I remember after 9/11, Tribeca was a ghost town because nobody was going down there and businesses closed, but thanks to new restaurants, stores, residential buildings that were built, day care places and the Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca became a great neighborhood again. That is until the landlords got greedy and businesses went out - AGAIN! — Sherri Rosen on A Uno will move after 20 years on Duane

Every bank on Canal Street has safe deposit boxes. — James on In the News: Art in General will close here after 34 years

I have so many fond memories of the Paris Cafe from the 80’s through the 90’s when Pat MacMenamin and family ran the place. Working overnight about a mile away, we would end up at the Paris for midnight liquid lunches and 3-4 am forays after work. One of my funniest memories were of the residential tenants that moved in and out of the apartments above the Paris. They would see the apartment in the daytime and move in and be totally shocked with the floodlights noise and motion beginning to flow outside their windows at 1 am till 8 am. Not to mention the fishy smells. Good by Paris. — Mike Brody on After 147 years at the Seaport, The Paris Café is closing for good

Perelman programmers, if you're listening: high-quality, New Victory-level family programming would make a killing here. — Kathleen on The Perelman PAC has topped out and interior construction has begun

Re safe deposit boxes -- the Chase on Broadway and Murray has them (in the basement), though I have no idea if any are available. — N on In the News: Art in General will close here after 34 years

Faded commercial district? I'd say faded industrial district -- in the late 1980s! We moved in in 1993 and co-op conversions were well underway in the southern part of the neighborhood (N. Moore and south), and, if my memory is correct, the northern end really took off a couple of years after 9/11. In other news, the street seating patio for Reade Street Pub was dismantled on Tuesday, leaving a big mess of sand (from street de-icing over the winter is my best guess) and mud on the street. after they removed the floor decking. I was walking on Chambers yesterday and saw that construction was well underway something called Daily Goods at #86. From the signage it seems to be a branch of the juice+ place that's on John Street and in Chelsea Market. The retail on that side of that block got hit really hard by Covid so it cheered me up even though it's not the type of place I'd ordinarily frequent. — N on In the News: Truffles apartments for sale, eventually

Our building just redid our Jay St. sidewalk to seal the cracks and to prevent rats from getting into our building. Our super only puts the garbage bags out in the morning of the pick-up days. Please report garbage on the streets at other times by calling 311. — JS Miller on Seen & Heard: Rats!

I am very distressed about the HSBC news. I have been banking there for longer than I can remember. I hope all of the wonderful tellers who have been so helpful and friendly will keep their jobs. I will probably be moving to another bank. There is also the issue of the safe deposit boxes. HSBC in Tribeca is one of the few banks that has them. — JS Miller on In the News: Art in General will close here after 34 years

Are children under age 12 included in the number of "residents"? That could skew the percentages. I don't know the numbers but there seem to be a lot of kids in BPC and those are overall small zip codes! — Lisa on The latest covid tallies

Re HSBC: after two visits about a month apart, neither the VP/senior bank mgr or the assistant VP had answers to a number of my questions, including what happens to direct deposits into and bills automatically paid out of our current HSBC checking accounts (paychecks, pensions, social security, etc). You can go in and find out if your account is “tagged” to transfer over to Citizens. And both times I was told that Citizens is going to retain the physical branch space at Reade Street. The best they could offer as far as my many questions was that once all the official regulations are dealt with (they think 1st quarter 2022), a 90 day notice will be sent to all customers, and all will be revealed…supposedly. In the past, when Crossland Savings became something else and then HSBC took over the accounts, I do remember the checking accounts being transferred from one to the other by the banks themselves.. Hopefully this transition will happen seamlessly. Fingers crossed. — Roe on In the News: Art in General will close here after 34 years

Right! Will probably end up just being "The Cube". It can't be "The Box" since there's already a venue in NYC with that name. — Marcus on The Perelman PAC has topped out and interior construction has begun

I love it. Looking forward to shows and events here. Agreed that they should bring established talents, but I also hope they will use this venue as a place to introduce and showcase new and unknown talent. — Marcus on The Perelman PAC has topped out and interior construction has begun

I think it has more to do with the road construction. I walked by Worth street last night and rats were scurrying all around the open pits. — Reademan on Seen & Heard: Rats!

Could the proliferation of rats have anything to do with bits of edibles left over from the proliferation of dining areas in the streets? — George Bacon on Seen & Heard: Rats!

I work at 225 Liberty. There’s a roof deck?!?! — Aroon Balani on There are bees on the roof deck at Brookfield

Fan of The Shed here. No need to pit two billionaires' pet projects against one another. — LG on The Perelman PAC has topped out and interior construction has begun

What Tribeca really needs is a Pickle Ball court. — TribecaPickleBall on Nosy Neighbor: Why is the Bogardus clock often wrong?

This thing is going to be so much better than the underutilized mediocrity of the Shed at Hudson Yards. I am confident that the board members on this center will be successful in bringing in serious, established NYC and national talent to perform in this space, and the visual design once this building is cladded will be stunning. Someday in the future this may be an iconic theater to stand alongside NY’s preeminent arts venues. — GA on The Perelman PAC has topped out and interior construction has begun

Curious. I’m staying at my daughter’s on Jay street. A couple of days ago, on Tuesday, before 4:30 pm, a non garbage day, someone put out three white garbage bags in front of three different buildings. Rats started on them in the early evening. Is someone deliberately trying to create a problem? — Jesse on Seen & Heard: Rats!

Reade Street also has a chronic rat problem as they occupy any vacant building and the decrepit iron work above vaults and at building entrances. Despite the best efforts of restaurants, the rats have plentiful food supplies and places to hunker down. Frequent calls to 311 and messages to CB1 and the DoH have not resulted in any action and the problems continues to escalate. — Robert on Seen & Heard: Rats!

rats are everywhere in tribeca. Duane st bw west broadway and broadway they run around literally furing day and same with those huge waterbugs. Its out of control like it was 20 years ago. I am afraid to walk my dogs on a damn sidewalk and where flip flops. Need some reporters to do a story so maybe this city will do something. — Adam Glassman on Seen & Heard: Rats!

The eventual street name has to be the ice cube, or maybe just the cube? — Barclay on The Perelman PAC has topped out and interior construction has begun

I am employed at Citi 388 G and it is 2 days, which is indicated in memo due to Delta Virus. — NinaSimone on In the News: Citigroup will require vaccines

FT reported that they’re gut renovating to sell apartments to wealthy individuals and investors, which sounded like a condo conversion to me. But now CO has an article up stating that Related is planning a 291 unit apartment building and that Related had been working with an architect to reposition the building as a luxury multifamily building, so that sounds like it’s staying rental. Certainly would make more sense given the ground lease. — person on Nosy Neighbor: Why is the Bogardus clock often wrong?

Truffles is built on land ground-leased from a private owner. Hotel or co-op or rental are the three choices generally in this scenario, all things being equal. Not condo. — James on Nosy Neighbor: Why is the Bogardus clock often wrong?