The Times just published an article on a related issue, the disappearing unique businesses, which are either typically replaced by chain stores, or left vacant: New York’s Disappearing Storefronts http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/opinion/new-yorks-disappearing-storefronts.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0 — Marcus on Ghost Town: The Growing Number of Vacant Storefronts in Tribeca

History of 121 Chambers St / 103 Reade St here: http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2015/12/no-121-chambers-street-no-103-reade.html — James on In the News: A Rash of Counterfeit Cash

Good for Famous Famiglia! — A on Seen & Heard: Citi Bike Valet Service

merci' buckets to all. ooops!!! my bucket just tipped over!!! now I;ll have to do another spilled drawing! quick!!! — robert janz on The Water Painter

The Citibike valet is spectacularly good news. It means the end of being "dock blocked". They offer it now in Bowling Green. — Dan Kohn on Seen & Heard: Citi Bike Valet Service

The groundhog is adorable. Hope he/she stays around. — Marcus on Seen & Heard: Our Friendly Neighborhood Groundhog

In defense of John, whenever I see a cluster of brick buildings that look exactly the same, I immediately assume they're housing projects. It has nothing to do with racism. It has to do with living in NYC and knowing what a NYC housing project looks like. — lowphat on The Seaport Is Getting a Big, Serious Pizzeria

The LinkNYC project is basically removing the remaining telephone booths in the city, and replacing them with high speed Wi-Fi hotspots, w/advertising, free browsing and free calls. It's a project by CityBridge - a consortium of Qualcomm, CoMark and Intersection ... the last of which was a merger between Control Group and Titan. Effectively phone booth ads out, and Titan gets digital ads everywhere, and phone calls are replaced with free calling as long as you have a headset. Oh, and you can charge your phone at these stations. Links are currently seen most prominent along 3rd Ave and 8th Ave. https://link.nyc/find-a-link.html. They will soon blanket the city. The Wi-Fi speeds are legitimately awesome. — alee on Seen & Heard: Our Friendly Neighborhood Groundhog

think I need to get on a plane and come visit Robert... — Trevor Pollard on The Water Painter

Roberto, Biso-man and the glyph gang have deposited some transitory wonders in our neighborhood. Thanks!!! — Ken Brown on The Water Painter

Roberto, Love this work. — Huck's mom on The Water Painter

An all brick building with balconies and large, empty spaces around the buildings is legitimately the recipe for what the projects look like in NYC. No one said anything about race or it's residents. And I'm not questioning the pizza! I'm sure they got a hella good deal on the rent (because the space sucks). — John on The Seaport Is Getting a Big, Serious Pizzeria

The best pizza in Greenwich Village is John's Pizzeria on Bleecker Street (no slices tho.) The best slice joints in GV are Ben's Pizzeria at MacDougal and West 3rd Sts. a block east of 6th Ave. and Rivoli on 7th Avenue at Perry St. Honorable mentions go to Fiore's Pizza, Joe's Pizza, and Bleecker Street Pizza. — A on The Seaport Is Getting a Big, Serious Pizzeria

Looking forward to this. I hope Canal Street's transformation will be positive. It's time for all the knock-off shops to go. — Marcus on A Food Hall Is Opening on Canal Street

First off it's not in a "housing project" it's in Southbridge Towers. Nice veiled racism there. Why don't you just say "it looks like it's in a building where lots of poor non-white people live" and so what it if was? Get a clue about the neighborhood. Second this is not a bad location , it is a prime location. Proof is Pizza & Pasta Delight, a pizzeria, existed for over three decades in that location before moving to Battery Park City. Lot 77 didn't work out because the food didn't appeal to a broad group of people like pizza does. Also The only pizzeria in the neighborhood (not dollar slice slop or white cloth napkin restaurant serving pizza) is Rosella's on William St. between Beekman and Ann Sts. so it'll be nice to have a new and it looks like better option for pizza in the neighborhood/area. Ohhh it's not directly on a street, so it's no good. — A on The Seaport Is Getting a Big, Serious Pizzeria

Given the recent comments about the homeless and homeless camps on this site, it may not be long before there are comments about homeless encampments at LinkNYC kiosks in Tribeca: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/wi-fi-homeless-avid-users-nycs-free-kiosks-41597916 — James on Seen & Heard: Our Friendly Neighborhood Groundhog

Too bad it's not American themed? Uh, these people are Americans. Sorry you won't have another Eataly. — A on A Food Hall Is Opening on Canal Street

Como el buen vino usted consigue incluso mejor con edad…. — Dante Leonelli on The Water Painter

Including me. Doesn't mean I'm blind to the fact that this is a bad location. — John on The Seaport Is Getting a Big, Serious Pizzeria

To be more specific, the Mr. Locks connected to that building. — John on Where in Tribeca…?

I am a pizza aficionado who lives in Greenwich Village the epicenter of thin crust pizza. Keste on Bleecker Street is just plain bad! If you want the best authentic thin crust pizza head directly to Numero 28 at 28 Carmine Street (not their other locations) Here you will enjoy killer pizza made in a wood burning oven built by guys from Naples where they certainly know something about thin crust pizza. Everyone working there is from Italy and so are the owners. They use the best ingredients many imported from Italy. Definitely worth the trip! — Bruce on The Seaport Is Getting a Big, Serious Pizzeria

The American Flatbread building. — John on Where in Tribeca…?

Posted about it earlier.... — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: Our Friendly Neighborhood Groundhog

Gonna be a food hall coming to Canal St in Chinatown. Can't wait to check it out when it opens later this yr. http://ny.eater.com/2016/8/25/12646132/chinatown-food-hall — TribecaMom on Seen & Heard: Our Friendly Neighborhood Groundhog

With respect, I must add that lots of people live south of and along the Fulton corridor. — Manhattanmommie on The Seaport Is Getting a Big, Serious Pizzeria