It was never really an either/or situation, but yes, I did get tickets. — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: Big New Eye Care Office

I think Weinstein may have used 99 Hudson while they were renovating the offices on Greenwich. — andy on In the News: The Fed on Fire

Any luck with the cupola tickets? Or did you bite someone? — JJB on Seen & Heard: Big New Eye Care Office

Marte got 24 votes on the Independent line which allows him a second shot. However, it was low turn out that made it close. And I think if people look at the two records (Marte vs Chin) what has he done? Chin saved PS 150 from being shut down two years ago, and got two other new schools built. Plus got us two badly needed traffic lights on Greenwich St that saved lives. Marte has never set foot in our neighborhood until July of this year. I could go on but only Chin has a record of accomplishments. — Tribeca Mom 40 + years on Chin vs. Marte: Round 2

Eh, Mailroom is definitely not a club. The bar closes at 1:am and it's just a lounge. They had a few wild fashion week parties before it was officially open (completely private and not run by the owner). You can find dancing at just about any bar. you'll rarely see a bouncer stop people from such typical behavior. Mailroom is also in a basement. So I cannot see how any wild parties would disrupt anyone except welive residents. I live next to a strip club and its never bothered me. Welcome to NYC! Please move to CT if you think dancing is crazy. — Lexi on Trouble in the Mailroom

A whine about wine. — James on Le Dû’s Wines Is Moving to Tribeca

See http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/manhattancb1/downloads/pdf/studies-and-reports/liquor-license-questionnaire-fillable-form-2-10-2017.pdf Liquor License Application Community Board One Questionnaire Public Notice It is required that you take one or more of the following steps – including the first one listed below - at least 5 days prior to your meeting with a CB1 committee to demonstrate good-faith efforts to notify your neighbors of your intention to open this establishment. Please check what you have done and attach evidence: * REQUIRED: Post flyers giving public notice of the Community Board meeting including date and location and details of your application, at eye level on your property door and in other locations on the block where the establishment will be located (see sample notice on page 7 and provide photographs as evidence). * Petition of neighbors in favor of the project (see sample on page 7). * Meeting with a coop board and/or building management. * Advertisements of the Community Board public meeting in local papers. * Mailings you have sent or distributed to neighbors. [...] We, the undersigned residents of the area, support the issuance of an on-premises _____________ ____________ (please indicate type of license) license to the following applicant/establishment: Address of premises: _____________________________________________________________ The business will be a ( ) restaurant ( ) tavern-restaurant ( ) other: ____________ The hours of operation will be _______________________ Weekdays (Sun. – Thurs.) _______________________ Weekends (Fri. & Sat.) PLEASE NOTE: signatures should be from residents of buildings, adjoining buildings, and within 2-block area of property in question. NAME. SIGNATURE. ADDRESS — James on Le Dû’s Wines Is Moving to Tribeca

How ridiculous. Tribeca has far too many wine stores as it is. We couldn't possibly need anything less. That space is literally between two wine stores already. — Suzanne on Le Dû’s Wines Is Moving to Tribeca

Any word, when is the Weill Cornell Eye care opening, so happy i need a new eye Dr. thanks — cami on Seen & Heard: Big New Eye Care Office

This looks wonderful! Cannot wait! — Avram on The Revised Design for Pier 26

Eh? Are you a closet Canadian? — Andrea on Where in Tribeca…?

