Jack Jangana is a real estate investor ... — Meg on “It feels like being at Burning Man in your living room.”

This metal flower and many more adorn the beautiful large doors of Century 21 at 22 Cortlandt Street sad to see it closing! regards, Sonia Stock — SONIA STOCK on Where in Tribeca?

I hate to see the house win on this one and its been several weeks! And not surprising that this was not found because it is located in the middle of a crosswalk in a small gap egress of the Holland Tunnel between Ericsson Place and Hudson Street where most people on crossing would be looking at the oncoming traffic and not the road beneath their feet. regards, Sonia Stock — SONIA STOCK on Where in Tribeca?

It does not seem like there are more then 50 people, all on a outdoor space. Not really a rave, just a outdoor bbq. Which is legal. — TribeceMike on “It feels like being at Burning Man in your living room.”

Is that the federal courthouse in Foley Square? — Robert Ripps on Where in Tribeca?

Green spaces are important. But in addition, the Warren Street walkway is how I get to the subway to go to work. And the narrow pedestrian space on Chambers is unsafe. It is too narrow for social distancing and I have seen a number of people trip and nearly fall on the legs of the barricades. — JG on Another occupation going on at City Hall Park

Nice to see a piece on RAE. Great hardworking nyc artist Lots of stickers in the neighborhood so keep your eyes open. — Raybee Kay on Art in Tribeca: RAE BK on Staple Street

This chain isn't getting my business when many independent restaurants have been open throughout the pandemic (hello Gigino's Trattoria) and way before fairweather Sarabeth's decided to come back (hello L'Angolo next door to Gigino's.) Besides their food is overpriced mediocrity. — No thanks on Sarabeth’s is reopening next weekend

lets not get caught up on semantics.. loud music til 9 am is typically associated with a rave. ok so these people weren't all decked out in "kandi" and glowsticks, who fucking cares what it is technically called when its going on at 4 am outside your buidling... im sure there was some crossover at early morning hours anyway regardless what they looked like, surely there was plenty of molly and crappy edm of some sort — semantics on “It feels like being at Burning Man in your living room.”

I live across the street and have not be able to sleep on these party nights. Cops, fire trucks, party noise, etc. Street is also filthy. Not cool, esp during Covid. Cops have basically given up on our city, so has sanitation. It’s appalling. — Neighbor on “It feels like being at Burning Man in your living room.”

You don't wanna think palms were greased, but if fire code/board of health violations weren't at least issued ... Anyway, if you want to stop large gatherings, it's pretty easy: a law dictating that all attendees of a gathering of more than X people will be forced to quarantine at the gathering site, after the event is over, for the following two weeks. (PS Someone's making bank on this, but by these photos, this is not even remotely a "rave") — j frank p on “It feels like being at Burning Man in your living room.”

This illegal nightclub under the guise of a "private loft party" is operating because First Precinct either want to do as little as possible in the safest precinct in NYC or are being bribed by this partythrower to do nothing - I say both. Do not count on the useless, worthless First Precinct and NYPD period to stop this. They are on the take. Bottom line is Governor Cuomo needs to be made aware of this and once he is he will end it. Time for Margaret Chin, Bruan Kavanagh, and Deborah Gluck to get in his ear - I mean what the hell are these three doing to stop the spread? — NYPDo Nothings on “It feels like being at Burning Man in your living room.”

Hi, the name is perfect and if u think it gives you anxiety, you should go see a doctor. And I cant wait to see this place. — Luis on Small workspace/bar proposed for Vestry and Hudson

(Although I wouldn't exactly classify what I see in the photos as a "rave". Looks more like an illicit outdoor bar/lounge...which can of course be just as loud and disruptive to neighbors). — Marcus on “It feels like being at Burning Man in your living room.”

Person who is throwing all those parties is Jackie Jangana who owns multiple units in the building. Shame on you. — Simon on “It feels like being at Burning Man in your living room.”

This is a disgrace. Why are the police not completely shutting this down? Why is the landlord not doing anything about this? Most disturbing: Why do the people involved not care at all for the community? Meanwhile legitimate restaurant businesses are not even allowed to open. Street parties in other neighborhoods get shut down. This sort of inconsistency and hypocrisy makes no sense; it's a mockery of any kind of coherent pandemic policy and enforcement. And it's just plain uncivil and un-neighborly, even in non-pandemic circumstances. — Marcus on “It feels like being at Burning Man in your living room.”

https://regs.health.ny.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/emergency_regulations/Enforcement%20of%20Social%20Distancing%20Measures.pdf — Dee Dee on “It feels like being at Burning Man in your living room.”

I am so sorry. This is from July, but unless things have changed the NYPD can fine each person $1000 for non mask compliance in public space. The party organizers can also be fined for promoting the gathering. I assume that means the owner is the spaces can be fined as well. — Dee Dee on “It feels like being at Burning Man in your living room.”

This is shocking. I feel for these neighbors that such blatant disrespect has been allowed for so long. I’m sorry but the police need to do more than being nice and showing up a few times. There needs to be arrests, fines and preventative measures. As mentioned local restaurants are being put through the ringer with seemingly endless officials always available to offer violations for various ever changing rules, yet this clear nuisance and health risk has been going on for months? Spare me the “if you don’t like parties, move to the burbs” bs, this is unacceptable anywhere. How is this not a bigger story? — Holy moly on “It feels like being at Burning Man in your living room.”

Trial by Zoom. Problem solved. — Tom on Jail proposed for White Street is halted by judge

20% of hotels disappearing feels high. Many Manhattan hotels are built in areas zoned for manufacturing, where hotel is the only legal residential use. Others are built on leased land, meaning no condos permitted generally, usually just rentals and co-ops even in residential zones. BPC and Roosevelt Island are exceptions enshrined specifically by name in the law. There are also recently increasing hurdles to obtain City permission to open new hotels I understand. — James on The return of the hotels — or not

Sadly, Taxi's are hard to come by in TriBeCa. I had to wait 20 minutes to get one the other day. There was nothing on Greenwich and I went over to Hudson. I asked the drives, both going and coming home, if business had picked up. Both said they are lucky to get one fare in a hour. I support taxis - a NYC institution. — JS Miller on Seen & Heard: Local events for climate week

just to clarify, stuy has no plans for in classroom learning at this time. they have a choice of fully remote learning or a blended program where students can sit in the cafeteria or auditorium two days a week with a laptop and connect remotely from there. this was necessitated because 80% of the stuy teachers requested an exemption from classroom teaching. — yossarian on What neighborhood schools will look like this fall

Just looked up the definition of feudalism (it's been awhile). Sadly agree: https://chieforganizer.org/2020/09/23/labor-department-gets-on-its-knees-for-gig-and-other-companies/ — JP on Seen & Heard: Local events for climate week

This is great news. The plan was horrible even before the pandemic, but now with pandemic and budget crisis, this $10 billion (sure to be double that or more, the way government projects go) project is just insane to even consider. Agreed: Reform the jail/prison system and rebuild Rikers; scrap this borough jails expansion plan. This was always a bait-and-switch project: "We want to reform the criminal justice system" does not in any way entail or imply "We have to destroy Rikers and build bigger prisons/jails in your neighborhoods." Indeed, the latter can happen without any improvement of "the system". If the project went through, it might just have been money completely wasted, just moving the problem around to different geographical locations, without any significant improvement of criminal justice system at all. (As for the reduction of the current incarceration population, some of that can be justified where offenses were minor, but is all of it? Is it partly responsible for the increase in crime? I don't know the stats on how the reduction was achieved, and what the criteria for release were) — Marcus on Jail proposed for White Street is halted by judge