Yes!! Sydney's Place- such a throwback. I have many great memories there. — Daniela on Cocoon has opened in the Best Market Space

If I didn’t know Tribeca, this comment section sure would make me never want to live there. Y’all are rude with ugly ‘tudes. Maybe try not to bully your neighbors? — Disturbed on Cocoon has opened in the Best Market Space

I hate to break this to lower Manhattan residents but all those trucks are still going to clog up your streets, except they will be arriving and leaving via the Holland Tunnel and Canal Street. — staten islander on Verrazzano Bridge toll will soon go both ways

Theres a copy at the Barnes & Noble — RP on Where art and family collide

$500 a month for a play space? What happened to play dates & going to the park? Guess it’s easier for all the babysitters to congregate & parents feel less guilty. — Kathy on Cocoon has opened in the Best Market Space

Thank you for sharing your collection with us. Really beautiful, colorful and thought provoking. — TG on Where art and family collide

I am dismayed at the hostility directed at these two families who have opened a kids' center. WoW! It isn't there fault we lost Best Market (which I loved!). We should welcome them with open arms. When my daughter was young this isn't something I could afford but I trust between all her friends and community she would have spent days there having fun and going to birthday parties. I am putting my Mom hat on now to scold you all! This isn't how we treat our neighbors. Sadly I'm not surprised though. Welcome Cocoon! I look forward to walking by with my dog and seeing a lot of fun and learning coming from your new wonderful space. And LOVE it you have Boxed Water!!! I'm a big fan. — TG on Cocoon has opened in the Best Market Space

I don’t see how this solves the Barclays Center to Newark Airport problem in Sam’s own example. That route will still be free for trucks over the Brooklyn/Manhattan bridges and out the Holland Tunnel. That issue will only be solved when the (now delayed) congestion pricing tolls those bridges to incoming traffic. That’s bound to make an major impact. Stay tuned... — Doubtful on Verrazzano Bridge toll will soon go both ways

Just sharing a different perspective since we're a family living in the building. I can't even describe how grateful I am to have Cocoon open during this current time. Parents have it unbelievably hard. Our kids and new baby, and my husband have been full time at home since the pandemic started. It's been extremely stressful not having another space to visit, especially more so now that it's getting cold. We needed a space like this to bring some sense of joy and normalcy back to the family. I think businesses like this help to remake NYC. Stay healthy and happy everyone. — Besty on Cocoon has opened in the Best Market Space

This cute little guy is located on the old Montrachet restaurant at 239 West Broadway next to Frenchette. Whoever drew this character was I think quite happy at the time! regards, Sonia — SONIA STOCK on Where in Tribeca?

Manny is a neighborhood treasure. During my 16+ years with him at Downtown Soccer, Manny has never failed to put the interests of our kids before his own. Our league is and has been a reflection of his very very big heart. Thank you Manny for bringing so much joy to so many for so long to. Best, Will Rogers — William Rogers on Citizen of the Month: Manny D’Almeida

I’m glad to at least see some of the vacant storefronts being filled, but I echo the sentiments about how useful a grocery store would in that area. This isn’t even something that would benefit me personally, but I strongly dislike the idea of Whole Foods basically having a monopoly on groceries in west Tribeca, especially now that the Amish Market is gone. I hope something can eventually be worked out that helps better serve that area. — James on Cocoon has opened in the Best Market Space

Of course it isn't Cocoon's fault but it is VORNADO's fault not to consider the needs of the residents. Since Gluck/Stellar took over and now Vornado, NOTHING has been done to rent the commercial spaces with services that can be used by all residents. I am not saying ONLY for residents of IPN, that's ridiculous. I think it is disgraceful that there wasn't a Community meeting to discuss this. Was there? — LongTimeResident on Cocoon has opened in the Best Market Space

Yeah, the Giuliani & Bloomberg days when minorities were constantly harassed, assaulted, and sometimes killed by police for no reason other than them being black or brown. Sounds like the good ol days. What’s your next idea? Bring back Jim Crow? — Evan on Patron of the New patrons robbed at gunpoint

Thank you Lynn! — Beloved O on In the News: The Odeon’s curbside social hierarchy

Teachers are supposed to teach not campaign for or try to indoctrinate stufents into political parties. — Hello on We’re back, baby.

