If free and easy on-street parking isn't compatible with lower Manhattan, then why is it available to city workers? The point I was trying to make is that enforcement of traffic laws should be universal. Having read your article, I am very surprised at your statistic that e-bikes are more observant of red lights. Not around my neighborhood as I walk my dog around the neighborhood! And you say nothing about the bikes and scooters driving the wrong way on one way streets or darting up sidewalks that are for pedestrians. I shouldn't have sped. I get it. I probably will not get a ticket again because the traffic won't allow it, I don't drive often, and I am now aware. But enforcement of laws should be consistent. For what it's worth, I also support congestion pricing. — Elizabeth on In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses

Apparently the speed limit is now 20. No one would ever know that since the street is usually backed up with traffic. — elizabeth on In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses

Sorry, your lone justifiable outrage IMO is that cops, firemen, court officers and other apparatchiks get free parking spaces. We all feel your pain over that. But the rest? Chambers Street is within the Lower Manhattan Regional Slow Zone established under NY State's Sammy's Law, for which hundreds of grieving moms, dads and sibs fought for years (under the banner of Families for Safe Streets, a project of Transportation Alternatives). The limit within the zone is indeed 20 mph. Your 31 mph, which just "qualified" you for your speeding ticket (due to the 11 mph "float"), is flat-out too fast for downtown. Hopefully, it'll be your last ticket. (It was for me, btw.) You don't actually pay a toll to drive in your 'hood. You pay to drive *into* it. Yes, that's somewhat arbitary -- binary pricing is, by nature -- but the toll has shrunk traffic -- hooray! -- and is paying for long-needed transit upgrades like subway station elevators and faster trains (via smarter track signals). Note that even w/o loathsome placard abuse, you would soon have a tough time finding free parking, as some of your neighbors would also eye the free spaces and opt to buy a car. Not to mention that people like me would agitate to convert some of those spaces to public plazas and outdoor dining. It's axiomatic, or should be, that free and easy on-street parking isn't compatible with lower Manhattan's hyper-urbanism. Lean into it. Re the e-bikes and Citibikes. I wrote about that last month for Vital City: https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/making-micromobility-work-nyc/. I'd be interested to have your thoughts. — Komanoff on In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses

Don't the speed cameras only kick in at 11mph over? So wouldn't that mean at least 36mph? — malcolm on In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses

Meantime, I just got a speeding ticket by a camera going 31 on Chambers Street on a surprisingly clear road, but the e-bikes and Citibikes can speed all around on sidewalks and the wrong way on one way streets. Cars and vans can double park with impunity. I pay a toll to drive in my neighborhood and pay a fortune to park here because these nameless city workers get free spaces to make their commutes more convenient. So yeah, this makes me mad. But I already was. — Elizabeth on In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses

Joke or not, that sign has to go. — Marcus on Seen & Heard: Wayfinding for a counterfeit bazaar

Second that; thank you for the compelling history of this building (and our neighborhood)! When available, would be great to get an update on the new owner and any medium-term plans to renovate and restore this magnificent building. Hopefully any new use and restoration will bring some of the original elements (including the loading bay roof) back to life. — Reader on Reade on 54 Laight Street in the Tribeca North Historic District is for sale

Congratulations for staying in business in Tribeca. I had a storefront in Tribeca with my family for over 50 years but had to move due to the high rent costs. The Civil Service Book Shop. I miss Tribeca and would like move my business back to the area. — Amy Bergenfeld on Spotlight: Greenwich St. Jewelers at 50

Apparently Chip City shuttered all 20+ of its retail locations this week. — James Bogardus on Cookies coming to 325 Greenwich

Sorry, but to whom should businesses cater, if not the neighborhood families who live and raise children there? — K on Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow

Even though the location was busy, the setup isn’t aligned with the renewed architectural focus of the brand. There is also another Starbucks two blocks away, likely with much lower rent. Nonetheless I hope this does not become another encampment like every other empty storefront. — Matt on Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow

Spas……we need more nail spas. — Francesco on Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow

