I used to like reading Tribeca Citizen because I live here but after you, Pam, bought the website from Erik, the quality dropped significantly. Despite all your experience, he was a much more skilled writer who didn’t care about being silly and to whom the neighborhood’s colorful fabric, the quirks, the small things all mattered: not just the real estate value attached to it. And he also seemed to be a nicer person because since you became the owner, it has gotten so infuriating to read. Steeped in privilege and drained of all the fun, Tribeca Citizen is truly a rag for the rich now. Just look at the comments you garner. And it’s especially upsetting to see the intensely coddled white straight woman vibes come through as you carefully instruct everyone on getting rid of the homeless population that is obviously growing as people lose homes and livelihoods. Anyone who lives in this ivory tower enclave and can walk past an unhoused person thinking not “poor love, how can I help, what can I donate and what housing bill should I ask my representative to support?” but “oh, how do I get them out of my neighborhood as quick as possible!” is a cruel person, but running a media that encourages this kind of attitude is just staggeringly heartless. And dang, I actually remember Erik helping some folk do a fundraiser to help an unhoused man. Where did all of that go? COVID-19 is tragic but affluenza is the real disease. — Katya Kazbek on A homeless encampment on Franklin and frustrated neighbors

I do. More TK. — Tribeca Citizen on Construction Update: What is essential and what is not?

Also outside at Brookfield: PJ Clarke's and Del Frisco's Grille. (Surprised they didn't mention it to you....) — Jonathon Pepper on The latest openings around the neighborhood

Will these lead to fewer parking spaces in the neighborhood and therefore higher fees? — MS on N. Moore parking garage will be converted to offices

Office space? Interesting choice in this new WFH world. Good luck to them! — K on N. Moore parking garage will be converted to offices

Thank god someone is willing to invest in Tribeca still. — jd on N. Moore parking garage will be converted to offices

Construction at 86 Warren has been halted for a week now. No workers on site at all. Does anyone know what is going on? Thanks. — Don N. on Construction Update: What is essential and what is not?

Yes, I believe you are right. — Tribeca Citizen on Seen & Heard: Holy Ground taking to-go to new level

PS 234 — Tribeca Citizen on Watching out for speeders on Greenwich

I looked in the window the other day, and if they are going to open they have a lot of work to do. — GC on Sarabeth’s poised to open in Tribeca?

For what it’s worth, it sure looked like Holy Ground packed up and moved out late last week. I didn’t actually get a good look at them clearing out, so it could have been just A Summer Day Cafe emptying (and we already knew they had closed permanently I think), but I thought I recognized some of the stuff being loaded into trucks as coming from downstairs. — Mg on Seen & Heard: Holy Ground taking to-go to new level

BMCC of cocurse; the PS is the one that evaporated, thanks to Vornado -- — George Bacon on Watching out for speeders on Greenwich

Maybe I missed something here, but what school? — George Bacon on Watching out for speeders on Greenwich

Yes, that was my point. That the plaza is meant to serve the many people who work and go to school in the neighborhood, not just residents, and that fact is in the plus column. Also, this in my opinion was making lemonade out of lemons; DOT intended to close that section of Hudson and the plaza makes it into a neighborhood resource rather than just a closed street. And it also makes much better use of the original Bogardus Triangle, which did not provide any shared open space. — Tribeca Citizen on Seen & Heard: Progress at Bogardus Plaza

I would suspect that DDG is trying to walk back their commitment re the plaza. — JWM on Progress at 100 Franklin reveals art in bricks

really great. especially the corner arched entrance, — josh on Progress at 100 Franklin reveals art in bricks

They should put them on Church Street around Reade/Thomas too. Tons of people speed and run the red lights on that section. — person on Watching out for speeders on Greenwich

Righto! Well done, Sonia. Will update the post soon with some fun details... — Tribeca Citizen on Where in Tribeca?

Where did you find this fact? If DOT surveyed people in and around the plaza and they were not from Tribeca, then could they represent the large number of students who commute through there? or the workers who pass through? And what is the evidence that CB1 had no oversight? Wasn't the project was presented to the community board's committees and approved by CB1? Wasn't there a traffic study that showed the dangerous nature of that corner to from Chambers onto Hudson? I thought I understood how this project came about but maybe not. — KPDNYC on Seen & Heard: Progress at Bogardus Plaza

CB1 has tried and failed for years, apparently. Patch.com, June 2019: "Lower Manhattan CB Wants Updates On A Promised Plaza In Tribeca" A developer filed an application to DOT in 2014 to make this space into a public plaza. Now, CB 1 wants to know what happened to the plans. By Sydney Pereira, Patch Staff Patch Staff Badge Jun 4, 2019 2:16 pm ET | Updated Jun 4, 2019 2:38 pm ET "[...] But since then, Community Board 1 says the developer has not provided any updates at board meetings — irking Lower Manhattanites. " 'The community [board] has made countless efforts,' Paul Goldstein, the chair of CB 1's parks committee, said at the May 28 CB 1 meeting. 'We've had very little success.' "CB 1 has been asking DDG for more than a year to update the neighborhood on the plaza upgrades, the board wrote in a resolution passed May 28. "But, 'DDG has not been willing to attend any meeting thus far and we remain in the dark as to their plans" for the plaza, the board wrote in the resolution.' [...] "A spokeswoman for DDG said by email, 'We were in touch with Community Board 1 a few months ago to let them know that our current focus is on completing construction of these two complex buildings, which are steadily progressing towards completion.' DDG did not answer questions on the plans for a public plaza. "A Department of Transportation spokeswoman confirmed DDG applied to the department's plaza program in 2014 and was accepted under the developer's commitment to fund and maintain the plaza. "DOT is waiting to move ahead, pending the project's funding, the DOT spokeswoman said. [...]" https://patch.com/new-york/downtown-nyc/lower-manhattan-cb-wants-updates-promised-plaza-tribeca — James on Progress at 100 Franklin reveals art in bricks

Well I've seen it all now. 1:15 this afternoon at the corner of Broadway and Reade...a fairly well-dressed woman half squats at the corner and takes a piss with a half-dozen cops on the opposite corner who watch and do nothing. We're well on our way to competing with third-world cities for declining quality of life. — Makes You Go "Hmm-m-m" on City Hall Park is cleared out and cleaned up

This is located in front of 335 Greenwich Street the old bank, regards, Sonia — SONIA STOCK on Where in Tribeca?

Man a bunch of depressed losers commenting onTribeca Citizen today The reCaptcha verify technology is unbearable. Will never comment again. — Ron on Progress at 100 Franklin reveals art in bricks

I've tried, but will try again. It is on my list. — Tribeca Citizen on Progress at 100 Franklin reveals art in bricks

Actually the only reason this project was approved by DOT is because when they surveyed the area, 78 percent of people were NOT from Tribeca. — Tribeca Citizen on Seen & Heard: Progress at Bogardus Plaza