Still no progress on these "vendors"...I will file another complaint with 311...others who are concerned about this please do the same, or contact Community Board etc. as advised above. This is a disgrace. It's even worse now that the Bank building has no occupant and is becoming a graffiti eyesore as well. — Marcus on Seen & Heard: Counterfeit Vendors Camped Out on Lispenard

Crossing streets in this city has become a survival game. When exactly did it become legal to go through lights after they have turned red? — Marcus on Seen & Heard: The Great Tribeca Scavenger Hunt

Hmm. I don't think BPC needs to borrow brand equity from Tribeca anymore. — Jon on In the News: More on the Forthcoming Jewish Deli

Love you Mikey Flowers !!! — Amy Nieporent on Spotlight: Floratech

I call it Tribeca West. — Greg Lieber on In the News: More on the Forthcoming Jewish Deli

Regarding the homeless woman, I personally witnessed her packing her belonging in a SUV type of yellow taxi a couple of weeks ago. Anything that was left behind, she did so on purpose. — Margaret on Seen & Heard: The Homeless Woman Outside Serafina

Amazing! Who knew! — A on Spotlight: Floratech

I live in North Battery Park City, and outside of NYC, I tell people I live "on the edge of Tribeca". — Dan Kohn on In the News: More on the Forthcoming Jewish Deli

While I think it's very nice people are concerned, I'm not sure about you but I'd prefer not to have needles laying around a continuously congested walkway. In the summer time when adults and children are walking around in open toed shoes (or even closed toes shoes in the winter!) is quite dangerous if you stepped on them. Statistically, there are more shelters than before and ways to get help now in NYC. While it's not perfect, there are options for her as opposed to being there all day/night using. Hopefully she has found assistance and help. — J on Seen & Heard: The Homeless Woman Outside Serafina

Hopefully the homeless woman is gone. She is a drug addict and uses hyperdemic needles in public to shoot up. It's disgusting and unsafe and by the looks of her she is diseased. I have seen her using many times and have seen her needles laying on the ground by her pile of garbage. I have called the police multiple times to remove her from the neighborhood many times but they are useless. If she is gone that is a blessing to us all and maybe to her if she is getting help...but I doubt that. — Sick of her on Seen & Heard: The Homeless Woman Outside Serafina

Amazing piece. One of the best things you've ever published. — Dan Kohn on Spotlight: Floratech

Great read! What a neighborhood treasure. — McGee on Spotlight: Floratech

You're talking about large, corporate, multi-unit operators that are over-stored. The rent rates prevent the smaller/single unit operators from growing. That and online mediums such as grubhub and uber; which destroy operator margins. — Elen Paumere on In the News: The Retail Real Estate Glut

Montauk Sofa is terrific. Great items and a real flair for style. Glad to have them in the neighborhood. — Valerie on In the News: Pedestrian Struck by Falling Hammock

Sophie, You're not the only one and i'm sure that many would comment, but just don't want to put their kid in the spotlight considering there is one more month of school left. This school is indeed a shady business with a shady and unprofessional administration starting from Bridie Gauthier to Ramey to some teachers that are not that superb as advertised by the administration. For starters, in Bridie's initial email and many emails after that, she has not had the decency to mention once that they will be returning parents' their deposits for the school year to come ($5000!), but instead has been heavily marketing their other location (horrible cold place on Gold St) as a solution for all kids that are left stranded with no school options. Also if you "dare" as a Tribeca millionaire that you're ought to be ask for the refund of your deposit (for a school that no longer exists), you will be disappointing the administration as they will make you aware that you are actively choosing to have a teacher lose her job over just getting your toddler child in a random bus to send him to a school you didn't chose (Gold St!). Now regarding their shady lease, I also agree with the above article that it is weird that they suddenly lost their lease when they have been promising us a gym for the kids since last year, which "justified" the scaffolding and never-ending work going on there. Cherry on top of it all, Bridie has showed up to school for the first time this year 2 days in a row to welcome parents to school (and hope someone will show up to their unsuccessful auction), when we're usually welcomed by a guard on a day to day basis, and have dealt with an absent administration all year long. This is only the surface of all other things happening in that sad place that promotes autonomy but shuts down self-expression and transparency. I can't wait for my child to finish the school year, and have that place shut down forever. Two thumbs down. — Anna on Montessori School of Manhattan Is Closing Its Tribeca Campus

Mos Def! — Samantha on Seen & Heard: The Homeless Woman Outside Serafina

not necessarily. it says more about real estate speculation than it does about retail. — safe as milk on In the News: Pedestrian Struck by Falling Hammock

$4.5 million for a 4,500-square-foot retail condominium on Lispenard St seems to belie the demise of retail. — James on In the News: Pedestrian Struck by Falling Hammock

I've encountered a handful of OpenTable location quirks. The biggest of which is "Rosa Mexicano - Tribeca" which is listed in Chelsea on OpenTable. — Andrea on Seen & Heard: Bortolami Gallery Opening Date

Publix would be an interesting/fascinating development. They are fantastic, but this seems so out of character for them as a company. — Jeff on In the News: Whole Foods Is a Takeover Target

Publix markets also has its hat in the ring. Somehow I think that if the takeover or merger occurs it will be regional. If it actually happens. — Howie Mash on In the News: Whole Foods Is a Takeover Target

agree! — A on Seen & Heard: The Homeless Woman Outside Serafina

As is calling it out... — Jeff on Seen & Heard: The Homeless Woman Outside Serafina

In a one-day, weekday survey of the Civic Center area (an area of Broadway to West Broadway, Franklin to Reade; plus Duane and Reade extending to Centre) in 2010, 244 government parking permits were found in use. Only 5% (11) were genuine permits used legally. 95% (233) were genuine permits used to park illegally--58% (141)--or bogus permits--38% (92). The 92 Bogus permits break down thusly: 41% Union; 19% Fake; 16% Expired; 12% Xeroxed; and, 12% Personal effects masquerading as permits (including but not limited to transit vests, patrol manuals and even a sheet of paper scrawled with the letters “NYPD.”) The study notes: "Why is illegal parking so common among permit holders? The evidence suggests that there are too many cars for too few spaces. According to a Lower Manhattan parking study by the DOT and the New York City Economic Development Corporation, 'vehicles with law enforcement permits use 127 percent more space hours than are designated for them from 9AM-5PM.' A Schaller Consulting study, Top 10 Drive-To-Work Census Tracts in Manhattan, found that 'government workers are twice-as-likely to drive to work than private sector workers.' With so few parking spaces available and an incentive to drive to work, permit users double-park or leave their cars blocking fire hydrants, sidewalks, bus lanes or at un-fed meters." http://nyc.streetsblog.org/2011/04/27/new-study-the-parking-placard-on-that-car-is-probably-illegal/ — James on One Way to End the Abuse of Parking Placards

"I would pass her every morning on my way to the Bari studio on Leonard" -- -- while inquiring about the welfare of a homeless woman, has got to be one of the most "Tribeca" things written in the comments section in a while. — Samantha on Seen & Heard: The Homeless Woman Outside Serafina