complain to the Postmaster — PerryR on Nosy Neighbor: Why Is There Always Trash Outside the Post Office?

This Street Seats decision does not reflect well on the committee. Embarrassing lack of respect for the community's obvious preference. — J on CB1 Tribeca Committee: The Unofficial Minutes (February 2017)

Mine is bigger than yours. (It extends to 28 feet.) — Erik Torkells on Adventures in Bag Snagging

As a Citizen Pruner, I know the bane of tangled plastic in trees. Don't worry if small branches suffer in bag removal. Trees grow back and enjoy occasional pruning. One cardinal rule of Citizen Pruning is "feet on the GROUND at all times". The pole I use has a saw and a lopper at the end. It also extends by telescoping so the extension can never disengage. I think a good tree pruner would be just as good, or better, than the bag grabber. My pol extends to 16' — Friends of Tribeca Park on Adventures in Bag Snagging

Cater-corner from this site (across Canal and 6th Av, in CB1) is a forlorn sizable Greenstreet. Friends of Tribeca Park tried to include this parcel in our scope. But we threw up our hands when, because of adjacent garbage disposal, it became so rat infested that it resembles a moonscape. Recently the few remaining plants were removed leaving a mostly blank plot. Any ideas as to who removed them? Is there some plan for this Greenstreet? Considering the paucity of open space in the neighborhood, this is an asset going completely to waste. — Friends of Tribeca Park on In the News: Sad Park to Get a Temporary Renovation

Looks like they are having fun! Nice youthful touches! — TG on Loft Peeping: PJ Mattan & Jett House

I remember the old days when Washington Market Park had sunshine all day... — TG on Seen & Heard: Upstaging 1 World Trade Center

Wonderful and much appreciated! Thank you. — TG on Adventures in Bag Snagging

Thank you, Erik, for doing this (and thanks are in order for Rachel and Charles as well)...as a Leonard St resident that Church St tree has been on my radar for years too. Appreciate your taking action while I did little more than ponder what to do. I'd be happy to join the next outing if you're looking for additional manual labor, moral support or camaraderie. — John on Adventures in Bag Snagging

Eeek...I tend to agree. I love the LED-ified Empire State Building. Looks great, and saves lots of energy, too! — Will on In the News: Bridges to Be Ruined by Tacky Lights

Ian Frazier is God. I'm a disciple. — Erik Torkells on Adventures in Bag Snagging

The problem with 12 Warren is that stone works best when it is contrasted with a lighter material. The entrance is a case in point - why pile stones up over someone's head when they're walking into a building? It looks dangerous, threatening, like...yeah...the rocks are going to fall on you (which at some point, given time and erosion and lack of proper maintenance over the years and so forth, they might.) Stone can be beautiful...but if you go nuts with it (as in this example at 12 Warren) you wind up with something that looks like a parody of design, straight out of The Flintstones. It's a shame, because the stone itself is beautiful and portions of the exterior are really lovely. — Will on Seen & Heard: How to Pronounce “Tribeca”

Erik Torkells is God. — Will on Adventures in Bag Snagging

I encourage you to post the letter here. — Erik Torkells on An Update on the Five Boro Bike Tour

I also wrote a letter regarding the yelling of the set up people beginning at 4:30 a.m. on my block (White between Church and West Broadway). I was chastened for not coming to the meeting and I believe my letter never reached the Board members. — Heide Fasnacht on An Update on the Five Boro Bike Tour

This made my morning for so many reasons. Thank you so much, Erik, for all you do. — Janet on Adventures in Bag Snagging

http://nypost.com/2017/02/08/theres-something-fishy-about-this-tribeca-townhouse/ A historic townhouse at 428 Greenwich St. in Tribeca above Michelin-starred sushi eatery Azabu is back on the market as a $20,000-a-month rental. The five-story home, built in 1883, is 4,400 square feet with 500 square feet of exterior space. The landmarked four-bedroom, 4½-bathroom property, which was recently gut-renovated, comes with a library, an enclosed terrace and a roof deck. There’s also a new chef’s kitchen. Original details from cast-iron elements to exposed brick remain. The listing brokers are Platinum Properties’ Jesse Klein and Constantinos Katehis. — James on Seen & Heard: Best Friends Pet Adoption Center

