Maybe they should replace it with a good restaurant (edible food, well-conceived concept, etc..). — Chyara on Kutsher’s Has Gone “on Vacation”

It makes my day when I see them. The cat always looks so happy! Gotta love someone who loves their pet! — CB on Valentine No. 38

I seem to recall a lengthy vacation last summer too. I choose to be optimistic. — Andrea on Kutsher’s Has Gone “on Vacation”

i walked by 60 vestry in the early evening yesterday and i saw guys applying a new coat of black paint to the buidling's windows. i don't think you paint windows of a building that you are going to knock down, so maybe it will survive. — sm on Might This Building Be Spared?

This is my comment on the Slate feature article. I don't know how many other tenants are here who have lived here from 1974, from before IPN became Mitchell-Lama. Congratulations Slate. Slate is the only media I have seen that stated the history of the building accurately. Even the New York Times has reported recently that the buildings were built as Mitchell-Lama; they were not. They were built as is stated correctly here in this article as luxury rentals. In the early 1970s, Tribeca was a warehouse district, a deserted residential community, so devoid of services and residents, the luxury towers did not rent. Other than a few artists, the neighborhood had only a handful of residents. The luxury towers had a tiny handful of tenants. The high-rise towers stood empty, with in some cases no tenants or only one tenant on each floor. The then landlord solved the problem by applying to the Mitchell-Lama program. The few original tenants were given the option of moving at the landlord's expense, or remaining in their apartment, or moving into any other apartment in the development and becoming absorbed into the Mitchell-Lama program. In September, 1974 when I moved into IPN and lived on my floor with one other tenant for more than a year, the New York Post photographed me standing outside the building amid the construction debris. The article's caption said, "Pioneer." So thanks Slate for being the only media so far to report the accurate history of the building. Let's see if in future the New York Times corrects its incorrect report. The social history of housing in the city counts, especially in a changing neighborhood like Tribeca. — Pearl Duncan, author on The Originals of Independence Plaza North

They walk blindly into the street, often while looking at their phones or in the opposite direction of the oncoming traffic, completely oblivious to the fact that there are cars and trucks doing 40 mph inches away from them. — Brett on In the News: “J&R Express” Inside Century 21

I am curious about what pedestrians do to make them such a problem? — Huck's Mom on In the News: “J&R Express” Inside Century 21

Chyara gets the credit on this one! — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: Camera Obscura on Chambers

You can always count on TC to track down an answer! Thanks Erik. — Andrea on Seen & Heard: Camera Obscura on Chambers

I can't express how much I loved this piece, the story is great but the photographs really bring these individual stories alive - Thank you to the photographer Susan Jones for pursuing these types of projects that tell real stories about real New Yorkers- LOVE IT! — Caterina on The Originals of Independence Plaza North

The ZARA store IS massive. It's 30,000 sf and will encompass not just what you see in the photo (which fronts Broadway and Ann Streets, but will also wrap around to have additional frontage on Fulton Street where an old Duane Reade Store used to be. It is also multi-level. Opening date is expected in early 2015. The original lobby entrance to 222 Broadway has been rerouted to open onto Fulton Street instead with Zara taking up the vacated space. — Luis Vazquez on Seen & Heard: Camera Obscura on Chambers

These people should be honored and cherished rather than feel fearful about their future due to our insane philosophy that housing is not a necessity but a luxury. Without the pioneers of Independence plaza, Southbridge and Gateway Plaza, there would not be a residential community thriving south of Canal Street. — betty on The Originals of Independence Plaza North

Ope, never mind just saw the one you did in March! — Josh on Might This Building Be Spared?

It would be great if you could do a post that covered all the new residential buildings/conversions in Tribeca. There seems to be so much construction and it'd be cool to see them all in one post. It could be like a biennial "Meet Your Neighbors" post! Loved the last one :) — Josh on Might This Building Be Spared?

As in this, from Wikipedia?: "A ground station, earth station, or earth terminal is a terrestrial terminal station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft, or reception of radio waves from an astronomical radio source. Ground stations are located either on the surface of the Earth or in its atmosphere.[1] Earth stations communicate with spacecraft by transmitting and receiving radio waves in the super high frequency or extremely high frequency bands (e.g., microwaves). When a ground station successfully transmits radio waves to a spacecraft (or vice versa), it establishes a telecommunications link. A principal telecommunications device of the ground station is the parabolic antenna." — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: A Reader’s Report on Denny’s

That is an earth station it's been on that roof for many years — John criscitiello on Seen & Heard: A Reader’s Report on Denny’s

http://I'vecollectedovertheyears.I'mastudentofmanhattan. — Ken Sacharin on Might This Building Be Spared?

This block was part of Leonard lispenard s farm — Ken Sacharin on Might This Building Be Spared?

Thanks, Ken. Where did you find all historic info? — KP on Might This Building Be Spared?

The sign is a NYC public art project by the artist Ryan McGinness. They were put up sometime around 1 month ago, and people have subsequently stolen many (most?) of them. — Chyara on Seen & Heard: Añejo Opens on Saturday

Cyclists going the wrong way on one-way streets is way too common and so dangerous. How can two weeks of police vigilance possibly change these habits? — SW on In the News: “J&R Express” Inside Century 21

268 West Street In 1887, the sidewalk in front of this address was the location of one of New York City's biggest-ever telephone poles. What street lamp-poles dream of becoming when they grow up. 90-foot telephone poles were bisected with 30 double crossarms and strung with 300 separate wires. In 1888, so many of the city's telephone wires came down in the great March blizzard that New York City required wires to be buried from then on. 270 West Street After assassination, Lincoln's body was brought to New York City. The ferry that brought the funeral rail car from Jersey City to downtown New York landed here. An enormous procession viewed by thousands wound its way from the ferry landing at Desbrosses Street (at West Street) to City Hall. When Lincoln's body was removed from New York City, a procession moved from City Hall to a train depot at 30th Street and Tenth Avenue. There, Lincoln's body was loaded onto a train to continue his journey home to Illinois. 31 Desbrosses Street One of 31 Desbrosses Street's tenants was the Pertussin cough syrup company. "Coughers, why be an outcast! Here's relief! Do friends shun you? Fail to invite you to social gatherings? Are you glared at in public places because of your frequent coughing, so annoying to others?" (1939 ad) — Ken Sacharin on Might This Building Be Spared?

Miraculous OR mundane mirror ? Odds are something hideous this way comes, again & again. Another BLOCK SIZED nail in the Coffin that was the place called New York City..... — Thomas Kordich on Might This Building Be Spared?

Well I had better behave myself now!! I am an avid CitiBike rider and "usually" go the right way but sometimes it is just so much more convenient to go the wrong way...especially early in the morning. I ride, walk and drive in the city and HANDS DOWN the biggest problem are the pedestrians. By far. The taxis may not like cyclists but they have grown accustom to us. The pedestrians are the worst! The city is so safe now that these young people still think they are in NC...or where ever they come from. The police should start ticketing them as well ...got to remember to start carrying ID with me....just a "note to oneself." — Lisa on In the News: “J&R Express” Inside Century 21

Hilarious choker references and mock photos. Must have been like a Where's Waldo game being played there. The beer hall looks like something out of a blend of Hugo and the Gangs of New York. Is Scorsese an investor here or are the developers just huge fans? — erik on Pier A Harbor House: The Lay of the Land