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  • How 'bout lazy a ss First Precinct crack down on these people pissing in the street? Crime is so low in their sectors there is no excuse for them not to ticket these idiots and the club. As for the club, shut up. First off it's on Broadway which is a major thoroughfare. It is not a truly residential area. Ohhhh those poor people who decided to live on Broadway or just off it, well what did you expect? Where are people supposed to go to have a good time out, the outerboroughs? Lower Manhattan (to me below Houston Street) is dead for nightlife and it's nice to see a club open for a change. Yes, the club could and should regulate their crowd but they should not have to be put out of business by a bunch of NIMBYs like you. You drove out a perfectly solid live music/performance space in Knitting Factory which yes had incidents but not so many it had to close. You want quiet, solitude, etc? Move to Bedford, NY. You can drive or take Metro North to and from work like Edward and Connie Sumner in Unfaithful. — here's an idea on Neighbors gearing up to fight booze at Blood Manor

  • You give DeBlasio way too much credit. This guy has no class. We do not want him or his corrupt whole wheat hands touching any of our good food, including Zucker's. I hear that he eats bagels with a fork. — Wendy on In the News: Pick-A-Bagel politics

  • Forget about the useless 311 process. We need to get people in this neighborhood out to protest at the CB1 meeting. Also, we will be out in full force the next time they throw an event. If we see punks pissing on people's property or causing problems, we will take matters into our own hands. And, yes, there are 5 of us men that are really big and not afraid to rough up a bunch of punk kids that cause problems for ur neighbors. — Sandy on Neighbors gearing up to fight booze at Blood Manor

  • As of yesterday afternoon around 3pm (2/3), it seems that Holy Ground is doing a nightly pop-up here. I think it’s also an apres ski themed situation to it. Wonder how long it will hold and what their arrangements are with Summer Day. — Gigi on A Summer Day Cafe closed?

  • Very excited for this opening! I absolutely love Tamarind but feel its gone downhill slightly. Maybe this will be the new go-to Indian restaurant in tribeca. — M on UPDATEx2: Paisley will open this Thursday with Tamarind’s executive chef

  • 311 complaints to DoB are pretty effective if DoB issues notices of violations — James on Neighbors gearing up to fight booze at Blood Manor

  • 311 complains are only effective if you forward your SRN # to CB1 Staff2@cb.nyc.gov and lureynolds@cb.nyc.gov CB1 will then bring that up at the licensing committee, and share them with SLA to prove dissent of the immediate community. Already, the visuals collected by the neighbors are powerful statements. Important for your immediate community to attend 2/12 meeting. — neighbor on Neighbors gearing up to fight booze at Blood Manor

  • Why has no one called 311 to complain to Department of Buildings about occupancy without a valid certificate of occupancy and occupancy in excess of 74 persons without a valid place of assembly permit? FDNY on Duane Street should also be made aware. DoB just released "Buildings Bulletin 2019-008" regarding escape rooms, which is a similar kind of special amusement. "This bulletin clarifies zoning and construction code requirements for escape room establishments in buildings or portions thereof." It's not clear if this kind and size of amusement use conforms to zoning rules. You would think DoB would care about something like this running illegally down the block from DoB headquarters. See https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/bldgs_bulletins/bb_2019-008.pdf — James on Neighbors gearing up to fight booze at Blood Manor

  • Anyone reading this can help - I just signed a petition that they will send to the community board manager before the board meeting. http://chng.it/QGdgKNc8Bv — Renee on Neighbors gearing up to fight booze at Blood Manor

  • DJ is right: only the Tribeca location is closing. I misread the email. — Tribeca Citizen on Tetsu will close on Friday

  • Ah! I just took it straight from her email and thought she meant both. I will double check. — Tribeca Citizen on Tetsu will close on Friday

  • With you in spirit, but this specific set of goals sounds like nothing more than the musings of an influencer/marketer with ADHD, limned with velvet ropiness. We can do better. — David G Imber on Italian market coming to Broadway and Canal…finally?

