Dear Native, What would you suggest? That we warehouse them in jail like conditions as NYC used to do. They had no mental heath services and lived in terrible conditions. Rather than investigate, do something - get involved in homeless services. There are a number of not-for-profit groups that work at all levels of this problem, from job training to housing to mental services. Enough with the investigations. Or do you just don't want to look at them? They don't assault anyone. I agree they don't small very good, but they need some assistance, not scorn. — George on First Impressions: Serafina

No one is doing anything about the area which is unsafe for all especially young kids. Lots of homeless around the area right near sarafina the train the park 310 Greenwich street. I never seen it so bad. Please investigate this mess — Native on First Impressions: Serafina

The must go to community board meeting and everyone else should attend and complain about all the homeless right in front of them in Reade park and west Broadway. That is what the open windows face. The smell on the block is horrible. Why would I want to eat there farting that. It's a mess on Greenwich street Washington market park also. Mentally homeless people — Native on First Impressions: Serafina

I was disappointed. Caesar salad- only thing good was the shaved cheese on top. Pizza bland. Staff nice but over did the taking of plates and refilling water way too much- it interrupted the conversation too many times. — Vivian on First Impressions: Serafina

The serafina chicken salad is delicious but make sure you ask for the chicken to be warm. - says the 9mospregnant lady — Laura on First Impressions: Serafina

I already asked the owner for the tots back and he assured me there would be a Louisiana style tot back on the menu!! — Heidi bergen on New Kid on the Block: 1803

Put the Church Publick tots back on the menu! TOTS TOTS TOTS! — TOTQUEEN on New Kid on the Block: 1803

Thank you Tribeca Citizen for featuring the beautiful work of our innovative, dedicated, artistic neighbors Suzannah, Kurt, Howie and building staff to transform our roof into such an elegant oasis where one feels far removed from the bustling city below! It is a calm, soothing sanctuary that refreshes the soul and provides much welcomed inner serenity. — May Chao on Show Us Your Roof: 53 N. Moore

Maybe some progress to report: I came across the aftermath of another assault this afternoon along the running/walking/biking path next to PS 89. 4 to 5 teen boys w/ 4 to 5 teen girls, one boy taunting an older man and woman, man was bleeding profusely from his nose, blood running down his face onto his shirt. Gang walked North towards HRP, I asked man what happened, he confirmed they had punched him out of the blue. I encouraged them to call Police. I passed along some names of kids to the 1st Precinct, they just called me back and said the victim was there giving a statement. I get the impression it is an open secret who some of these local kids are, hopefully this latest incident leads to some action. — Anonymous on Teens Are Terrorizing Battery Park City

Totally agree, beautifully photographed....I look forward to seeing it in person! TY all.... — Fred Hochberg on Show Us Your Roof: 53 N. Moore

Having welcoming roof escape spaces really makes living in NYC a little less stressful and more fun. Suzannah, Kurt, Howie, and the staff really have put their vision and sweat into this for the benefit of all of our residents. Thanks to all. Jeffrey Hwang President The Northmoore Condominium P.S. Thanks to Tribeca Citizen for this wonderful feature. — Jeffrey Hwang on Show Us Your Roof: 53 N. Moore

Your comment about the building by Mr. Maki (4 WTC) is particularly heartbreaking because I used to be able to see it from my corner every day, and the view was so satisfying - always varied, depending on weather, time of day, season. Forever more that vista will remain just a memory for me. Hate when that happens. — David G. Imber on Seen & Heard: Inside a Traffic Control Box

:) — Andrea on Show Us Your Roof: 53 N. Moore

I love these! Any old photos of Walker Street? I've only found this one so far: http://www.streetlightsofnyc.com/uploads/2/4/7/4/24744850/5186905_orig.jpg — Marcus on Tribeca Then & Now: Part 3

Exactly. This is selective enforcement. The question is: WHY? I bet I would get a ticket if I set up a lemonade stand on the sidewalk. — Marcus on Seen & Heard: Counterfeit-Bag Vendors Remain Unchecked

The cardboard seems to be stashed against the building (old Duane Reade building / former bank) at night. Why doesn't building management discard it all? — Marcus on Seen & Heard: Counterfeit-Bag Vendors Remain Unchecked

Just stunning. The bldg population should be thankful to her on such a great vision. Very cool. — Howie Mash on Show Us Your Roof: 53 N. Moore

Church St. Immediately south of 56 Leonard. — sara on Where in Tribeca…?

