These docks are getting ridiculous! Put them in places like the NW corner of Chambers & WSH where they don't block restaurants, deliveries, or resident buildings. It's absurd. — Jason on Duane Street residents seeking input on Citi Bike location

How do we petition to scale back the expanded rack along Warren? How do we petition to save The Hideaway and others in Duane Park with these ugly monstrosities of bikes in terrible locations? There is an empty building on Church -- put it there. There is a new club on Greenwich -- put it there. Is anyone listening to residents' complaints about these enormous bike racks or is it just deaf ears to inconvenience people that have cars? — Jason on Citi Bike is expanding in all sorts of directions

Exhibit A, Pam. T won't pay a penny for all these bags. Unfair. Spare me people can use their own bags. You do know we all ultimately have to dispose of most of our garbage into plastic bags, so what the hell is the difference between using plastic grocery bags & Hefty/Glad bags? Then let's charge people a nickel for every restaurant meal which includes paper napkins. A nickel per napkin. How 'bout a nickel for every takeout bag? Oh wait, I forgot, dining out and ordering in isn't wasteful PSSSHHHHH. — Recycle on Plastic bags be gone

Thanks, Melanie! — Rachel Thebault on Made in Tribeca: Woodley + Lowe

Thanks, Daniela!! Looking forward to seeing many of my old TT fans, like Isabella, supporting this new venture. xx — Rachel Thebault on Made in Tribeca: Woodley + Lowe

The rich "care about the environment" by ordering takeout 3-7 times a week & having all their groceries delivered in plastic bags & cardboard boxes? What a laughable statement. They sure can afford to hurt the environment by ordering takeout, grocery delivery, and Amazon all the time. You missed my point which comes from me knowing about the law & you having no clue about it for you to accuse of me being classist which I am not so let me break it down like all the rich people around here break down their wasteful cardboard delivery boxes: If a little old lady on a fixed income buys 4 bags of groceries without using her own bags, she is charged 20 cents. If a 27 year old hedge fund manager orders takeout for dinner 4 times a week he is charged nothing for the 4 plastic bags (or the plastic utensils & paper napkins) used to deliver his food. Therefore the law is unfair as well as classist. People who mostly grocery shop & can't afford to order alot of takeout or groceries in one shot are penalized while people who can afford to have dinner delivered half the week or more or eight bags of groceries delivered are not. That's classist. So is a janitor being charged 20 cents for 4 plastic bags while a doctor is charged nothing for food or grocery. You deny the fee is a heavy burden on a fixed income person? Because you live on a fixed income? Again $5 a month for plastic bags is $60 a year which could be used towards a prescription, a flu shot, health products, or just your favorite cookies. What part of recyclable plastic grocery bags are used to throw out garbage do you not understand? The bag fee is a sales tax & the cost of plastic bags for garbage is an additional sales tax of sorts. — Recycle on Plastic bags be gone

AT&T building Church Street — Macster on Where in Tribeca?

There is another bigger dock 200 ft away on Hudson and Reade. The Duane location was always a mystery given how close those two are. — MB on Duane Street residents seeking input on Citi Bike location

I use neighbors in the sense that many Tribecans use Citibike. When you can't find an open dock, due to the enormous and growing amount of commuters, that's annoying! I actually do commute from Tribeca to FiDi on Citi bike to work. WE DO EXIST! The argument that expanding a public service that is seeing record usage because now you can't jaywalk is an extremely selfish argument. The NY exceptionalism of having the "right" to jaywalk vs. expanding a mass transit option is exactly the kind of thinking that hamper social improvements. It's shallow, shortsighted, and selfish. And let's talk about the commuter argument. I for one, really think we need to have people commuting back to downtown to help our local economy. We are pretty low density in terms of residency, which is one thing that makes Tribeca such a great place to live. But our local business' will be the first to tell you they need the office workers in the surrounding area to thrive let alone survive. You have to offer alternative methods of transportation, especially now when the subway and bus are, in the public opinion, considered less safe. Your tongue and cheek dismissal of NYers inalienable right to bike downtown is glib and unhelpful. At no point did I argue that was someone's right. In fact, you are the one who is trying to make the objectionably silly argument it's a NYers right to jaywalk. I ask you to take a step back and really think about how supporting someone's complaint that their walk now takes 30-45 seconds more than it once did so that should come at the expense of mass transit / public good. — DB on Citi Bike is expanding in all sorts of directions

Buy a tank of worms and feed them your compost - new pets : ) — wormpost on Seen & Heard: Composting back at Greenmarket

We need early voting to be from October 1st through two days before Election Day in 2024. October 24 - November 1 (the week before Election Day) is a ridiculously short amount of time for EV compared to NJ whose early voting began on Saturday September 18th. Also we need more than one early voting site for the lower West side of Manhattan. Trinity Church couldn't have served as a polling site? More drop boxes too. It is absurd that an area with literally hundreds of thousands of residents has exactly one early voting site and one ballot drop box outside of it three blocks apart. — Election Reform Now on Early voting has started!

