Nope. I've never anything about it directly from a PR firm, only from other news sources, so I suspect we'll read about it on Eater or the NYT when it's close to ready. (Generally, if I know about any opening dates, you can be assured that I'll have mentioned them.) — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: Proposals for the South End Avenue Arcades

Any idea about the restaurant in the Tommie? Is that opening soon also? — J on Seen & Heard: Proposals for the South End Avenue Arcades

Wowzers, and I thought my Sundays were mucho-exciting! Looks like I am going to have to up my game. — Jim Smithers on In the News: Sphere Sculpture Will Be Moved to Liberty Park

Take your slow time. So glad I had my drapes drawn - could have been an unfortunate Arne Svenson redux. — Jim Smithers on Where in Tribeca…?

Hey Mike....... This is incredible!!!!!!! Lots of good luck to you! Hopefully I will get to NY so I can see it in person! Bobbie — Bobbie Mendelsohn on New Kid on the Block: City Vineyard

Correct! Stars to follow.... — Erik Torkells on Where in Tribeca…?

Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but how is a subway elevator on the sidewalk at 15 Broad Street a concession from the developer of 45 Broad Street (more than a block away)????? Has anyone looked into the developers' donations to BdB? — LG on In the News: Apple Store Confirmed

James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (note: no apostrophe) begins midstream: riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. This most novel kind of novel ends all those hundreds of pages later with another fragment that completes the beginning: A way a lone a last a loved a long the — Jane on In the News: Eataly Details

250 West Street. You're welcome. — Jim Smithers on Where in Tribeca…?

Nope. — Erik Torkells on Whole Foods Confirms FiDi Store

This seems awfully close to the Whole Foods under 101 Warren.... Especially when you look at how much farther apart the existing locations are from each other. Any rumors that the opening of the 1 Wall location will lead to the demise of the 101 Warren location? — Chase C. on Whole Foods Confirms FiDi Store

. . . and today there were five . . . . . . but they're getting bigger and not clinging to mom so much so maybe there was one in the reeds . . . — Hudson River on Seen & Heard: The Lifting of the Street Fair Ban

How wonderful! Thank you for the great info. — anne on Seen & Heard: 60 White Interior

Anyone know what kind of turtle? Likely doesn't belong there - maybe a red-eared slider that got too big and someone abandoned? Should probably be removed - might be accepted by the Wild Bird Fund on upper west side - they a have turtle tank there, if anyone willing to take the time and trouble. The ducks have been nesting there for years now - shame to lose them. — anne on Seen & Heard: The Lifting of the Street Fair Ban

6 feet wide is ridiculous but so is the blustery opposition. They are entitled to a ramp 44 inches wide by City law, irrespective of the ADA. "The Department [of Transportation] may grant a revocable consent for a ramp which extends more than 44 inches from the building line for buildings erected prior to December 6, 1969, including any additional steps attached or ancillary to the ramp structure made necessary by the creation of the ramp. (Section 27-308 of the Administrative Code [aka the 1968 NYC Building Code] permits ramps to extend up to 44 inches from the building line for such buildings.) (Buildings erected after December 6, 1969 must contain ramps within the property line.)" http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/revconsent.pdf — James on In the News: Apple Store Confirmed

Shigure has a great happy hour menu with a draft special. Their Japanese style fried chicken is a favorite. — EHS on 32 Happy Hour Deals in Greater Tribeca

Because I create this list by emailing my list of local restaurants, and I don't have a contact at American Cut. Feel free to send over the info and I'll add it. — Erik Torkells on 32 Happy Hour Deals in Greater Tribeca

How do you not have American Cut on here?? It has the BEST happy hour! — KK on 32 Happy Hour Deals in Greater Tribeca

Brookfield owns the entire complex, renaming it mainly as a way to attract office tenants who aren't financial (but instead media, tech, etc.). — Erik Torkells on In the News: Ferry Crash

I thought the whole complex was still called "The World Financial Center" and that it was just the mall that was "Brookfield Place." The Brookfield buy all the buildings and the land? FWIW, the plaque on the stairs of the Winter Garden says "World Financial Center". And also FWIW, that's what I call the complex. — KP on In the News: Ferry Crash

It's important to add context to the WTC story. The grand total square footage of the 4 stores that have pulled out are 6,000 out of a total of 365,000 sf of space; less than 2%. It is otherwise 100% leased. — Luis Vazquez (FiDi Fan Page) on In the News: Swiss Institute’s Temporary Gallery

"Is it fair to assume that so many renovated buildings are painted cream because that sells for a higher price?" No. These paint colors require the approval of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. LPC typically requires an analysis of paint chips from the façade to determine the history of the layers of paint colors. These cream colors do resemble stone and cast-iron's popularity in part came from being a strong and easy- to-assemble substitute material for stone. The paint colors were originally selected to mimic stone. From a 2000 NY Times article about the restoration of the Cary Building (http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/16/realestate/streetscapes-1857-cast-iron-cary-building-105-chambers-street-facades-meant-be.html): ''The detail of this building is just astounding, how far they went to imitate stone,'' said Judith Saltzman, a principal of Li/Saltzman. She said her firm is examining options for replacing missing elements in cast iron, cast aluminum and fiberglass for an estimated cost of about $500,000. To determine the original paint color, a microscopic paint analysis was undertaken by the New Jersey firm Historic Preservation and Illumination. Cynthia Hinson, head of the company, said that the original color was a uniform yellowy white, with sand thrown or blown on the the wet paint to imitate the granular surface of stone. The techniques of paint analysis have advanced significantly in the last 15 years and it is now common even in routine preservation projects. Raymond Pepi, president of Building Conservation Associates in Manhattan, said that the earliest methods were often used to analyze interior paint finishes in residential buildings and were derived from the work of art restorers, who often had to strip away successive layers of paint. But since he began work in the 1970's, Mr. Pepi said that the discipline had advanced on its own, especially with color matching by colorimeter, instead of eyeball judgment, and staining and fluorescent microscopy, which can reveal layers invisible to the eye. — James on Seen & Heard: 60 White Interior

Thanks. Very nice trip down memory lane. But one couldn't see the strange zigzag table placement -- at least, that is how I remember it. — betty on In the News: Eataly Details

Did you notice also in today's Times: "In the five years since he closed Tabla, the chef Floyd Cardoz has cooked at North End Grill and opened Bombay Canteen in Mumbai, India." I'm sure we'd all like to forget White Street ever happened. — JJB on In the News: Eataly Details

They sure don't build them like they used to. The juxtaposition of the design highlights this and the execution flaws. — McGee on New Building Report Card: The Sterling Mason