2014 -- was being lazy. — Tribeca Citizen on Wyeth has closed its store on Canal

When is that bottom photo from? — cd on Wyeth has closed its store on Canal

The Odeon genuinely strives to make every guest feel welcome and appreciated. Our neighborhood customers, regulars and less frequent visitors, are the reason The Odeon remains. We appreciate all of you and never forget what keeps us going. If your experience does not meet your expectations, please ask to speak to a manager to express your particular dissatisfaction. We will do our best to rectify the situation. Thomas Street is unavailable for our use M-F 7am to 7pm. That means whatever we set up there must be easily movable to accommodate the short 2 hours (7pm-9pm) of service M-F. (weekends open). We would love to build a platform and make the cafe as "solid" as the one on West Broadway, but the roadway is reserved for the use of NYS Supreme Court Judges' parking. Regarding The New Yorker article, I responded to the editor to correct false statements. Unfortunately, implied jabs are irresistible to many reviewers and beyond our control. Letter to the Editor of The New Yorker: "If nothing else, the last four years have reminded us that facts matter. In a recent “Tables for Two” piece, writer Hannah Goldfield delivered a piece on The Odeon which relied on speculation rather than truth. Admittedly the current strains on the hospitality business has made many restaurateurs, myself included, especially prickly. Taking the time to point out untrue statements in reviews is usually written off as inevitable journalistic sloth. However in these precarious times even the slightest imaginative liberty elevates a disheartening comment to a potentially damaging one. Beginning with the purported “impulse to offer support”, the writer proceeds to describe a nonexistent (and unappealing) situation. “This means that even the makeshift patio has its own Siberia, as a dining room’s least desirable section is known. One particularly unlucky couple sat within swinging distance of the door to the kitchen, through which produce is loaded and line cooks emerge for cigarette breaks." The statement is patently assumptive and false. 1 – Other than an alarmed kitchen fire exit door there is no kitchen door that opens to the sidewalk. A second door, also an emergency exit but from the dining room, is currently left open so servers and bussers can access the Thomas St café to service guests. Deliveries NEVER go through either of those emergency exits, pre-pandemic or post. (and why would they when we have 24 hour access to an elevator directly next to the main entrance of the restaurant on West Broadway?) 2 – Cooks are not permitted, even in better times, to leave the premises for breaks. No staff is allowed to exit or enter the restaurant from either emergency exit side door for personal use. They are alarmed and locked. No one, front of house or back of house, is allowed to take cigarette breaks while working. As it happens, when I spoke to the kitchen crew about the reviewer’s claims, it turned out there was not one smoker in the entire group. 3 – Lesser falsehoods: Why the large bottle of Purell on the dining table in the photograph without identifying it as the writer’s? (Perhaps better that the writer use it to sanitize her article rather than a prop for a photo shoot.) The martini photo at the top of the page is also unnecessarily misleading. The Odeon serves three olives (see 2nd photo) with its signature martinis and we do not use a bar code ordering system as is pictured in the lead photo insinuating we do. Respectfully, Lynn Wagenknecht The Odeon — Lynn Wagenknecht on In the News: The Odeon’s curbside social hierarchy

I DO completely understand the neighborhood frustration with losing services for old time residents, especially needing a more affordable supermarket, within close proximity. But that ire should be, and has been in the past, directed at Vornado. I don't think its fair to shame a place rich people want to take their kids to play. Cocoon didn't force out the old tenants and raise the rents, they're merely trying to open a business that caters to the wealthy. It's not their fault and at least its a non vacant storefront. There are plenty of children locally, I really don't see this as a magnet for kids coming from far away ( and other playspaces in other neighborhoods). Debating the necessity of this business is one thing, just like the need for a place that sells $100 5 year old t shirts, or has $400 spa treatments, but this is tribeca where these things exist. But these people aren't the villains. — nyc on Cocoon has opened in the Best Market Space

You speak the truth. Our kids grew up here just fine without this. You are right, why do we need kids coming from all over to play here. It should have been used for something useful but that wouldn't be attractive to the big $$$$$ that moves in. Such a shame. — LongTimeResident on Cocoon has opened in the Best Market Space

Exactly! — LongTimeResident on Cocoon has opened in the Best Market Space

Whose bright idea was this? What a moronic thing to open during the height of a pandemic. They are probably paying top dollar for rent and asking an astronomical monthly feee to become a "member" of this glorified play space. Us true New Yorker know better to waste money on this crap when you have Washington Market Park & Battery Park right in your backyard. I grew up just fine playing in the plaza and running laps around the park. What many tenants need is a god damn grocery store. I visit my parent weekly to bring them groceries from NJ because they can't get anything nearby. Many IPN tenants are elderly and have been there for many years and watched many of us grow up. Such a shame. IPN was the true defination of a neighborhood, not no more. No one cares and it's a damn shame. They destroyed New York especially IPN (Tribeca). Rant over. — John Doe on Cocoon has opened in the Best Market Space

This is totally ridiculous and very disturbing but consistent with the Owner's lack of consideration for the residents of IPN. Yeah, we need a play space? OMG. We don't have a supermarket, we are trying to get out of pandemic and this is what we need? Also, I don't know who designed the outside, but it looks like total trash painting the brick white. Whose decision was that? Maybe that's why there are so many empty apartments at IPN. Plus the rate is probably affordable to many of the neighborhood. Did they forget that many of the IPN tenants are voucher tenants and can't afford this? No, Stellar and the Owners are money hungry thieves who could care less about the neighborhood. They were NEVER committed to us. — LongTimeResident on Cocoon has opened in the Best Market Space

"Had just a beat cop or two been there maybe the murder wouldn’t have happened." yes we just need a beat cop on every subway platform and every street corner and in every store and probably in every subway car too while were at it, then there will be no crime ever. "Spare me technology cuz if so ok no common widespread internet or cellphones 1990-94 so Dinkins gets a pass." if you read that to yourself, does that make any sense? you said statistics dont lie, so you should look at the chart on violent crime in america. every graph has a steady decline over the past 20 years, just like nyc. you can give deblasio credit if that makes you feel better, but surveillance absolutely is the reason for these declines in crime. — nyc on It shouldn’t be long now.