Not to mention the blocks cordoned off around Police Plaza used for free parking. Somehow, the LA police see no need for barricades. See their open and inviting headquarters building: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ca/9c/06/ca9c06a0f091a0c8f0097650dc3ae7f7.jpg — Ted on One Way to End the Abuse of Parking Placards

100% agree with the observations made here. The amount of cars with these placards is insane and nobody can credibly convince us that they're all on official business. More importantly, it further erodes the respect we ought to have for law enforcement. — Agreed on One Way to End the Abuse of Parking Placards

actually, i think the exorcism is a great idea. bring it on! — safe as milk on In the News: Exorcism Planned for This Weekend

Bravo to GrowNYC for trying to get people to use less plastic. But don't look for its Plastic Cleanse starter kits to be much help. Economic theory teaches -- and empirical evidence confirms -- that in trying to reduce use of a "bad" (whether unnecessary plastic bags or fossil fuels or whatnot), subsidizing alternatives is way less effective than taxing the bad directly. Which is why Cuomo and the state legislature's overturning the NYC bag fee last month was so dispiriting. — Komanoff on Seen & Heard: Our Plastic Bag Problem

Build a wall? — Erik Torkells on In the News: Exorcism Planned for This Weekend

Can't we find a way to keep these nut job activists out of this neighborhood? Let them rant and rave and ruin their own hoods. Not wanted here. — Sid on In the News: Exorcism Planned for This Weekend

GrowNYC has a farm share program on Thursdays, you sign up a week in advance in person and pick up the following week at 1 Centre St 9th floor, $12 a bag. They have it year round. During summer time the pick up location is under the arches at 1 Centre St. You are not committed for the season and can go week by week or even skips weeks if you know you will be out of town. — TribecaMom on Seen & Heard: Our Plastic Bag Problem

I have used these for decades to avoid plastic bags. My current one has had a hole in it for easily 3 years and is still as strong as when it was new. Weighs nothing, takes no space, so I always have one with me. http://www.walkerbags.com/ln.html — A. on Seen & Heard: Our Plastic Bag Problem

I'm more scared of anyone who wants them to go to rikers, a place where human rights violations have been a norm, then I am of the white gang members of TriBeCa. I live here too. Nobody is in any danger. What these kids are doing is stupid, pathetic and wrong but it's still TriBeCa guys. Come on. Rikers, really? Take a field trip to the Bronx if you want to see some real criminal activity. — Donald Trump on Teens Are Terrorizing Battery Park City

77 Fulton is a tough, if not cursed location, as a lover of pizza, wishing them all the best! Any idea of the pop up restaurant thats happening in the parking lot between Pearl and Cliff? — en_b on In the News: Kesté Pizzeria Opens This Week

The Bjarke design for 2 WTC is far superior to the diamond shaped thing; yet another slanted building. Whoopee. But the placement of the buildings is just bizarre. And working around Arad's awful giant drains is like an anchor forever pulling down on the site around it. That's the problem; but that's what the powers that be wanted: a memorial that wiped out all memory of September 11. — Harry on Is 3 World Trade Center a Dud?

What percent of the tenants are NYC or NYS government agencies? I know NYC HRA has a huge amount of space at 4WTC. They broke their lease at 180 Water Street and consolidated office space from 250 Church Street and other downtown locations. This will, of course, be explained as having operational benefits - but, given the City's practice of moving agencies to other boroughs for cost saving and economic development reasons, consolidation into expensive prime Manhattan real estate has to be noted, and questioned. This was NOT a decision made by the agency, This is not a new scenario - vacant space in the original WTC also was filled by government agenies, generally NYS. — A. on Is 3 World Trade Center a Dud?

Eataly's pizza isn't worth the delivery...in my opinion, of course! — TG on Seen & Heard: Avocado Store

A number of these comments are very funny and one or two, completely off the wall. Contractors and construction workers sexually harass women more than other professions? I didn't know! — TG on Nosy Neighbor: What Are Cars Doing on the Esplanade?

