the murray st library is such a joke. who is actually in charge? — nyc on Community Board 1 agendas for January

https://gothamist.com/news/opponents-lower-manhattan-towers-would-prefer-tow-pound-instead "[...] Sarah McNally, the owner of McNally Jackson bookstore with an outpost in the Seaport, has been baffled by how long a parking lot has managed to last in a land-scarce city like New York. "She recalled a recent landmarks community board committee meeting where members were 'gleefully' touting how many projects had failed. " ' I’m like, ‘This is crazy.’ You’re defending a parking lot. You’re proud of this,' McNally said. [...]" — James on Community Board 1 agendas for January

NYPD is sending detectives to California to interview her. WTF, she fled the scene of a crime. She should be forced to turn herself in and travel back to NYC on her own dime to be charged and interviewed. She physically attacked a 14 year old kid. — TribecaMom on Demands for the arrest of “Soho Karen” continue

Thanks so much for this ! — j. on Listen Up: The Year in Music

I've recommended this hotel many times, but no more. The Arlo has had plenty of time to educate its staff and create awareness re: racial profiling. It's been open since at least 2017...And were the events of 2020 not enough of a catalyst for them to make this kind of training a priority? That the manager took the side of this woman, with her irrational demands, and then allowed her to leave (after tackling/assualting Mr. Harrold's son) before the police arrived, is further evidence of her privilege and the manager's (and the hotel's) grievous error in judgement. I doubt very much that this incident would have unfolded in this manner had Ms. Ponsetto been obviously a woman of color. The Arlo took its time in responding to the incident publicly, as well. And on their Twitter feed, there's no evidence of the incident at all. As of today, she's still not been questioned, nor charged. — kimberly m. wang on Demands for the arrest of “Soho Karen” continue

Yes, agree. Very sad situation. — j. on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital

This was first time I heard. Heartbreaking and enraging. I signed the linked petition. Thanks for bringing light to this story. Change can't come soon enough. — j. on Demands for the arrest of “Soho Karen” continue

I have a contact at the NY Post that would like to speak with you regarding your post, would you like to do it? — J on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital

I, like many, understand the symbolic gesture this statue represents. You can try and rationalize all day that it is only a historical mythological reference, but we ALL know it is much more than that, but keeping with the mythological storyline, Athena's jealousy and bitterness cursed Medusa for what Poseidon did. Yet, this statue is only depicts vengeance upon the Man and ignores Athena's transgression. Why isn't Medusa also holding the head of Athena? Is the representation to suggest only Men will receive this perverted sense of justice? Why not just replace lady justice with this statue now. This would depict a perfect example of "Toxic Feminism". Where's the #NOH8 campaign on that, or does such a campaign only side with the transgressions of LGBTQ and Women? While this statue represents the anger and torment of a women having been raped, it also depicts the toxic retribution of a society accepting of such vengeance. RAPE DOES NOT JUSTIFY POST MEDITATED MURDER. With centuries of racial acts against people of color; from slavery, acts of discrimination, and racial targeting by authorities and the courts..... should there be a statue next to this of a mythological or superhuman colored individual lynching figures representing white male & female Judges, police officers, ect? Of course not, hate begets hate, violence begets violence. So why is this statue celebrated so much? Should there be a statue of a Father showing his children torn away from him by the court system and him holding a saber with Lady Justice's head in his other hand? Should there be a statue of LGBTQs depicting violent and discriminatory acts against those who have oppressed them? The only thing such representations of hate, anger, and vengeance do is incite the same in others. I won't argue, it is a wonderful and very powerful piece of art. Dare I say, comparable to art created during the renaissance. However, there's a very different narrative and feeling this piece invokes that the prior did not and that message isn't one our society should feel comfortable entertaining. Other than the inappropriate message this invokes, it doesn't belong on public streets. Have we come so far as a society that we think it's ok and rationalize placing naked figures on street corners? I see no difference between this and pornography. Can you imagine walking past this with your young children and having to explain why their is a naked statue of a women holding a severed head of a man on the street corner? The possible fears running through the mind of a little girl attempting to understand and imagining what is being explained to her. The possible hatred such young girls might form towards men in the future imagining such violations against her friends, Mother, or herself. You wonder why many children of color are afraid of police..... it's no different. We need to flip the script and change the narrative. In the same way many good police officers go out of their way to help out or become familiar within primarily colored neighborhoods. In the same way, we need to change the view we are depicting of men. Just look at the previous comments....from acceptance and approval of an act of murder to lust. Many don't even care the symbolic nature of this statue, it's just like the Leg Lamp from Christmas Story......from "glowing sex" to cast in bronze. Does the fact that she took justice into her own hands and murdered someone make it ok? If that's the case, with the debated elections, corruption of congressional officials, gender discriminating court justices, racist cops ...... I dare say Biden was absolutely right, the Worst is definitely yet to come. — V for Vendetta on Art in Tribeca: Medusa gets her man

I moved in this neighborhood in 1981. I was 14 years old and, my father lived at 310 Greenwich St. I got older and left the neighborhood. And came back in 2001. Tribeca hardware was a fixture for so long. It outlasted 99 cent stores, restaurants, and so many others. I always could depend on our hardware store that carried EVERYTHING. Until one day I was walking down Chamber Street and could NOT believe that the signed read CLOSED. I wondered if it was do to lock downs or rent increase. Well whatever the reason we lost another family owned business that was really a staple in our community. Very very sad😞 — Lisa on Tribeca Hardware is closing at the end of the summer

Unfortunately the current list of candidates is very weak. We need a strong mayor to bring the city back to the pre-DiBlasio days. https://www.curbed.com/article/everyone-running-for-new-york-city-mayor.html — TribecaMom on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital

