What was the name of the restaurant, bar, music venue on Chambers Street. It was amazing. Bar in front, restaurant behind it and a dance floor and great live music. Saw Jane Olivor there. IT was such a great place. Thanks, Gina — gina on Memories of Old Tribeca Restaurants

Agreed. Total red flag. I also won't vote for anyone against congestion pricing, unless they can propose a better solution to the traffic, transit, noise and air pollution, and safety issues involved. — Marcus on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

Arrival into central London by private car dropped by 48% since congesting pricing was instituted. Meanwhile, actual visitors to the area increased, not decreased, over the same time period. Latest Data Show (Again!) That London’s Congestion Pricing is Working https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/02/06/latest-data-shows-again-that-londons-congestion-pricing-is-working — Marcus on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

Everybody, including Marte, is in agreement that dining "sheds" need to go. The question is whether street space should continue to be used for outdoor dining and, if so, under what regulations. Lee believes that it should not be used at all for outdoor dining, which is how things were under pre-covid sidewalk cafe policies. Placing that position alongside her position on congestion pricing, she is basically just a pro-car and pro-parking candidate—totally backwards in a place like Lower Manhattan. The program that DOT is working to implement will not allow sheds in the street. It will allow removable tables, chairs, and umbrellas during seasonal weather. See the link below. Given the popularity of outdoor dining (and issues posed by cars), this is the future a walkable, transit-dense neighborhood needs. https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pedestrians/openrestaurants.shtml — person on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

I’m not voting for anyone against congestion pricing. Chinatown is choked with traffic and somehow she sees this as a good thing? — Cd on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

if they are going to do this, they need to figure out what to do with all the compost. even under the current system most of it just gets burned off as methane/biogas. — josh on Drop-off composting bins have arrived

well, i live here and i agree with her on all of the above issues. we need to remove the dining sheds. they are unsafe and unhealthy. it was ok to help the restaurants survive the lockdowns but now we have moved on. congestion pricing is a just another government boondoggle just ask anyone who lives in london where it has been around for years and has not reduced congestion one bit. — josh on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

To say this is a loss for the neighborhood would be a gross understatement. First with Al, and then Jones, the tone they set for this gem of a true neighborhood pharmacy managed to survive so many transitions here, giving us all the continuity and connection we needed at those junctures. They ushered so many of us through the birth of our children and all of our families' growth here, instilling such a sense of community, and anchoring our small town within a big city. When my kids started walking to school on their own, I would always tell them if they ever got turned around, they could always go over to Kings and tell Al. All of the times they delivered scripts when we were all down for the count and couldn't get there - I could go on. We will also follow Jones and would too would love to see him start another pharmacy here at some point. A big thank you to both of them for all they've done for us. — Tricia Joyce on Kings Pharmacy, a Tribeca staple for 25 years, will close on June 30

Seriously another candidate against congestion pricing? — person on City Council Primary 2023: Ursila Jung

"NYC issues hundreds of thousands of placards every year" It's always a red flag when a candidate (with a graduate degree in public policy from Columbia!) doesn't do basic fact checking before they send in their Q+A responses. Per Councilmember Restler's 2022 op-ed in Streetsblog https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/06/02/opinion-why-we-must-eliminate-placards-and-heres-how-well-do-it , the City issues roughly 60,000 placards annually. I'm adamantly against placards, but as a voter I also value facts. Though should we be surprised? Anyone who has read Ursula Jung's website https://www.ursilajung.com/issues and tried to figure out whether Jung has any meaningful policy positions can realize that she's an unserious candidate. Notice, for instance, no mention of this (bad) congestion pricing stance, which contradicts her vague statements on transit and street safety. I may have disagreements with both Marte and Lee, but at least I have a good sense for where they stand. — downtownctzn on City Council Primary 2023: Ursila Jung

Out of touch. 1) BPC is not that far from the subway. All BPC residents are within a short walk of a few of 1,2,3,A,C,E,4,5,6,N,R,W, and PATH trains. 2) BPC residents welcome congestion pricing. With fewer private vehicles downtown bus service will be speedier and more reliable. Everyone that isn't addicted to free on street parking loves year round outdoor dining. — BPC resident on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

"Neighborhoods like Battery Park City also have limited access to subways" hahahaha "The cost will fall most heavily on those least able to pay, whether they live outside the zone and drive in for medical appointments, or are low-income residents within the zone, including senior citizens who have aged in place-whose children have moved to other boroughs and beyond and would be dissuaded from visiting." So tired of this disingenuous 'equity' canard. I live in a NORC; why should we subsidize relatives driving into the city from their rich suburbs in North Jersey, Westchester, and Long Island when they can just as easily visit their parents and grandparents who have aged in place by using public transit? The streets around my block are clogged with their luxury SUVs; this isn't an equity issue at all. If anyone has the means to pay and should be otherwise disincentivized from clogging our streets and driving in circles to park, it's these folks. — downtownctzn on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