#8 is definitely Chambers. I see how #7 is captioned on the NYPL site, and agree it is actually Warren Street. 140 West (the Verizon building is between Vesey and Barclay, the "union" building (World Telegraph? in photo) is between Barclay and Murray, so logically two more streets would make it Chambers street (https://goo.gl/maps/neqdYwBQbgt). However, the current alignment of Murray street is different than it was when the photo was taken. At that time it was parallel to Warren, and Park Place continued to West street, but that section was called Robinson street in 1854 (http://maps.nypl.org/warper/maps/7304#Preview_tab). Bernice Abbott's (who took that picture) book, Changing New York, published in 1936 (and reprinted 1997) clearly shows the location of the image on a map (p. 124) as the middle of West street at Warren. It also shows Robinson street, which was by then called Park Pl. I am guessing the moving of Murray street and the erasure of that stretch of Park Pl occurred some time in the late 60's or early 70s when most of western Washington Market was destroyed (and other streets like the stretch of Washington, and western ends of Beach, Franklin, Jay, Duane, and Reade, as well as Caroline street were demapped). — Robert Ripps on Seen & Heard: Peeking Inside Greca

And if I set up a tripod on an empty sidewalk, without a permit, the cops would give me a ticket... — Robert Ripps on Seen & Heard: Counterfeit-Bag Vendors Remain Unchecked

In the wake (no pun intended) of Sandy, Verizon's CEO described the damage to copper lines as a huge opportunity: "Now our strategy here going forward which I think is important for investors is that where we have damaged copper cable, we are not replacing it. We are going in with fiber. In Broad Street, that is literally the entire feeder cable will be converted over to fiber. And I think that will help us in a number of ways. We have got that platform then that we can build on but the businesses will be able to add services, higher-speed services, change their services much more easily than we could in a copper environment. It will reduce our maintenance costs dramatically. [...] "But more often than not when we move a customer off of voice onto FiOS, they take either a double play or a triple play right after that because I think they have seen the resiliency of those networks. FiOS, the minute power came back, FiOS was back up in the majority of the cases. And the same thing with wireless. I mean, when we have an event like this, we have a tendency to a see a shift in share because of the resilience of our networks. So our plan is to take advantage of this disruption if you will in our operations to accelerate these platform expansions and I think it will serve us very well." http://www22.verizon.com/idc/groups/public/documents/adacct/vz-transcript-2012-12-04.pdf — James on In the News: Trump Expected to Snarl Traffic

Happy to hear this, though I've never quite worked out the business model of that place... — AMB on R & Company’s Spectacular Expansion

The distribution center for the Canal St. bag vendors is around the corner on Lispenard which gets backed up when their delivery vehicles double park to unload. These guys hang out there all day on big pieces of cardboard which block the sidewalk. They mostly seem to eat food from the Halal cart on Broadway which comes in styrofoam containers that end up blowing up and down Lispenard in the wind. In the most heavily taxed place in America they get away with paying no sales or income taxes. Multiple 311 calls over several years have yielded no response from the City. There has to be a reason they are allowed to persist. Dare anyone say it might have something to do with Deblasio's attitude about identity politics? — lowrider on Seen & Heard: Counterfeit-Bag Vendors Remain Unchecked

David, Can you please post the contact. I would like to get FIOS in my building. Thanks — Nicole on In the News: Trump Expected to Snarl Traffic

I was recently able to get my very small building near the corner of Leonard and Church converted to FiOS, after fighting with the company to get the service for about 5 years. I thank Erik and Tribeca Citizen for providing good contact information on these pages. I do recommend the service _very_ highly. It has only been three weeks, but it has been superb in pretty much every way. And Verizon seemed unusually eager to convert the building once I'd made that contact. In speaking to the managers, there was the strong implication that the company wants to get away from copper as much and as soon as possible. — David G. Imber on In the News: Trump Expected to Snarl Traffic