Can't confirm this, but according to the project manager at 15 Leonard, the Kardashians are just renting the penthouse for fashion week? As a resident of the block I'm praying this is true. — ID on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

I guess I had known about that too, but it completely slipped my mind. Once again the world's imagination is fueled by the inevitable axial connection of sex and death. Or maybe Erik is right and it's mostly about an outsized ass. — David G. Imber on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

I thought they are famous for one thing only: a sex tape. — Marcus on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

Her apartment is beautifully done. I love her taste. However, I find her restaurant, Tiny's, very uncomfortable for dinner. The tables are too small for all of the plates and glasses. It's just too much of a juggle to clear some space. I wish that could be remedied. Otherwise, the food isn't bad. — Janet on Loft Peeping: Nadine & Matt Abramcyk

I remember the Lo Jan Coffee Shop. A "dirty spoon" if ever there was one, but what an Old New York atmosphere! Harvey Keitel was a regular. — Dixie on In the News: Squirrels Abandon Battery Park City

That may have initially made the Kardashian name, but I doubt that many of the millions of people who follow the family now have any knowledge of it. — Erik Torkells on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

15 Leonard is designed by terrific and longtime Tribeca architect Wayne Turett. So she has good taste in design! — Mjkane on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

People often say that they are not famous for anything, but they are famous for exactly one thing, that their father defended a multiple murderer. The Horatio Alger myth is one wherein the protagonist achieves success by hard work and ingenuity, isn't it? I won't blame the children for the father's judgment, but to be clear, their background isn't unremarkable. They are celebrities by virtue of the fact that their parent put his abundant effort and skill into freeing a killer of innocent people. — David G. Imber on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

A perfect illustration of how that inappropriate building towers over the neighborhood... — Robert Ripps on Seen & Heard: Bookstore Closed

A Kardashian (aka Jenner) living in Tribeca? Shit yeah! I wish they would all move here. Except Khloe. At least, until she gets her up and down weight under control! Am I right, nannies? Just in time for the fall weather and the anticipation of the first sighting of the black puffy jackets and vests!!! — Jim Smithers on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

Because our block isn't crapped up enough by the construction. — Tina on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

I think you mean these two rendering videos from 2014: -- https://tribecacitizen.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NS_Concourse_Upper-level.mov -- https://tribecacitizen.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Level-2.mov And here's one of Cortlandt Way: -- https://tribecacitizen.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Cortland.mov. They're from posts I ran of the floor plans: https://tribecacitizen.wpengine.com/2014/01/16/the-world-trade-center-retail-floor-plans-part-1/ and https://tribecacitizen.wpengine.com/2014/01/16/the-world-trade-center-retail-floor-plans-part-2/ — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: Opening Forecasts for the Beekman Restaurants

And there goes the neighborhood? — Michael Hoffman on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

Love the train idea. BTW does anyone out there have a link to that fly-thru VR thing that took you from the far end of the Fulton Center to Brookfield (which was still WFC at that time)? You had posted a link to it here a long time ago and we were all kind of amazed but I can't find it. I'm curious to compare how close it turned out. — Hudson River on Seen & Heard: Opening Forecasts for the Beekman Restaurants

One of the few things I do know about the Kardashians/Jenners is that they don't especially care what people think of them. There's something appealingly Horatio Alger-ish about their story: Dealt an unremarkable hand (decent looks, big ass, few privacy issues), they really made the most of it. I neglected to mention that the penthouse sold for $7.07 million—way down from the $18.5 million list price, but not exactly chump change. It's the American dream, circa 2016. — Erik Torkells on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

I really wish that trash family stay in CA. — Native New Yorker on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

I ate there in July when an out of town friend was staying in this hotel. I thought this restaurant was only for hotel guests, but it appears that it is indeed open to the public. The views are the best I have ever seen for a restaurant. The food however, left a lot to be desired. That said, I had just had a phenomenal dinner the night before just down the block at Schilling, so maybe it was the unfair comparison at work. I would still recommend this restaurant for the view alone. And I recommend Schilling at all levels. — Luis Vazquez (FiDi Fan Page) on In the News: High Fashion in the Seaport

Man the lifeboats! — AndyC on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

I hate that I know this, but you are getting Kylie and her sister Kendall (the Jenner sister on the September cover of Vogue) mixed up. Regardless, I wish they would all stay in California. — MME on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

She lives on the other side of this building on Franklin. — HH on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

those are two different jenners! (kylie and kendall) — unapologetic millennial on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

Doesn't Taylor Swift live next door? — George on Kylie Jenner Bought a Tribeca Penthouse

Thanks for the info on the other restrooms—the "concierge" on the Oculus floor didn't mention any of those.... As for the subways, wouldn't it be awesome if there was a scale model of the entire building/transit system, showing how it all interacts? Maybe for the holidays Westfield will set up a toy train along those lines, with subways, PATH trains, etc.... — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: Opening Forecasts for the Beekman Restaurants

I was also curious about the restrooms, since they've been saying for years that the restrooms for the memorial will be in the hub, instead of people trying to use restrooms in local stores. Besides the ones you mention, there is one at the Church/Liberty Street entrance, next to the upper level of Banana Republic, and in the passageway between the lower level of the Apple Store and John Varvatos, and on the level just above that one. The ones in Eataly are in at long food-free connecting corridor with the matching games and info in he graphics. Re the subway entrances: do you realize that when you walk down those stairs at the western end of the oculus to the PATH train, you are walking *under* the #1 train?! (The way the levels work in that space still astounds me.) It goes thru that box-like thing, where your last picture was taken. The one before that was taken on the upper level of the hallway to 4WTC. — Hudson River on Seen & Heard: Opening Forecasts for the Beekman Restaurants

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/realestate/a-tribeca-duplex-for-22-2-million.html — James on New Building Report Card: The Sterling Mason