  • Just to clarify, I don't think the restaurant Masa at Columbus Circle is closing - just Tetsu and Masa's Raw Bar (which is part of Testu). — DJ on Tetsu will close on Friday

  • okay, but whenever I hear the word artisanal think it is arti$anal — George Bacon on Italian market coming to Broadway and Canal…finally?

  • I really hope that this project comes to fruition. Having said that, the following tidbit from 2015 isn't very encouraging: October 22, 2015 Michael Spalding is planning Mercato Fabrica (meaning, “a market where things are made”) at the Charles St. spot. He was able to wrangle a two-year lease for it, while the property owner originally wanted to limit it to only one year and possibly put a vendors’ cart depot there, Bliss said. Ultimately, the 5,000-square-foot site is reportedly earmarked for development. Spalding, who Bliss said, “knows everybody in the food business,” is planning to create an artisanal Italian-inspired food market, and also plans to grow food on the place’s roof. It sounds a bit like a mini-Eataly. In addition, a small area will be set aside for Bliss to sell his upright-style bikes. Mercato Fabrica won’t be opening till the spring since the space is still be being built out. “He’s got five months of work at least,” Bliss said. https://www.thevillager.com/2015/10/scoopys-week-of-oct-21-2015/ — EG on Italian market coming to Broadway and Canal…finally?

  • I'd certainly travel up there from South Tribeca...with the population growth in the nabe, Whole Foods is inundated all the time, and Eataly mobbed by tourists...it would be nice to have another option! — SusanD on Italian market coming to Broadway and Canal…finally?

  • Hey de Blasio how 'bout ordering bagels from a better bagel place literally down the road from you Zucker's Bagels 146 Chambers Street in TRIBECA? : ) — bagel intervention on In the News: Pick-A-Bagel politics

  • Sad to see. I was going to try them soon. I wonder how the market is for restaurants at this price level in that location. I only knew of them for taking my dog to Water4Dogs which shares that building. I just looked in the other day and trying to match the # of patrons to the price to the rent. I hope the space gets filled soon — Patrick C Valentino on Tetsu will close on Friday

  • you are so right on--they don't need to fix anything--they need to lower the rents so a pizzeria doesn't have to pay $40,000 per month. No grocery, no deli all priced out despite having successful businesses. This storefront is a scam and no one should trust this awful owner and associates — chaia ganson on Action at the IPN storefronts from N. Moore to Duane

  • Tribeca Lover has it, once again! — Tribeca Citizen on Where in Tribeca?

  • Greenwich and Harrison outside independence Plaza — Tribeca Lover on Where in Tribeca?

  • Perhaps you should call this the Gindi’s latest attempt to do something with the space. Century 21 Department Stores owns the building. They own 385 Greenwich aka 71 North Moore, 77 Warren, 190a Duane, 109 -111 W. Broadway, the old Bouley and Bouley Bakery at 120 and 130 West Broadway. They owned 287 Broadway where Abramcyk was evacuated at Pizza Cafe, two weeks before they started a fire at Smith & Mills, where our lofts since 1982 were illegally vacated. The owners are vertical in all these buildings. They are one of the biggest nightclub operators in this the city. They are the money behind Tenjune. They owned The Oak Room at The Plaza, Abe & Arthur, SL. — TheNeighbor on A Summer Day Cafe closed?

  • I think they changed the time? Their website says 11 to 1, though their notice to me said 11 to 2. — Tribeca Citizen on Seen & Heard: Will the cookie see its shadow?

  • Is the Duane Park groundhog celebration 11-1, or 11-2 as stated in your earlier article please. https://tribecacitizen.wpengine.com/2020/01/28/seen-heard-groundhog-day-at-duane-park/ — Punx Phil on Seen & Heard: Will the cookie see its shadow?

  • All of you haters and naysayers say what you want. Anything that preserves that beautiful building, hopefully reduces the throngs of illegal sellers of counterfeit goods out front, and upgrades the retail in our area which has been dominated by “Jean’s unlimited” and their brethren is ok by me. You can call it bourgeois, gentrification etc. How many of you shop at those discount stores along Broadway that have going out of business sales every other month. C’mon. It might struggle to survive but I am rooting for them. — TheBlackSquirrel on Italian market coming to Broadway and Canal…finally?