There are other streets downtown besides Reade Street with even numbers on the north side of the street, including as I recall Broome Street, Grand Street, Desbrosses Street, Vestry Street, Laight Street, Hubert Street, Walker Street, White Street, Franklin Street, Warren Street, and Wall Street (the last is numbered from Broadway and increasing going east). Here is what I have gleaned from reading laws and secondary sources* about the history of street addresses online: (1) Odd/even on north/south sides of the street and exceptions. In 1793/94 the first law regulated uniform street numbers in New York is passed, separating odd and even numbers on opposite sides of the street, mandating the installation of street signs and the posting of permanent house numbers on buildings. That said, the regulation is not the clearest in trying to mandate odd numbers on the north side: "Beginning at the next House in every Street terminating at either of the Rivers where such a Street intersects the main Street next to the River and all Houses below such intersecting Street to be number separately beginning with No. 1 looking upwards in all main Streets and downwards in all the Slips on the one side of the Street and No. 2 on the opposite side and so on to the end of the Street or Slip." Apparently house numbers were not even assigned on Reade Street until 1794. One flaw I understand was that they numbered *existing buildings* consecutively instead of numbering *building lots* consecutively, so that both demolition of existing buildings and construction of new buildings between two existing buildings messed up the numbering scheme and then required frequent re-numberings. (Wall Street was renumbered in 1794 to separate addresses into odds and evens. Before Wall Street was renumbered in 1845, however, it seems that the odds and evens switched sides of Wall Street part way along its length!) In 1811 the familiar street grid was adopted for expansion north of the then-established city (with the street numbers starting from the west I understand). In 1838 a law was enacted dividing Manhattan into East and West Sides, along 5th Avenue, north of 13th Street. House numbers started at No. 1 at 5th Avenue and grew larger going east and west as they do today. In 1861 a law was enacted to solve the problem of construction and demolition of structures ruining the house numbering on a given street, from 9th Street north. From 5th to 6th Avenue, the numbers 1-99 would be assigned. From 6th to 7th Avenue, the numbers 100-199 would be assigned. From 7th Avenue, the numbering would start with 200, etc. etc. It is apparently from this time that streets from 9th St. north would be uniformly numbered odd on the north side and even on the south side. (2) House numbers increasing sometimes to the east and sometimes to the west in Tribeca According to "CHANGED HOUSE NUMBERS AND LOST STREET - NAMES IN NEW YORK OF THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY AND LATER" By Henry B. Hoffmann (published in THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY BULLETIN Vol. XXI JULY, 1937 No. 3), "There are four basic types of house-number change which have taken place in New York City. There is a simple shift of house numbers, generally increasing the number of house numbers used in a given distance, and generally affecting different parts of the same street differently. [...] "The second type of renumbering is that necessitated by extension of a street at the end where the numbers formerly began (e.g. Cedar Street in 1829 and Canal Street in 1837 [extended east of Centre Street as I recall]) ; and the third type occurs when two or more independent streets, joining at the ends, are merged into one. [...] "A fourth type is the reverse of the third: one street or avenue becomes two or more. Finally, there is the appearance and disappearance of "Places" and "Squares" as addresses. These are little independent systems of house numbers, often alternative to the regular house numbers, but confined to one block, or at most a few blocks, of a given street or streets, and usually on one side of the street only. " Hoffmann gives the following interesting example of a street merger resulting in new house numbering on a Tribeca street. "One more change downtown deserves mention here, the union of Franklin Street and Provost Street under the name of the former. The original Franklin Street had been laid out around 1800 as Sugarloaf Street, in the Calk Hook farm, and, like White Street, numbered from the west end, with the odd numbers on the south side. On receiving its present name, in 1811, it retained the original house numbers. Provost Street, one of the Trinity Church farm group of streets on the west side, met it at the foot of Varick Street, at Chapel (the modern West Broadway), and in 1833 it was annexed by Franklin Street. To make the numbers continuous, it was decided to reverse them on the original Franklin Street, numbering west from Orange (Baxter) Street. As a consequence, the Franklin-street Reformed Church (officially the Northwest Church), which had been Old No. 17, became New Number 107-111." Note that this may explain why modern Franklin Street east of West Broadway is an anomaly among the nearby streets to the north and south regarding in which direction the house numbers increase. Also it demonstrates that the original discontinuity at what is now West Broadway and Hudson Street--i.e., the east edge of the Trinity Church lands--may explain the observed differences in the direction of increasing house numbers to the east and west of West Broadway/Hudson Street. *Secondary sources: "‘A regular state of beautiful confusion’: governing by numbers and the contradictions of calculable space in New York City" by REUBEN ROSE-REDWOOD in Urban History / Volume 39 / Issue 04 / November 2012, pp 624 - 638 "House Numbering" in The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, Nancy Flood City on a Grid: How New York Became New York By Gerard Koeppel Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: A Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic By Margaret Oppenheimer "Alexander Hamilton Landmarks. The New Morgan Buildng in Wall Street" in the Nineteenth Annual Report, 1914, of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society; Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 35, 1914 — James on Seen & Heard: Styrofoam Snowstorm

Ceiling collapsed on second floor of 390 Broadway, saw a bunch of fire trucks around 6-7pm on Friday night. — TribecaMom on Seen & Heard: Styrofoam Snowstorm

Thanks. I emailed Hector. — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: Styrofoam Snowstorm

Re: street addresses I suggest contacting "Hector Rivera, Topographical Bureau Associate at the Manhattan Borough President’s Office." His office manages and assigns house numbers. They should have the history here. See https://tribecacitizen.wpengine.com/2011/06/02/manhattan-monuments/ — James on Seen & Heard: Styrofoam Snowstorm

very creative but it's hard for me to conceptualize. a lot will have to do with the materials. it seems like too many hard surfaces and not enough moving parts. it's a bold concept that needs more development. the fact that the eastward facing renders show the pier as if it were pier 25 facing north moore don't help the presentation. — safe as milk on The Fishy New Design for Pier 26’s Playground

My interests in architecture and historic preservation only apply to structures over 5 square feet... I guess so. — Robert Ripps on Where in Tribeca…?

Laight b/w Hudson and Greenwich? — Remington on Where in Tribeca…?

I assume that means you're stumped. — Erik Torkells on Where in Tribeca…?

A bit obsessed, eh? — Robert Ripps on Where in Tribeca…?

Luckily, my supervisor likes the Tribeca neighborhood updates I provide him, and this site has been very helpful with that. — Maryann on Seen & Heard: Big New Eye Care Office

Walking by here yesterday they asked me to sign a petition of support about their opening. They said they were on track to open in a couple of weeks and were just gathering additional signatures to show the city council they had the support of the community. I don't know if that's how the city council works...maybe they were just trying to gather addresses for a mailing list or something. Anyways..they seemed nice. — JulieW on Le Dû’s Wines Is Moving to Tribeca

Re: OHNY- I tried yesterday at exactly 11 am to score tickets to the Municipal Building cupola and the Gerkin loft, with no success! Now I know why- all your readers were competing with me! — Robert Ripps on Seen & Heard: Big New Eye Care Office

That was the Market Diner. About the only place down here for a decent dinner in the 1960's-70's. — Jeff on When Tribeca Was Small (Part Two)

You can look it up on the VSV website. — Erik Torkells on New Kid on the Block: Vin Sur Vingt