The new area dedicated at the 9/11 Memorial will be dedicated on 05/30/19 to coincide with the anniversary of the last beam being removed aka the completion of cleanup. — Anthony on In the News: Is Park Place the next Park Avenue?

What about Park Row? Any idea what retail is going in? — tribbycitizen on In the News: Is Park Place the next Park Avenue?

Same. — MME on In the News: VOTE today

Jeff and James are absolutely right. But I still voted. — Heide Fasnacht on In the News: VOTE today

since I have Citizen App I totally agree. Plus I know a couple of people that work in the court system. Both say Crime is way up!!! Which it is! Our neighborhood isn't patrolled at all! The mayor is a waste. Store fronts are out of business making it dark at night. We are slowly heading back to that nightmare time in the city. The city isn't safe. Train Crime way up! Very sad. — NATIVE on My personal police blotter

James nails it. The city government needs to contract... rather than be in a constant state of expansion & empire building by politicians. This place is run so inefficiently & so much money is wasted in bureaucracy... it boggles the mind. — Jeff on In the News: VOTE today

This position is a giant waste of your tax money, with a costly election today, and per the City Charter, it will be followed by more elections--a primary and a November general election--later this year. From the NY Post (1/2/19): "It will cost the city as much as $23 million to conduct the Feb. 26 special election for public advocate — an office with an annual budget of $3.5 million. [...] "The Board of Elections put the cost of running the contest at $15 million. "And with such an enormous field of candidates, CFB has set aside up to $8 million to dole out in public matching funds. [...] " 'My thought about the Public Advocate’s Office is it’s not worth thinking about,' said City Councilman Ritchie Torres, who’s sponsoring a bill to do away with it. " 'We are spending millions in taxpayer funds in pursuit of powerlessness. Taxpayers should be subsidizing something more substantial than a glory pulpit,' he added. [...] "The position is highly sought because it has few duties and is a time-tested perch for political advancement. "The public advocate before [now-state Attorney General Letitia] James was Bill de Blasio." — James on In the News: VOTE today

I am both a renter and an owner. i'm off to vote and at the last minute learning about who has taken big money from big real estate developers. After many hours fighting oversized buildings in Tribeca and seeing the loss of small businesses I feel this is a priority that also goes to affordable housing. The candidates who took no money from big real estate are: Williams, Eisenbach and O'Donnell. Anyone else care to share what they have learned? — Heide Fasnacht on In the News: VOTE today

I love what you have done with TC! — Jmc on Two-fam house planned on Harrison

Eek...we park on the street, too. That's awful. I guess we read on our phones on the subway, too. I hate that loss of faith in humanity feeling after people treat other people so badly like that. — Will Meyerhofer on My personal police blotter

Thankfully you were not injured, but this experience no doubt will haunt you. Reading this publication, or others in our neighborhood that carry "police blotters", criminals are more brazen now than in recent memory as they simply no longer fear apprehension. They read about fare evasion, public urinating, marijuana use, and other quality of life crimes being decriminalized and feel anything goes. Former Police Commissioner Bratton wanted that position in the worst way and embarrassed himself by repeatedly praised Mayor DeBlasio as a great Mayor. Now retired, he turns around and calls recent decriminalization as the beginning of the "bad old days" before the Giuliani administration. I guess he no longer fears for his job and is more candid. Unless voters elect a no nonsense tough on crime Mayor this City is doomed..just read George Santayana. — John on My personal police blotter

Renderings from last summer are up too https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/market-insight/features/future-nyc/457-washington-street-single-family-mansion-overhaul-120-year-old-tribeca-building/18421 — Jen on The news from up north: 142 Watts Street

Or: How about a "Fry My iPhone" option? There's already a "Find My iPhone" option which lets you locate an iPhone, using any other device and logging into Apple's iCloud. You can then make the phone emit a test tone so you can find it in your laundry machine. So, why not add an additional feature, that "bricks" the phone permanently? "Fry My iPhone" would fry the circuitry and make it unusable. Seems like that would deter thieves. Then again, you might foolishly use "Fry My iPhone" when you thought the phone was stolen, and later find it smoking in the pile of laundry.... — Marcus on My personal police blotter

While phone snatching is rare in America, it is common in other countries. I just sent an email to Tim Cook of Apple suggesting that they either build in something you could secure a cable to or develop a case with a solid metal ring which would serve the same purpose. At $1,000 for a phone, this is an increasing concern. Perhaps you should email Cook too. — A. on My personal police blotter

Or not... — Pam Frederick on Where in Tribeca?

Well done. How *do* you do it?? — Pam Frederick on Where in Tribeca?

if you download and start using the Citizen app, you will not believe de Blasio's nonsense about how safe he's made the city. And btw murders up 55% esp. in brooklyn. https://nypost.com/2019/02/20/city-murders-up-55-percent-from-last-year-amid-surge-in-northern-brooklyn/ — irma zandl on My personal police blotter

Well I just learned something new today! I'll have to be more careful with my pineapples. — Christy Frank on Where in Tribeca?

There should be no placard parking for privately owned vehicles in my opinion. If you drive a City vehicle with City plates for the purpose of doing a City job, at best you should get placard parking for an hour or 2 at most in any one location, in order to cut down on the use by commuters who park their vehicle for 8 hours per day. All City-owned fleet vehicles are or should be monitored by GPS anyway. In the alternative, any city employees who get parking privileges by placard or in a City-owned or leased garage or lot should have the value of the parking added to their taxable income (possibly in place of money received as part of their paycheck) and city, state, and federal income tax should be withheld on that non-cash compensation. Their vehicles could be monitored by GPS as well if they choose to participate in a placard program. This is an issue of municipal and police corruption as bad or worse as the Parking Violations Bureau scandals of the 1980s in my opinion, and the Mayor will only pay it lip service. — James on City will phase out parking placards starting now

Hello, this is located on the corner of Franklin street and Broadway actual address is 64 Franklin Street, with regards, Sonia — Sonia Stock on Where in Tribeca?

Yikes! Sorry to hear. But good that no one was hurt. — Robert Ripps on My personal police blotter

I don't think there's more than one window shown in this entire batch of photos. Does this apartment get any light? Does it have any windows? That would be my first concern. The space is great...but you know lofts, sometimes it's all space with no light. — Will Meyerhofer on Loft Peeping: Mantiques at the Grabler Building

"Fake" placards, including UFA, PBA, and court-officer union-issued placards, are the biggest problem in my opinion. These are used with impunity by mere commuters around firehouses, police stations, and the courts since no traffic enforcement officer will do anything about them. This latest "solution" is just window dressing, or in this case, windshield dressing. — James on City will phase out parking placards starting now

I totally agree. Once the stores close on Greenwich across from the darkness of the old Best Market we are in trouble. The First Precent does not patrol the area well. Muggers paradise. Its so sad. — Native on In the News: Man stabbed on Greenwich and Reade

Not in any way defending the plan, just adding: they think the problem is abuse (ie, placard holders using them when not on official business) not the number of placards overall, though they would not say how many fake placards they had collected so far. They also *say* they will find space in garages for cops, depending on the need of each precinct. This administration has added more placards than any other, they admitted, but BdB said that was due to the contract negotiations with the teachers union and handicap placards (?). I don't think the teachers are our problem down here, though I could be wrong on that. — Pam Frederick on City will phase out parking placards starting now