OMNY inherits a lot of the capabilities of the Suica/PASMO system in Japan... once registered on your phone, you can tap/go. OMNY superior in a number of ways, most significantly that you can use your phone/watch and use the default credit card in your digital wallet to pay as well. On the iPhones, if registered as an Express Transit pass, you can use tap in without unlocking your phone or watch. Too bad the rest of the subway system is crap. Eliminating the Metrocard is a good thing and makes it super convenient to enter the bowels of hell. — alee on In the News: Clock Tower building now being occupied

"the chef says they are just waiting for gas and liquor licenses to come through" These are the kinds of things that the City and the State (and Con Edison) would expedite if they really cared about vacant retail stores. Make it less impossible to start and run a restaurant or retail business, and there will be fewer vacancies. — James on Seen & Heard: Slow death for Dean & DeLuca?

I live around the corner and was excited to check this place out. Alas, the only vegetarian option is cactus. I have no problem with cactus unto itself, but it's not a protein - it doesn't make much sense to replace barbecued meat with a green vegetable and pretend that's a logical substitution. I'd have been willing to give it a chance anyway, but there was a line out the door, so it'll have to wait for another time. I do wonder, though, whether - if the chef were a vegetarian - he'd put a little more thought into incorporating vegan meat substitutes, like a spicy vegan sausage or some sort of marinated barbecue vegan product, into his recipes. Cactus feels like an afterthought, a way of saying, sure, there's something vegetarian, but you probably won't like it and no one's really ordering it, so why don't you just kill an animal and devour its roasted flesh with the rest of us and to heck with the fate of the planet? And frankly, I hate that attitude and I'm fed up with it. — Will Meyerhofer on Los Tacos No. 1 is open

My teenage son reports it is the same guys, same pizza, same bat channel. — Tribeca Citizen on Seen & Heard: Pizzeria Name Change

Noooo! Dona Bella was my favorite go to Pizza spot! I was lucky to try it before I moved to WA. I will miss it, I really hope Little Italy pizza is just as good. — Jonathan L on Seen & Heard: Pizzeria Name Change

And San Francisco was closed a few years ago ???????? God I miss that lovely space, let alone NY closing ????❤️ Where to go now Eric Benn?? Xoxox, Amber former SF Employee ❤️ — Amber on The Bubble Lounge Is About to Pop Its Last Cork

Where I live I very unfortunately see the mobile billboard boat daily. The current state is that it now sticks to the west/Hudson river side and turns around at the end of Manhattan to loop back west. It remains awful and annoying. I am assuming this is a legal strategy so they can say they are legal in the state of Jersey as it is a shared waterway. It is definitely not gone yet. — KS on In the News: Cuomo goes after floating billboards

My first time to a Los Tacos No. 1 location. The spot was pretty crowded but the line moved quickly. Not a place to linger during lunch hour. Food was fresh and extremely tasty. I will def be back. — Ruben Robles on Los Tacos No. 1 is open

I am very excited by this news. I eat at the Times Square outpost often. Can’t believe they finally opened in our neighborhood! — Megco on Los Tacos No. 1 is open

I always think photos (or at least *my* photos) never do the food justice, but I will add a couple in for you... — Tribeca Citizen on New(ish) Kid on the Block: Sola Lab

How about some pictures of the food? — Anonymous on New(ish) Kid on the Block: Sola Lab

Congratulations Robert, You did it again! You are correct it is between Greenwich and Washington Street. I am sure that Pam will add the location photograph soon, with regards, Sonia Stock — Sonia Stock on Where in Tribeca?

I think it is on Desbrosses, between Greenwich & Washington Streets...next to a garage door. — Robert Ripps on Where in Tribeca?

Why don't celebrities solve all our problems (aka eyesores)? So selfish of them not to gentrify this neighborhood and all of its public spaces. What happened to all of those "Native Tribecans" that thought Tribeca was so much better when it wasn't so much better??!! Note - Donations to the Friends of Finn Square's Ponzi scheme are tax deductible for all Tribecans (aka Tribecant's) not just rich celebrities. Who are the Friends of Finn Square? Asking for an IRS friend. — Jim Smithers on Friends of Finn Square: Making the most of 1/10th of an acre

Dear Jean Grillo, Re: "I totally support any aid we can give our homeless." That statement takes a lot of courage (aka balls). Unfortunately, I think the aid (aka taxpayer money) is better spent sending probes to Mars. We're never going to clean up or take responsibility for this planet and its so-called man-made problems, so we need to find the next place we can neglect. Thus we should be sending probes to Jupiter and Saturn. We're almost done with Earth and then Mars won't last forever. Earth is like a hotel room we trashed and now we just need to be moved to a fresh room. NYC is THE or one of the most expensive places to live and it's NOT just the rent prices - Mom & Pop's price gouge vs. Amazon, etc. TAXES? Parking garages? Parking? Need I go on? No, I don't. DeBlasio and his presidential campaign is just another example of public service delusion. #PSD. It shouldn't take so much time to do the right thing. But it does. Co-op Boards prove this on a monthly basis. — Jim Smithers on In the News: Fidi’s residential struggle

The new Momofuku Bay Wayo is fabulous! As of now it's just the bar, but the food is great - the curry donut is a must, and the hamburg dip and imitation crab roll somehow harkened childhood, in the best way possible. It's a beautiful space and the upstairs restaurant is slated to open in October/November — Lauren McPhate on Seen & Heard: Love at 3 World Trade

please provide info on who to contact to support this system implementation — greg on Washington Market Park tennis court sign-up may go online

Tory? — James on In the News: Arrest made in Fulton bomb scare

Wonderful photos, thanks for sharing. Sorry I missed this! — Judith on Battery Dance celebrates Indian Independence Day

Dear TG: Re: FiDi housing “Oversupply”I totally support any aid we can give our homeless. And I also hope all this massive rush to create super towers (many growing vacant) might also lead to more reasonable rents for our middle class families and friends who are fleeing the city in droves priced out by exorbitant rents. — Jean Grillo on In the News: Fidi’s residential struggle

Are we kidding with the earth shattering news of the Tory Burch store opening? I know we all want store fronts to be filled but I dunno...who cares about the TB store opening. — TG on In the News: Arrest made in Fulton bomb scare

It isn't as though we didn't know there was/is massive overbuilding on our little island...FiDi is just the beginning. Time to really work on homelessness. — TG on In the News: Fidi’s residential struggle

So true!! I remember the old days when our small donations kept Greenwich Street nice, neat and tidy with well cared for planters... — TG on Friends of Finn Square: Making the most of 1/10th of an acre

Good news with a push getting rid of those very aggressive and scary ticket vendors, no more floating advertisements and having the wonderful Aisling Franciosi in the neighborhood - welcome! — TG on In the News: Cuomo goes after floating billboards

Since all this talk about the squirrels being aggressive and attacking people, I've noticed that in the past week or so, the squirrels have disappeared from City Hall Park. There used to be hundreds of them, now I don't even see one. Anyone know what happened? — Martine Kerveadou on Squirrels on the attack in Rockefeller Park