The city needs to help the mentally ill. If they don't this will never end. The mentally ill, need to be in homes, not shelters. They need to be in a program that doctors watch them and get them on the right meds, then put in homes where they can get their meds and made sure they take their meds. Our jails and shelters are filled with the mentally ill and it is getting us nowhere. So until we deal with the mentally ill this is not going to stop. — t on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital

I first moved to NYC in 1972. I left in 1978 after I was assaulted for the fourth time. A million other New Yorkers also fled during the 70s and 80s, mostly to escape crime. Hollywood made movies like "Death Wish," "Escape from NY" and "Fort Apache." Mayor Giuliani rescued the City by actually doing something about crime and people moved back. Eventually NY became a wonderful place so I returned in 2009. When De Blasio was elected on a social justice platform many predicted "Back to the Future." They were denounced as "racists." Bail reform and the elimination of stop and frisk and broken windows policing have had a predictable effect. The out migration started 3 years before Covid. According to Zillow my Tribeca apartment is now worth way less than I paid for it. All of the current Mayoral aspirants are calling for "equity" and "justice." Fuhgeddabout safety. Goodbye NYC. — Lowrider on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital

I pray for everyone’s sake that you take a really hard look at those running Nov 2021. Start reading up now on who they are, question every statement and their position on the things we all know are important in our beloved city. I implore all to do this. And don’t vote Democrat just because. Don’t be complacent. Debozo is a disgusting human as is his wife. There are some that have expressed publicly they are running and those very same hold similar positions as debozo. Don’t assume that just because he can’t run doesn’t mean there aren’t people that hold the same beliefs, ideologies and positions as he does. Seriously do your homework. If you love this city, please! — Cordcutter on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital

One BIG issue not being talked about above is what can we do to make things better. I think we need to elect a new mayor with a commitment to keeping the city safe as a critical issue over other priorities all else equal. Ray MacGuire perhaps has shown the most interest here? Other views? If we all want to live in a better, safer area - we need to fix the problem by electing a leader with that agenda. — Scared on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital

I can ask around some more. My queries to the architects have gone unanswered. — Tribeca Citizen on The owner behind the townhouse at 11 Hubert

I said nothing rude at all. I pointed out that the author of this blog is free to post as she likes without insults from you. And that the victims are the real concern here. — Kristin on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital

I arrived in 1972 when there were few police to be seen. People walked around with "mugger money" to pay off thugs. The first real change in police came under Mayor Dinkins who got enough Federal Money to create "Safe Streets, Safe Cities" and put about 3000 cops walking local beats on every corner. He also brought in Bill Bratton and his broken window theory. Google it. Prior to that cops sat in their cars, as terrified as we were. It was called "cooping." We have good cops and bad cops, good mayors and bad. The best Mayors hire the best Chiefs of Police. If our city isn't safe. nothing much else matters. — Here A While on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital

Any idea on the construction timeline? — person on The owner behind the townhouse at 11 Hubert

Good point. I just added details to the post. 23 units at 80 percent AMI. No word there on what agency will administer it. — Tribeca Citizen on Landmarks approves new building for Broadway and Thomas

That's pretty rude Kristin, no need to be like that. — Jimmy from Trib on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital

We elected DeBalsio (twice!). He really hasn’t deviated from what he said he was going to do. So who is to blame? We re-elect our city council, state Assembly Members and Senators, Governor, etc even though they are implementing the policies that are destroying our quality of life. We have a handful of candidates for Mayor, do any of them have a legitimate plan to decrease the alarming rise in crime? Yet we will accept this and go and vote for them anyway. Sorry Eve if this is not written to your high standard of journalism. It is just my thoughts. — A2 on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital

A lifetime NY'er and have seen many mayors.. Starting with Koch to Dinkins to Giuliani to Bloomberg.. and now De Blassio! I completely agree that he has been the worst of all I have lived through... He seems more interested in making liberally pleasing statements than truly stepping in and doing the hard work needed to keep NYC Safe for all of it's residents. This was already an ongoing issue but COVID has certainly accelerated the pace of decline. As far as the best? Although he's quite clearly crazy right now (Not sure WHAT happened to him)... Rudy Giuliani in my opinion did the most to help turn NYC around in the late 90's If anyone remembers it all started with an increased police presence - Making NYC safe.. after which more people wanted to not only work but LIVE here as well... — Rohin on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital

The city and the crime is over the top. Deblasio and his bail reform and defunding the police are the reason. Cops do not want to do their jobs because of the Mayor's hatred for them. Call 911 you will wait a long time for a response by NYPD. Sad and true. No one is accountable for any crimes that are committed right now. They have the get out of jail free card. You can assault' and rob someone and get away with it. Out on the street to do it again. Our Governor turned his back on the city also. He is only worried about Covid, which he should be. Also shutting and fining our businesses, Which need to survive. But really don't give a damn about our city and the uptake in crime. Deblasio putting men homeless men alot of them sex offenders in hotels make shift shelters in our neighborhood. Without us even approving with community board meetings. We need to fight for this not to happen. Our safety is not important to the mayor. Only Mentally Ill sex offenders homeless men. Please go to Downtown NYCers for safer streets. Contribute to the fight to save downtown. We have problems with numerous shelters coming to our neighborhoods. Basically mentally ill homeless men ( some sex offenders) right near our homes and schools. We are fighting the Radison hotel which the mayor did behind our backs. Also, another men's shelter 105 Washington Street with no cerfew sex offenders which the building was bought and opening 2022. Without any knowledge to our community. Sad and shameful. The rape in Kips Bay was a man who was in the men's shelter in Bellevue. If we don't fight we will be prisoners in our own homes. The city is in free fall. — New York on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital

This is so sad. — j. on Man terrorizes the neighborhood for an hour, sending eight to the hospital