the park is filled with a vast amount of homeless people sleeping in the street. Never have I seen it so bad in this neighborhood. Especially on broadway covering worth street, Duane street, trade street... up until Barclay. The chase bank has homeless people sleeping in there. What can be done??? — Sandra on In the News: Summer Streets Kicks Off This Saturday

Wow. Really fascinating. Is it me or did the streets look cleaner then? It would be hard to believe. — Janet on Tribeca Then & Now: Part 1

TRIRAQ is what they painted. — James on Seen & Heard: Tablao’s Farewell Note

Yes. I recently visited a family who live on the 35th floor. — jane freeman on Seen & Heard: Tablao’s Farewell Note

I am LOVING City Acres for their stalls--- Cinnamon Snail, Beyond Sushi ----- AMAZING! — A. N. on In the News: Governors Island to Stay Open Through October

The erasing of the mural is not correct. Someone put some huge graffiti at the bottom of the mural in red letters, most of which were indiscernible, but which included the word "Iraq." The white paint is covering where the red graffiti was. — A. N. on Seen & Heard: Tablao’s Farewell Note

a large part of the population use "prepaid" cards because they are not in a position to maintain a bank account. the fees on these can be substantial and the clearing time to deposit a check on them is unconscionable. their are countless ways to screw the working poor... — safe as milk on Another Restaurant No Longer Accepts Cash

excellent! love these... — safe as milk on Tribeca Then & Now: Part 1

Businesses have the right to decide what works best for them. Who are we to dictate how they should run their business & how to be successful at it. Customers have a right to patronize a business or not depending on lots of criteria, including, food choices, food quality, service quality etc. if you don't like the payment choices don't patronize the business. They will either lose business (or not) by only accepting charge/debit cards. It is a time saver for them on many levels & also makes them less of a target of a robbery. They don't have to go to the bank daily to make a cash drop and get enough change (small bills and coins) for their establishment. They eliminate the problem of holding onto cash overnight. As stated above, if someone doesn't realize and eats a meal & only has cash, the restaurant had 2 choices, make an exception or forfeit the debt. Probably doesn't happen often. — LG on Another Restaurant No Longer Accepts Cash

Danny is the sweetest person. Always friendly and always with a smile. I actually remember when he started out. Not the exact year of course, but during those early years. I still stop by and say hello. — George on In the News: The Ice Man at Chambers and Greenwich

Were they wearing Stuyvesant sweatshirts? Why is Stuyvesant being named here--is that fair? What is the evidence of that? — Art Vandalay on Teens Are Terrorizing Battery Park City

Agreed! — DTmom on Valentine No. 58

More shops like the Vape store is just the beginning of the end! — DTmom on Seen & Heard: Vape Shop Opening on Church Street

It is a labor savings for the owners and they don't want to deal with the cash, counts and balancing but sometimes I dont want to be counted either... being off the grid with cash is freeing...Not being paranoid just like ithe option of cash. Limiting cash payments would limit my options but so many places that no worries about not going to these 3... — KM on Another Restaurant No Longer Accepts Cash

Just be glad Viñoly didn't grace us with a walkie talkie. — mruptight on In the News: Pier 17 Update

Yo homey, you got a 40 Rosé with that toast? The problem is that if it continues to head this way, all places will soon adopt it. I know you think all the bros in the hood only use a Black Amex, but I like a neighborhood of diversity. — mruptight on Another Restaurant No Longer Accepts Cash

I recognized that location right away, because I love that lamp. Even though it's tilting and a bit vandalized. Beautiful lamp...Why were these beautiful lights replaced with the ugly highway lights throughout all of the city? Wasn't there an initiative to re-design and replace all the NYC streetlamps? Although I would half-expect the results to be even worse, but one can hope. I searched a bit on this and found the following post, showing the exact streetlamp on Walker Street back in 1978: http://www.streetlightsofnyc.com/type-24a-modified-lamppost-walker-street.html — Marcus on Where in Tribeca…?

So the solution to a 4.22 rounding error is to add an expense 100x that (likely more than that). Got it. — Confused on Another Restaurant No Longer Accepts Cash

I guess cashiers are too dumb how to calculate in giving proper change back.. — Harve on Another Restaurant No Longer Accepts Cash

The notice on the menu upfront probably helps to make it legal to refuse cash in this context. If the customer is not warned about no cash being accepted until after the debt is incurred, i.e., their actually ordering and eating, and the customer offers cash but it is refused, a judge could reasonably say that the restaurant has forfeited the debt. One example: Uniform Commercial Code › U.C.C. - ARTICLE 3 - NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS (2002) › PART 6. DISCHARGE AND PAYMENT › § 3-603. TENDER OF PAYMENT. § 3-603. TENDER OF PAYMENT. (b) If tender of payment of an obligation to pay an instrument is made to a person entitled to enforce the instrument and the tender is refused, there is discharge, to the extent of the amount of the tender, of the obligation of an indorser or accommodation party having a right of recourse with respect to the obligation to which the tender relates. — James on Another Restaurant No Longer Accepts Cash

Not accepting US currency is un-American, but sadly, not illegal. Look here: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm I co-own the Reade Street Animal Hospital and though the vast majority of our transactions are by credit card, we would never turn away clients by not accepting cash. If we had a $5 cash discrepancy we would never waste even a minute trying to reconcile it. I just noticed a brand new business in the West Village that will not accept cash. Think about that- as a new store wouldn't the owner want to do everything possible to bring in as much business as they could? Why turn business away by not accepting US currency? Makes no sense! — Bruce on Another Restaurant No Longer Accepts Cash

wow, someone really IS uptight. like it or not, that's the way things are headed. what is the point of you "defending" an imaginary group of people that only have cash and are roaming the streets of tribeca in search of avocado toast? — lowphat on Another Restaurant No Longer Accepts Cash

“The last thing we wanted to build,” she added, “is an indoor mall.” —Cristina Carlson, a vice president for corporate communications with Howard Hughes Corporation. Haha, well, I guess its not an indoor mall if you dont call it an indoor mall. — ian on In the News: Pier 17 Update

If one is unable to afford a bank account or credit card, is that person likely to be spending $12 for avocado toast? — Anonymous on Another Restaurant No Longer Accepts Cash

They spelled important wrong... — another mama on Another Restaurant No Longer Accepts Cash