A few (of hundreds) I’ve collected. Jay St. Guy on cell: “He has limited weapons but he uses them very well.” N. Moore. Young guy on cell: “I feel you’re gravitating toward assholes, when you have friends who are perfectly adequate.” Chambers St. Young mother to small child. “Oh, no. President Washington isn’t alive. He’s been dead for quite some time now.” Hudson: guy to friend: “Every year I look forward to summer, but then summer comes and, well, you know.” Greenwich St. Couple with baby: “We like your dog.” Couple with dog: “We like your baby.” Couple with baby: “Want to swap?” Couple with dog, “Maybe!” Harrison St. Guy to friends: “I AM into handcuffs, but not in THAT way.” Hudson St. Man to friend: “So let him sue me. It’s bullshit. I want my parts back.” Greenwich St. Man to friend. “It says I have 180 points on this receipt. What does that mean?” Friend: “Nothing.” 7th Ave.: Woman on cell phone: “Your body is starting to distintegrate! You should see a specialist!" Hudson St. Child to mother: “Today when we were eating lunch the fish died, and nobody noticed.” Chambers St. Man to friend: “I was going to walk there, but I just tore my meniscus.” Staple St.: Older man to woman: “What I like about Tribeca is that it’s masculine, industrial and gritty; but they’ve feminized it with pastel paint and flowers.” Beach St. Woman to friend: “I’m getting that brain-dead feeling.” W. Broadway. Guy on cell: “You don’t HAVE the luxury of not having to deal with me.” Café in Tribeca. Woman to friend: “The doctor and his wife lived with a poverty mentality. Every night they shared a teabag after dinner, the wife dunked second. They spent their whole lives circling the block rather than garaging their car.” Standing in bank line, man to friend: “I was born in a little village, in a forest, in Iceland.” W. Broadway. Woman to friend: “You can tell who the tourists are. They actually stop and wait when the traffic light says Don’t Walk.” Hudson: Guy to friends: “The thing I love is that for a while flying saucers were made of metal.” — jane freeman on My Own Little Metropolitan Diary

Hm. They need to update their website then. Spotify just took the last 11 floors available in 4 WTC this past February so it's definitely 100% leased. I believe you may be correct in terms of 7 having about 2 available floors, which is nothing in the grand scheme of it all. The point is the space is filling up nicely at the Trade Center, more than anyone thought it would ever. 2 WTC is going to be built that is not a question. — Anthony on Is 3 World Trade Center a Dud?

That's interesting about 2WTC. But the others aren't completely leased: 4WTC has ~52K square feet available (http://4wtc.com/leasingcenter/availablefloors) and 7WTC has ~69K square feet (https://www.silversteinproperties.com/commercial-office-space-nyc/7-world-trade-center/leasing-availability). And 1WTC has 30% available, according to its website (https://www.onewtc.com/leasing), so if it's "over 70% leased," it's not by much. But that's a relatively small fraction overall. — Erik Torkells on Is 3 World Trade Center a Dud?

That is simply not true. 4 WTC and 7 WTC ae 100% leased, 1 WTC is over 70% leased...so 2 WTC will happen, its just a matter of when. I was talking to some of Silverstein's people not to long ago and they stated that as per an agreement between the PA and Silverstein 2 WTC must begin rising by 2020...and that if an anchor tenant comes along that wants Fosters diamond shaped design then that is what will be built. — Anthony on Is 3 World Trade Center a Dud?

Excellent article. Good job by the 5th Precinct. Hopefully someone who knows how to use Twitter will tweet this to @NYPD1Pct. — James on In the News: Police Unions Sell Parking Placards

Perhaps 2 WTC should not be built at all, they have not even filled the other WTC buildings with tenants yet or perhaps ever. Leave a little room for some natural light from the East and North. Certainly no more retail space is needed as we can see with the Westfield/Brookfield vacant or soon to be vacant stores. — JPL on Is 3 World Trade Center a Dud?

I love 3 WTC too. I think it's a nice complement to 4. I stare at the east side from my apt. — John on Is 3 World Trade Center a Dud?

I completely disagree. 3 World Trade Center is quite a handsome tower. Yes it is too close to 4 WTC but that doesn't take away from the fact that this tower does in fact fit in with the rest of the complex. If any tower isn't going to fit in it will be the disastrous future 2 WTC. Luckily we still have a chance for the original design to go up on that one. — Anthony on Is 3 World Trade Center a Dud?

Just thought it was interesting. And it's arguably more of a Latin word that's now being redefined in a Greek context. — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: Six Restaurant Updates

Regarding your comment, "According to Wiktionary, fetabar is (also) the first-person singular imperfect passive indicative of the Latin word feto, which means “bring forth, breed” in the passive usage." I don't know what your point is. Or what the relevance is. Or why you are assigning a Latin translation to a clearly Greek word. — Bill T on Seen & Heard: Six Restaurant Updates

Great. I have been looking for a long term Parking spot. — PerryR on Nosy Neighbor: What Are Cars Doing on the Esplanade?