There is always trash outside the Post Office because Department of Sanitation does not enforce the law there (or uniformly throughout Tribeca, apparently). This Post Office has not been issued a single summons for failure to clean the sidewalk and/or 18 inches into the street in the last 5 years. New York City Administrative Code § 16-118 Littering prohibited. [...] 2. (a) Every owner, lessee, tenant, occupant or person in charge of any building or premises shall keep and cause to be kept the sidewalk, flagging and curbstone abutting said building or premises free from obstruction and nuisances of every kind, and shall keep said sidewalks, flagging, curbstones, and air shafts, areaways, backyards, courts and alleys free from garbage, refuse, rubbish, litter, debris and other offensive material. Such persons shall also remove garbage, refuse, rubbish, litter, debris and other offensive material between the curbstone abutting the building or premises and the roadway area extending one and one-half feet from the curbstone into the street on which the building or premises front. Such persons shall not, however, be responsible for cleaning the garbage, refuse, rubbish, litter, debris and other offensive material which accumulates at catch basins located within the one and one-half foot distance from the curbstone into the street. Over the last 5 years, per NYC Opendata the median number of such summonses issued to each Tribeca-10013 address is about 2 and the average is about 4. However, 1.) About 14% of the addresses account for 50% of the dirty sidewalk and gutter summonses. About 40% of the addresses account for 80% of the dirty sidewalk and gutter summonses. 2.) There are particular addresses that Sanitation Agents hit repeatedly, most miraculously nearby the Sanitation District 1 office at 7 N. Moore Street, and yet somehow they miss the garbage dump that is the Canal Street Post Office. Top Addresses for 2012-2016 Dirty Sidewalk and Gutter Summonses 42 -- 88 READE STREET 35 -- 72 FRANKLIN STREET 31 -- 43 LISPENARD STREET 31 -- 4-6 WHITE STREET 29 -- 10 WHITE STREET 26 -- 102 FRANKLIN STREET 25 -- 363 GREENWICH STREET 24 -- 46 WALKER STREET 23 -- 18 HARRISON STREET 22 -- 153 FRANKLIN STREET 21 -- 89 READE STREET 20 -- 149 FRANKLIN STREET 19 -- 77 WHITE STREET 18 -- 143 DUANE STREET 18 -- 47 WALKER STREET 17 -- 71 LEONARD STREET 17 -- 53 LISPENARD STREET 16 -- 142 DUANE STREET 16 -- 155 FRANKLIN STREET 16 -- 77 FRANKLIN STREET — James on Nosy Neighbor: Why Is There Always Trash Outside the Post Office?

CB1 is a bullshittery with respect to championing residents' concerns. They're reactive (at best) instead of being proactive. Boss Tweed would be proud! — Jim Smithers on Seen & Heard: New Pasta Bar

Here's a blog post by the author of the WSJ piece quoted above. He is a location scout from NYC who moved to LA: http://www.scoutingny.com/the-death-of-theatre-alley-new-york-youve-changed/ "Then, a day before our shoot, Franklin Place alley found out we were planning to film there. "And told us it would cost $25,000 a day. "As it turns out, Franklin Place is privately owned. Each building abutting the alley owns about eight feet of it, and they’re very used to getting pay offs from big film companies like the ones I tend to now work for. I tried to explain that our budget was only $5,000, and we had no money, and could they please make an exception for student filmmakers? "Nope." — James on Seen & Heard: New Pasta Bar

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/07/nyregion/creepy-space-with-rats-just-10000-day-new-york-s-rare-alleyways-become-hot-spots.html It took Matthew Geller, an artist, three years of applications and interviews to set up his installation, ''Foggy Day,'' in Cortlandt Alley. His first choice had been Franklin Place, but the businesses that own the alley expected too much from him. ''There was a saga involved with getting the space,'' he said. ''They told me, 'We get $10,000 a day from big movies.' I didn't have that to give them, so I couldn't get it.'' — James on Seen & Heard: New Pasta Bar

Presumably the adjoining property owners. http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/12/28/new-york-unlikeliest-movie-star-the-alley/ In Hollywood’s version of New York City, the giant metropolis is teeming with secretive, cinematic alleyways — the ultimate urban character actor, always on-call to lend a film a sense of lived-in grit. Take “The Nanny Diaries”: the 2007 film uses an alley as the sort of backdrop that leaves no doubt the story is set in New York. In “The Sorcerer”s Apprentice,” a deserted alley brings the hero to a hidden magic shop, and the titular character in “The Talented Mr. Ripley” lives in a ramshackle apartment down a similarly photogenic byway. Yet the actual city is short on shortcuts. In fact, each of the above scenes was filmed at a single location — Franklin Place in Tribeca — that is now being remade by a real-estate developer. [...] Robert Moezinia, a property owner on Franklin Place for 15 years, can rattle off a list of shoots in his alley. “‘Men in Black,’ ‘Law and Order,’ Merrill Lynch commercials, European advertising for vodkas and soft drinks,” he said. “I had a very good situation.” Hollywood’s favorite image of the dangerous New York alley is not completely fictitious: Moezinia can recall dead bodies found dumped in Franklin Place over the years. What leaves him disappointed, however, are the small cameos his alley plays in the finished film. “They shoot for hours,” Moezinia complained, “yet it would only be five seconds in the movie.” In the case of privately owned alleys like Franklin Place, the property is often divided up among several owners with whom a production company will make individual deals. The total cost for securing one of these alleys can range from $5,000 to $10,000 per day, and beyond. Producers who forgo paying for access can find their productions shut down by the police. — James on Seen & Heard: New Pasta Bar

32 6th Ave aka KTU building generates wind tunnel. You can notice there is a always winds even other Streets do not have any winds. Lesbenard Street and Walker Street are also under this wind tunnel generated by 32 6th Ave. Back in old days architecture was not done correctly to address this issue — Former worker at Canal po station on Nosy Neighbor: Why Is There Always Trash Outside the Post Office?

If it's a private street, who owns it? By the way, the city has never plowed ... but I think it's because of the cars always parked there. If it snows tomorrow, it will be interesting to see what 5 Franklin Place does about snow removal. — Sara Gilbert on Seen & Heard: New Pasta Bar

This is simply amazing. Thank you for doing this! — Lisa on Adventures in Bag Snagging