DB: Unless you're using "neighbors" as synonym for all who work in NYC, by your own analysis those "neighbors" are "people are using the bikes to get downtown in the morning, and then only at night do the docks open back up for the return commute." You seem to have a very expansive definition of neighbors: we're all citizens of the world too. Kudos to Tribeca Trib for stating the obvious that you "can’t walk between Citi Bikes unless one is not in the dock.." That response is appropriate & credible if you're a neighborhood publication. On other hand if, like DB, you're advocate of ___ then fill in as you see fit. I don't own a car and like any native NYer consider it my 'right' to jaywalk when it saves me time (& presented with the opportunity). You've no doubt heard of a "NY minute" right? I too find it unpleassant (but not an end-of-the world disaster) that so much of Tribeca streetscape is now occupied by so many CitiBike docking stations. This is trivial minutiae. I hadn't realized one of NYers' inalienable rights was to commute downtown via bicycle to go to work. Tribeca has many, many subways and buses providing public transportation and if you drive a car, parking lots do exist. Bikes are also fine, but there's a limit on everything. There's only so much NYC and many, many people have a claim on it. REPLY — Ben on Citi Bike is expanding in all sorts of directions

Congratulations, Rachel!!! That's such great news! — Melanie on Made in Tribeca: Woodley + Lowe

I am torn about the move of the Greenwich/Duane station because I use it constantly!! But I also want to be a good neighbor and want the businesses in TriBeCa to thrive. So I will let the professional look at their #'s and make the decision. I'm taking the same attitude concerning Covid-19. — TG on Duane Street residents seeking input on Citi Bike location

May I suggest Duane Street Patisserie? Many wonderful and tasty yummies. — TG on Made in Tribeca: Woodley + Lowe

Thank you so much for this follow up! I did not like being called a liar from a commenter on your last piece. I too believe Lorenzo is doing the right thing to get through the Halloween season safely. It's nice to see people in the area enjoying themselves even if it is only for a couple of weeks. — FR on Examining the crowds and the screams at Blood Manor

Congratulations Rachel!! So great to see you back in business. We definitely miss Tribeca Treats but I’m so happy you found a new venture. Isabella will be first on line!! Good Luck! — Daniela Brady on Made in Tribeca: Woodley + Lowe

Great piece - this is what good local reporting is about. You gave us all sides of the story, and did it all in an entertaining "you are there" style that's much appreciated. — Will on Examining the crowds and the screams at Blood Manor

Need to ask, what are we to do with all the reusable bags from Target and Fresh Direct. I have about 50 of them. Neither will take back because of covid. So do I just too them into the trash. Is that a good for the environment . I don't think so. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. — t on Plastic bags be gone

Yes, if you are talking to me, I absolutely deny that the ban is a heavy burden on those with a fixed income. Everyone can bring their own bags. And it is classist to assume that only the rich can afford to care about the environment. The little old lady on a fixed income might be just as diligent and caring about unnecessary waste. — Tribeca Citizen on Plastic bags be gone

What's with not allowing people against the ban to comment? You deny that the cost of plastic bags will be a heavy burden on fixed income people including the elderly who don't qualify for the exemption from the nickel fee? If someone like this pays say $5 a month on garbage bags that's $60 a year which could be spent on medications, toiletries, and health products. This law is also classist because in theory someone who orders in every meal and grocery order doesn't have to pay a nickel in bag fees despite using wayyy more plastic bags than a little old lady who buys 2-3 bags of groceries a week. — Recycle on Plastic bags be gone

Maybe NYPD should do actual policewotk like walk the beat, station patrol cars at hotspots, stop crimes in progress, and catch criminals on the run instead of do none of thst, turn streets into their private parking lots, and loaf around at them. And since you want to accuse me and/or whoever else of being buddies of people "messing with police cars" (whatever the hell that is) how bout you stop being a cops are always right thus never do anything wrong cop bootlicker? Your dystopian view of NYC is BS. You want the Giuliani era back. We'll you're not getting it. Fascism mixed with corporatism is over. You know there is a worldwide pandemic right? With a total careless moron with no plan to fight it in Trump. Hence the situation we're in. But you continue with your tired the city is going to hell drivel. Btw you could care less about the homeless save to seep them away like garbage. You and half the commenters on this NIMBY and pro-Trump plagued site. — NYPDo Nothings on Nosy Neighbor: Why does the NYPD have West Broadway closed?

Did Michael and everyone open a coffee house at another location. We visited from the UK on many trips to NYC? — Julie on Imperial Coffee House Has Closed

He rents for the year, and leaves it empty for all but those 19 or so days. That's why he was applying for a liquor license -- so he could run a restaurant or a party space. But he's given that idea up, for now. The parties that went on last year, which were the source of the complaints here, came with their own caterer's alcohol event permit. — Tribeca Citizen on Examining the crowds and the screams at Blood Manor

So, does Lorenzo take out a lease for a month (or two) each Halloween to stage Blood Manor? If so, this implies that the storefront is empty and available for a long-term lease for the other 10 or 11 months. It also implies that street level space in Tribeca continues to be in large excess supply, which is not good for the NYC economy - pre and post COVID! — Ted on Examining the crowds and the screams at Blood Manor