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@Rosalie: Nope... — Erik Torkells on Where in Tribeca…? Special Apocalyptic Edition!
Are 4 & 5 on Desbrosses between Hudson & Greenwich? — Rosalie on Where in Tribeca…? Special Apocalyptic Edition!
@Gardiner Comfort: ......Interesting insights @Jen: .....History Book — valsussana on Another Ride Through the Past
Not only is Howard adorable, he seems to be well behaved as well... sitting there like a pug pin up.. — Sheila on Where in Tribeca…? Special Apocalyptic Edition!
I haven't a clue, but the non-apocalypse becomes Howard. He sure looks cute! — KP on Where in Tribeca…? Special Apocalyptic Edition!
Just to be clear: Robert was right about 1, 2, 3, and 6. And Amy was right about 7. And I said that 4 and 5 were the same street. A reader emailed his own photo of 4 (without Howard), so I guess we could call this over, but he didn't do it publicly.... — Erik Torkells on Where in Tribeca…? Special Apocalyptic Edition!
Cannot wait to see the Robin Brouillette store. Sounds amazing and such a beautiful space!! — SJ on Seen & Heard: Robin Brouillette Update
I think it might be owned by the metal band "overkill" it says that on the side of the limo....i've always wondered as well. I love it! — hadley on Photo Safari!
@Liz: Yep. — Erik Torkells on Another Ride Through the Past
@Randy: Good question. I tried looking online a while back, but I didn't find anything. Someone must know.... — Erik Torkells on Photo Safari!
Anyone know the story of the 'batmobile' above. I see it all the time parked at broadway and Franklin? — Randy on Photo Safari!
Erik: Did you shoot these? — Liz on Another Ride Through the Past
Great pics and comments. thanks for posting. — Liz on Photo Safari!
Why again should people be vocal and demand the best operator - Asphalt Green? Their organization uptown is poorly run and a joke. None of this is surprising. My kids used to go to sports classes at the Upper East Side location but literally every season (or sometimes during the season), their coach would be fired or quit. Where there's smoke, there's fire. — AG is at fault on Seen & Heard: How to Take Action on Asphalt Green
I bet that blogger Eric can't stand loud noise in the morning and is a crank without coffee. Poorly dressed people make him irritated. He has a short attention span perhaps Just trying to create a psychological profile to explain the "snarkiness". — Eeri on Photo Safari!
@Betty: We actually joke about the Pug Union and how he'll threaten to report us when he thinks he's not being treated acceptably.... But fear not. He's totally spoiled. — Erik Torkells on Where in Tribeca…? Special Apocalyptic Edition!
Does Howard get Union rates? — betty on Where in Tribeca…? Special Apocalyptic Edition!
@Robert: I was impressed! You were close in that two of the ones you got wrong (#4 and #5) are indeed on the same street. And yes, #7 is Vestry. — Erik Torkells on Where in Tribeca…? Special Apocalyptic Edition!
Only 4...I must be slipping :). Good thing I didn't need a shelter today! — Robert Ripps on Where in Tribeca…? Special Apocalyptic Edition!
#7 is 47 Vestry Street — Amy on Where in Tribeca…? Special Apocalyptic Edition!
@Robert: You got four of them right.... — Erik Torkells on Where in Tribeca…? Special Apocalyptic Edition!
Okay, here goes...: #1- Duane between Hudson & West Broadway. #2- Hudson between Leonard and Worth. #3- Broadway between White and Walker. #4- Walker between Broadway & Lafayette. #5- Ditto. #6- Thomas between West Broadway & Broadway. #7- Laight between Greenwich & Hudson. — Robert Ripps on Where in Tribeca…? Special Apocalyptic Edition!
Sorry to see Lole leave but very glad Vestry Wines has found a new home until they can get back into their old space. — Kellee on LolĂ« Is Leaving Tribeca
Wasn't 403 Greenwich Street (formerly a stationery store) a very, very old building? I always thought it would be a good space for a restaurant. Isn't the Landmarks Commission supposed to protect very old buildings? Now that it has quietly been torn down to make way for yet another cliche glass box full of millionaires, I'm wondering where was the Landmarks Commission when they were supposed to be caring for landmarks? — John David on In the News: Hudson River Park Squabble
Many of the buildings down there were built well before the 20th century. (The building I grew up in was from around 1885). And before that it went through the same generational changes of the entire lower island area since the Dutch days. Its most notable (recent) history is that of a produce area for import, sale, and storage (hence Washington Market, which was a massive food market in the current Independence Plaza and BMCC area. It then moved to Hunt's Point, in The Bronx.) As for the "slum" comment, that's pretty unfair. It was certainly industrial and didn't house too many people in the middle of the 20th century, though there was a Middle Eastern section, some of which moved to Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn when the Twin Towers were built. Most of the people who lived amongst the warehouses in the 70's and 80's-many of them the artists who made the area chic for people with money- thought of the area as a vibrant community and a great place to raise children, if not a little rough-around-the-edges and without certain amenities like grocery stores and laundromats. As a child of 1980's Tribeca I look back on my childhood as absolutely unique, exciting, and wonderful. I think of the people who live in my parents' co-op now as rude and entitled. They are there because of the pioneering that people like my parents did and they are living in a neighborhood that they have made bland and unwelcoming. A longer conversation could be had about the hypocrisy of "pioneering" an industrial area, and I don't mean to come off as defensive, but many of us who grew up in places like Tribeca simply think of the place as home and not a formerly "up-and-coming "neighborhood. The glory days of Tribeca, Soho, and most of Downtown Manhattan are in the past and that past did not include slum life. — Gardiner Comfort on Another Ride Through the Past