Susan Lee is the worst choice you could make for Tribeca and for the rest of District 1. She's a Republican masquerading as a progressive Democrat and has repeatedly surrendered to and perpetuated the hysteria generated by conservative politicians and media around bail reform and crime. all because she's effectively a single-issue candidate (hate crimes against Asian NYers). — MW on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

Has this lady ever walked in this district? If her concern is congested sidewalks, residents' health, and lack of transit (seriously? In District 1?) but she is against CP and dining sheds, I would assume she would propose completely closing off streets to vehicular traffic in favor of bus lanes and widened sidewalks. There shouldn't be free parking anywhere in the district then. This neighborhood is so dense and packed with tourists and locals alike, that seeing huge amounts of space devoted to to like 10% of people who drive while everyone else has to scramble and fight for the remaining scraps of space is absolutely mind-blowing. She needs to fix this logical dissonance in her head before attempting to represent the neighborhood. — Maria on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

Those who stand to gain the most from congestion processing are the least wealthy. The current system of prioritizing cars disproportionately benefits car owners, who are on average better off. — Peter Nigrini on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

And as for areas with little subway access, the solution is to add better bus or streetcar access. — Marcus on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

We have to find ways to reduce private vehicle traffic, for all the reasons we already know : safety, noise, congestion, pollution (and yes, even electric vehicles generate pollution unless the electricity comes from a green/clean source. So it's either congestion pricing or come up with some better alternative. Status quo is not working. Time to adapt. As for the sheds, I can see the point of getting rid of them, but retaining outdoor dining at the same time. As I've mentioned a couple times, my preferred solution: widen sidewalks, and put sidewalk seating right up against the restaurant or café. Allow canopies (perhaps retractable) to cover the seating. So basically European café style. Design so there is no reduction in sidewalk pedestrian space, by the appropriate sidewalk widening. Seating can be removable or not. If any permanent structure is involved, that should be part of the building, built to code, and aesthetically fitting the building. This avoids covering roadways which may need repair and access. This avoids the problem of reducing pedestrian space. It avoids the problem of service crossing over pedestrian traffic. And no sheds required. — Marcus on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

Yeah, agreed. Big nope from me. Plus trying to have it both ways by saying she was for it before she was against it. Nothing has changed about the program and its plans and benefits. Either she didn't do her research before, or she's changing her mind due to political considerations. Either way, that's a bad look. My god, people. Just be prepared to pay to drive in the most congested part of Manhattan; it's for the greater good, or did we forget what that is? Or use transit, in a transit-rich neighborhood. She sounds like Phil Murphy. — malcolm on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

SO SAD!! I live upstairs and Kings was one of the best little gems in the neighborhood... hate seeing another small bizz go under. — Jme on Kings Pharmacy, a Tribeca staple for 25 years, will close on June 30

Also, it's apparently not zoned to be a parking lot either. Which is now seems to be. — victoria harmon on Nosy Neighbor: Why is the plaza at 33 Thomas closed?

For real. Absurdly out of touch. Outdoor dining is wildly popular. Returning to limited pre-covid sidewalk cafes would be a huge step backwards. Removable/seasonal in-street and sidewalk cafes with tables/chairs/umbrellas (no structures), as is being designed by DCP, strikes the proper balance between valid health/safety concerns and efficient use of public space. And congestion pricing is huge win for the city as a whole across various metrics—congestion, pollution, revenue generation, noise, public safety, etc.—even if a select few will be negatively impacted. — person on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

Sandra: Why is it scary? — SW on Nosy Neighbor: Why is the plaza at 33 Thomas closed?

This candidate is completely against congestion pricing and any version of an outdoor dining program? Sounds like a politician better suited to the suburbs, or the outer boroughs. The obsession w incentivizing and subsidizing every aspect of auto-centric life, in the country’s most urban, walkable and transit-rich city, is just mind boggling. You’ve lost our household’s vote; we actually show up to primary elections :). — Reader on Reade on City Council Primary 2023: Susan Lee

Doesn’t the article above say that this isn’t a public space after all? — SW on Nosy Neighbor: Why is the plaza at 33 Thomas closed?

Privately Owned Public Space. — Tribeca Citizen on Nosy Neighbor: Why is the plaza at 33 Thomas closed?