Thanks for the tip! — DeeDee on Open Letter: What Happened to Our Whole Foods Store?

For things like deli meats/cheeses Best Market is significantly cheaper than Whole Foods. I have never been to Gourmet Garage or used Fresh Direct. — nyrangers615 on Supermarket Price Check!

Wow.. very interesting.. — juliejewel on Supermarket Price Check!

While Calatrava's monument to marble adds to the overload of stark, extreme neat, clean and anti-septic architecture of the rebuilt Ground Zero, like some sort of subconscious effort to obliterate all memory of destruction, pain, shock, heroism and sacrifice of 9/11, an authentic piece of that memory sits forgotten in an abandoned corner of Battery Park. The battered and bruised Koenig Sphere, the only remaining intact artifact of the WTC. It has been deemed too offensive, too ugly, to real to be returned to the WTC and the billion dollar, "National September 11 Memorial." It would infringe upon "healing" - and our happy selfies. To help return the Sphere, please Facdbook, Save the Sphere — Michael Burke on In the News: First Reviews of the World Trade Center Oculus

It must have slipped through the crack. — Fred on In the News: First Reviews of the World Trade Center Oculus

Riiiiiiight. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-nut-milk.htm — Jim Smithers on New Kid on the Block: Wicked Juice and Kitchen

CAN NOT WAIT!!! True Foods is the best!! — Desiree Harris on True Food Kitchen Is Opening at Brookfield Place

Milk is a pale liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. Can we all please stop calling nut juice "milk"? It is juice; almond juice, soy juice, whatever juice, not milk. — fidus on New Kid on the Block: Wicked Juice and Kitchen

Lol... — Jim on In the News: First Reviews of the World Trade Center Oculus

Love it! — Jim on In the News: First Reviews of the World Trade Center Oculus

I'm bummed that the reporter didn't get to the bottom of the ass donuts! It wouldn't have been too cheeky to ask. — Andrea on In the News: First Reviews of the World Trade Center Oculus

Just heard from the owner that they are indeed organic (and I'll update the text accordingly). — Erik Torkells on New Kid on the Block: Wicked Juice and Kitchen

If they were organic, they would be $14-16 a bottle. — Jeff Martins on New Kid on the Block: Wicked Juice and Kitchen

Are these juices organic? I don't see any info on it in the pictures. — Jen on New Kid on the Block: Wicked Juice and Kitchen

J and R screwed their venders out of millions of dollars including my company when they closed I did freelance window displays for them for over 25 years including walking across the Brooklyn bridge after 9/11 to get them back in business only to be screwed out of my outstanding invoices... Not fair... The rich get richer and the little guy gets screwed... Thanks — G on Three More Buildings Are Toast

I love these articles. One of these years I would love to go on the loft tour where locals open their homes to the public in order to raise money for Friends of Duane Park and Friends of Bogardus Garden. — TribecaMom on Loft Peeping: Naomi Watts & Liev Schreiber

146 Chambers Street — James on Where in Tribeca…?

Well said indeed! Our energy would be better spent on actual real people with real problems and real interests ... and real NY apartments. Disgusted to read that celeb reference Hurricane Sandy. Doesn't she know ppl lost their homes, their ONLY homes. Author should've included that extra time also had to do with their inability to pay the first guy on the project who had to sue them to get his money after doing work. Or maybe just chosen someone more appropriate to highlight. This is NOT the neighborhood into which I moved. Very disheartening. — Rena M on Loft Peeping: Naomi Watts & Liev Schreiber

The "pending" refers to zoning approval of the proposed use. No zoning diagrams have apparently been scanned in yet. For a hotel in an M district, if the height, footage and other requirements comply, this should be an "as of right" project with no variances required. No such applications for a variance are indicated on the filing. — James on A New Nine-Story Hotel

As an original member of the gym it would be sad to see them loose their lease. There are no other reasonable alternatives other than these new fancy private clubs, that don't offer the range of classes. Of course, clients can be asked not to drop their weights on the floor. That should be the job of the many trainers who are standing around. These trainers should be more involved with all the members and not just watching their own clients. If they loose the lease, what kind of business can afford that large a space? Do we really need more law firms and banks? The real problem is the greedy landlords that are killing retail and restaurants. Look at all the vacant spaces coming to market. (PS: Equi-porn is in the eyes of the beholder) — Lewis Gross on Will Equinox Get Muscled Out of 50 Murray?

They have Tonic water in larger bottles by vintage at .89 — T on Open Letter: What Happened to Our Whole Foods Store?

Was in there today and saw that they had bottles tonic water by vintage. Hope this helps those looking for it. Its in the soda aisle. — T on Open Letter: What Happened to Our Whole Foods Store?

Lots of great stuff here: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/walking-tour-walt-whitmans-soho-historic-district-new-york-city Including: "308 Broadway: Fowler & Well’s Phrenological Cabinet "Whitman’s relationship with the phrenologists started when he was given his first phrenological analysis. It revealed a way to self-knowledge that exhilarated him, and it also led to friendship with his analyst, Lorenzo Fowler. Eventually Fowler & Wells offered to act as agent for the first edition of Leaves of Grass. The green cloth-covered book with its gold-stamped title twined with sprouting gold leaves went on display in the New York Cabinet shortly after July 4, 1855, and later in the Philadelphia and Boston Cabinets. "The New York Cabinet was a Broadway Health Palace visited by hundreds of persons each day from all over the country, but not those on the lookout for a book of poems. Fowler & Wells published books catering to the mid-19th century reformist movements in health and medicine. Leaves of Grass took its place among treatises on hydropathy, mesmerism, hygiene, women’s rights, vegetarian and “Grahamite” (whole wheat flour) cookbooks; anti-tobacco and temperance tracts; “how-to-books," including how to succeed in business and instruction in shorthand; paraphernalia for preserving fruit, etc. Fowler & Wells published anonymously the 1856 (second) edition of Leaves of Grass, which went on display in the New York Cabinet and branches. But in 1857, Whitman was complaining: "Fowler & Wells are bad persons for me. They retard my book very much.—It is worse than ever.—I wish now to bring out a third edition—I have now a hundred poems ready (the last edition had thirty-two )—and shall endeavor to make an arrangement with some publisher here to take the plates from F. & W. and make the additions needed, and so bring out the third edition.—F & W. are very willing to give up the plates—they want the thing off their hands." FYI - “Grahamite” (whole wheat flour) cookbooks are related to the Rev. Graham who invented the Graham cracker, and not as a treat for children ... — James on In the News: Tom Colicchio’s Restaurant Has a Name

Fowler & Wells's greatest claim to fame: they were the original publishers of Whitman's Leaves of Grass: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_82.html Walt W. also came to the neighborhood to get his picture taken at the great Civil War photographer Mathew Brady's studio, 359 Broadway. BTW, TC: thanks for the clip of "Think Pink"--seen it a million times, but always makes me smile... — Ellen on In the News: Tom Colicchio’s Restaurant Has a Name

My take is that in order to avoid neighborhood trolls chirping the overused canard "first world problems"' endlessly to any and all comments, one must simply not comment at all. We've got some bitter people out there! — Janet on Open Letter: What Happened to Our Whole Foods Store?