You are absolutely right. Tribeca has become a soulless land of chain cafés, spas and orthodontists. All about Tribeca moms and kids. — R. on Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow

Looking at other people = fun. Being looked at = not so fun. This is (still) a gross invasion of privacy, that has an immense "ick factor" meant to evoke controversy and publicity. If the family had any idea they were being photographed, I am sure they would have pulled the shade. A decent "neighbor" would have informed them. This "artist" was no neighbor - he was an exploiter. — Downtown Dad Again on Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor

The photograph begs the question: when is that scaffolding coming down? Seems a very very long time that it has been up -- — George Bacon on Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow

ITS BACK BETTER THAN EVER! BEST LOCAL PLACE FOR A DRINK AND GOOD FOOD!!! CANT WAIT FOR LUNCH!!! — AA on North Bar is closing for the summer — and will reopen as something new

Since this issue is in play again, I'll opine that the "fluid boundaries between public and private space" is an intriguing issue that touches on the very idea of privacy at home. I have no easy answer, but am drawn to the artist's tools here. If Hopper used a palette, easel and brushes, and painted what was readily visible, so be it. But if the photographer's "reach" was enhanced by a telephoto lens, do we have a separate issue of subjects being photographed while not feeling that they were vulnerable to observation (i.e., not playing the exhibitionist/voyeur game)? If every person's home is their castle, those who do worry about these possible intrusions from afar are advised to keep the moat filled, the drawbridge up – and the curtains drawn. — Gary on Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor

I think you would feel differently if your private moments with your children were being surveilled and photographed. People shouldn't have to live with their curtains closed to have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their own home. The undeniably beautiful images do not erase the violation which produced these photos. Sometimes courts and the law get it wrong. I am not the family that brought the lawsuit but am aware of the impact having their privacy violated in this way had on that family. — Fiona on Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor

Truly sad. Got our son's first "Tribeca Cool Kids" clothes there 15 years ago (on sale!) and they couldn't have been more kind over the following years. Never pushy, always helpful to find the right fit and never with an agenda like most stores (hey - the full price stuff is waay nicer ;) ) Gee Whiz, Frankly, and now Koh's. What's next -- Mudville? Young parents are toast today. Will be missed for sure. — Downtown Dad Again on Koh’s Kids on Greenwich has closed

The graffiti in question looks very similar to the same outside of Target (on the never-ending construction barriers) which questioned "Tribeca - Why So White?" which attacks a neighborhood in which the culprit likely does not live but enjoys slamming. Just gross all around. — Downtown Dad Again on Tribeca-branded graffiti on West Broadway

Our apartment was inside the "frozen zone" and when we were finally able to return to it in mid-October, I remember the street sweepers constantly running up and down the streets and wondering if the grit I felt under my feet as I walked down the street would ever disappear. — Makes You Go Hmmmm.... on A documentary honors the work of the Sanitation Department after 9/11

I was shocked when I was walking around Tribeca. I've been living away, so coming back now and seeing so many shops we all loved gone is surprising. This area has undergone many changes over the past 25 years, from dollar stores and discount shops to gentrification. Now, banks and Starbucks have closed, and the list goes on. But this location was always busy with high schoolers, kids, and Tribeca moms. NYC downtown isn't what I remember; it's very sad to see it like this. — Van on Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow

Or make it a mall of counterfeiters, like a Needle Park or, better yet, the modern-day Essex Market of counterfeiting. Our Mayor likes to see himself as the second coming of LaGuardia. He could move the independent immigrant peddlers and open-air markets off the streets and into an indoor public market, easing congestion of very crowded city streets. — James Bogardus on Tribeca-branded graffiti on West Broadway

The Starbucks on Chambers and W. Broadway is definitely popular and it's situated in a dream spot considering the subway lines. The seating in there is pretty limited, but I'd still be curious as to why that one is going. — Jslv on Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow

Given the illegal activities surrounding the building, maybe a museum celebrating the counterfeiting industry would be an appropriate use of the space. — Reademan on Tribeca-branded graffiti on West Broadway