The BPCA meeting is notable only as a band aid approach to the bad press they have had and community frustration. It is a public relations move. They have no requirement to listen or abide by any local feedback. They have 3 board members whose terms have expired and 1 totally vacant seat and yet residents cannot get more local stakeholders inside the Ivory tower. BPCA has total control and makes changes as the board chairs wants to leave his mark...irrespective of community or elected official requests... — TMK on Seen & Heard: Laura Bush Dropped By

I love that corner window. I think it is an example of why we need to protect the neighborhood without creating a 19th Century museum. Modernity, per se, is not the culprit. Vulgarity and greed is. — Heide Fasnacht on Seen & Heard: Laura Bush Dropped By

The corner window makes the building look to me like it is wearing a monocle. — James on Seen & Heard: Laura Bush Dropped By

i'm sorry but 173 west broadway is a poster child for why we need a bigger landmark district. the corner window is an atrocity. — j on Seen & Heard: Laura Bush Dropped By

Agree with this but I think it was the fryer venting onto the street — Erik Torkells on Sun Café Appears to Be Closing

For years, it has had the same horrible, fishy stink. I would try not to breathe whenever I had to walk by it. — MA on Sun Café Appears to Be Closing

I'm worried about even the less expensive restaurants. I noticed some hefty price hikes over the last year+ at Odeon. Makes me wonder what has happened to their rent... — Yokel on Sun Café Appears to Be Closing

I like 56 Leonard though it does not measure up to the initial renderings. The love the top, but the lower floors are disappointing, hence an overall judgment of "like". Maybe I will feel differently when it is completed. We shall see. — Luis Vazquez (FiDi Fan Page) on Seen & Heard: The Battery Bike Path Is Also Open

well, i don't speak for all of tribeca but sun cafe was a bargain. you could get a decent pork udon on mcdonald's budget. the health department gave them a "b" and i never had any problems with their hygene. — j on Sun Café Appears to Be Closing

This place was completely disgusting and unhygenic. Quite bold of you to insulate the closing was related to greedy landlords. Tribecans won't eat this garbage. Hence, iits demise. — Tom Davies on Sun Café Appears to Be Closing

Erik, it would be helpful if you included the addresses. It saves having to go to each website. — Huck's Mom on Shop-Local Gift Guide (Part 1)

Lets be honest here Winston is just using the class pass as a scape goat when in fact there was an Equinox gym around the corner, Barrys boot camp at the opposite end, New York Sports Club just two blocks away and two soul cycle gyms in the same neighborhood. I think the better realistic reason for failure was the competition devouring Drill fitness's over priced classes, tiny bathrooms and rude overworked management. — Teddy H. on Drill Fitness is Closing

just a fan — architect on Seen & Heard: The Battery Bike Path Is Also Open

just a fan of great architecture — architect on Seen & Heard: The Battery Bike Path Is Also Open

Splitting the M20 bus route (again) is a terrible idea. We trade the probability of buses arriving late (when do they keep to the schedule anyway?) for the probability of getting half (if we are lucky) of the buses currently driving the route. Since the M10 was split into the M20 and M10, we have had wait for over twenty minutes when the buses run to schedule. Does this mean one and a half buses every hour? And, of course, all downtown "improvements" are for the workers not the residents. Don't expect to see too many buses at night or on the weekends. This a cut the schedule and save money project while screwing downtowners once again bad idea. — betty on In the News: The Newsstand Reinvented

I decided to try the Museum of Feelings this morning, so you don't have to, but if you do, go at opening time to avoid lines. I got there at 11:18 and waited 7 minutes, then spent 15 minutes inside, part of it waiting to go into the next room, but I was just not getting it so you can spend more time. There are staff people explaining each room to "you guys" and telling "you guys" to take pictures and put them on social media. They make it sound like a big deal, but it's basically just ordinary lights and grocery-store air freshener. Oh, but it's "curated," so that makes it special. — Hudson River on Seen & Heard: Fire on Worth Street

That's great that those lights are raising money for a good cause, but they are still a huge disappointment, IMO. The Christmas lights in the Wintergarden before Brookfield took it over were spectactular. — KP on In the News: The Newsstand Reinvented

Take a look at The New Stand in Brookfield. Stopped in yesterday, and found out it is another outpost of this: http://www.wired.com/2015/11/the-new-stand-is-an-underground-bodega-for-the-modern-commuter/ — Matt on Seen & Heard: Another Gallery Is Moving In

You're always better off bringing up these concerns with the business itself -- I wouldn't assume any business reads this site. — Erik Torkells on A Proposed Newsstand Outside P.S. 234

Right in front of P.S. 234? And it’ll sell cigarettes? LOL. And block the views of oncoming traffic. That is a difficult corner for parents and students (PS 234 and BMCC) and to add another visual obstruction (Fruit stand already exist) does not seem wise. — George on A Proposed Newsstand Outside P.S. 234

If Sarabeth's is going to continue to operate their outside sidewalk cafe, I hope they plan clean it up some. All summer it was smelly and dirty with a pigeon problem. Not nice to sit there. — Elizabeth on A Proposed Newsstand Outside P.S. 234

Wow, what a review...did you design it? — Adam on Seen & Heard: The Battery Bike Path Is Also Open

The fire on Worth Street was in a dumpster filled with electronics waste - old computer monitors, etc. Hence all that acrid smoke. I was walking past and called it in to 911. A few minutes later some cops arrived. By then I was heading into Chinatown for dumplings, but I heard sirens, so I'm assuming the FDNY got there soon after. — Will on Seen & Heard: Fire on Worth Street

Indeed. I think some "entertaining" flash mobs might be in order. — Liz on In the News: Tour Bus Overload

The Museum of Feelings. Sponsored by Glade. If it starts to rain and there is no line, it might be an amusing place to shelter. Nothing bad/harmful/distasteful (although some may feel a little dizzy in one of the spaces). Basically,it is a silly waste of time hoping to get people to think scent via pseudoscience. (Buy a scented candle for Christmas?) If there is something else to do, almost anything would be more interesting. In fact, watching them install the skating rink is definitely more interesting. — betty on Seen & Heard: Fire on Worth Street