No, you are not right. You are wrong. - A guy — mervis on In the News: Chief women are chief entrepreneurs

First step at Warren St is to finish the foundation this fall/winter and thereby stabilize the neighbor. Then they can start removing the rakers. Code requires a 3 inch "seismic gap" between the buildings so that an earthquake does not create a domino effect. The new building will not support the existing building once the new foundation is in, not without a variance from Building Code. — James on In the News: Fighting to keep the Rector Street bridge

I fully support the Robert Schneck's efforts to keep the Rector St Bridge - there needs to be a passage way for that part of Battery Park City as well - what is the downside for keeping both passage ways open? — TY on In the News: Fighting to keep the Rector Street bridge

Yes, thanks. It's a 99-year lease, so I should have synced those two points. — Tribeca Citizen on Details revealed for Disney’s headquarters

Trinity never sells so Disney didn't buy the land...they have a 99 year ground lease. Small distinction but important. — Makes You Go "Hmm-m-m" on Details revealed for Disney’s headquarters

Workers are putting the scaffolding on outside the Cast Iron House on Broadway and Franklin this week. They took them down a month ago! — TribecaMom on Seen & Heard: Battery Dance Festival starts Sunday

The only way to stop young people from dying is put them one year in jail and then probation 5 years they are very scared to go back there — lasevski on Argo Electronics Has Closed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/amazon-whole-foods-is-two-years-old-and/2019/06/13/0e3b83ba-8ddc-11e9-b6f4-033356502dce_story.html — Ruben Robles on Seen & Heard: Fire (not serious) at Whole Foods

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardkestenbaum/2018/12/16/amazon-whole-foods-supermarkets-grocery-massive-change/#4acbcbf169cc — Ruben Robles on Seen & Heard: Fire (not serious) at Whole Foods

Currently being sold at A Uno Tribeca. — DeeDee on Giorgia Is Closing

I spoke with the guy supervising the installation of this sidewalk shed, he told me because the sidewalk is so narrow in the alley (on the right side) -- they had to erect this extra wide structure (for facade work on the building on Jay on the West side of the street.) — AndyR on Seen & Heard: Fire (not serious) at Whole Foods

I was in WF (Whole Foods) right near that burger counter when the "fire" started. Grease was basically basically raining down from the top ventilation system. There was absolutely no one attending to the burger counter. All workers at WF just stood watching with no idea what to do. It was very strange as the sushi counter men were just trying to get their fish away from the area. Every time I go to WF now I feel the same depression and then anger because they don't seem to have any sort of management in place. They are not stocked well with any normal items. Workers are the least helpful and have no idea where things have been moved from the previous week. It is the only option in the neighborhood when there is no time to get to Trader Joe's on Spring. — JC on Seen & Heard: Fire (not serious) at Whole Foods

They are setting themselves up as a non-profit now, and will create a GoFundMe page. Stay tuned. — Tribeca Citizen on In the News: Banker adds money to Chinatown jail fight

How can we donate to Neighbors United Below Canal? — Christina on In the News: Banker adds money to Chinatown jail fight

James got it. Though the actual title is "Alice in Wall Street Land," oddly. — Pam Frederick on Where in Tribeca?

"CityArts 'Alice in Wonderland' mural" — James on Where in Tribeca?

Wall/ledge of playground on Chambers St near BMCC, North side of street between West and Greenwich Streets. — James on Where in Tribeca?

Gerardo Blumenkrantz is a genius -- which makes Ned a genius for partnering with him. And the food!!! — Nancy R. Tag on Valentine No. 66

I've asked; awaiting reply. — Pam Frederick on In the News: Banker adds money to Chinatown jail fight

Very sad to see such a great store go. Spent a lot of time and money there. And always delighted with the purchases. Staff was great. Bummer they left. Wish they’d at least get a store in Brooklyn. — John ebeling on Schoolhouse Electric has closed permanently

Over. Only for July. — Pam Frederick on Crowd Sourcing: Free workouts for August

Does anyone know what's going on on the roof of BMCC? My apt. faces the river & this morning with the windows shut & the AC running I was awakened at 9AM by what sounded like a cement mixer at the foot of my bed. — V. Stewart on In the News: Banker adds money to Chinatown jail fight

I love this debate from all sides. One of the grand reasons NYC, and Greenwich Village became the amazing place it was in the 50s is because for the most part, it was abandoned. This repeated in the LES in the early 80s. And Williamsburg and so on and so forth. Culture, it seems, grows in the weeds. And this city _was_ CRAZY with culture. Guilliani sterilized it, and turned the place into a strip mall. The landlords pillaged and gauged the hell out of. And Bloomberg and his Real Estate Czar filled in every inch with more mall stores. None of these people understood an ounce of what dragged most people here in the first place. What they didn't realize is that malls are dead. So they keep shoving more mall stores in the city, and the culture suffocates. But now, things have changed. People work remotely. People want to get out of the hell that is the subway and would rather eat rocks than come in on the weekend. The connected world doesn't need or use real estate the same way. Work days have gotten way longer, and people just want to get the hell out of the city, hide under their bed, and order in.. Soon 5G will arrive, and again it will change everything. If you can work on a mountain in Colorado, with full high resolution Skype calls, why would you show up at an office, let alone go into the city. It's over. Done. Gone. On top of this, most apartment that are going up now are money laundering schemes for the Chinese and Russians and Saudis to get their money out of their country. Tens of thousands of these apartments are empty, and will stay empty. And they are way over priced, but getting any money out even at a loss, isn't an issue for them. This is why all the shops and restaurants that go up fail so quickly. These merchants don't understand how things have changed. If you think Hudson Yards has anything to do with you, you are wrong. It's a pricey Bodega for these people to pick up stuff when they visit once a year. The whole world has changed. New York is just too stubborn, refuses to see it, and well like our subway, is just living in the proverbial stone ages. — Fred on Ghost Town: The 2018 Retail-Vacancy Report

And another ode to Arcade Bakery https://ny.eater.com/2019/8/1/20750121/arcade-bakery-closing-tribeca-farewell — A on In the News: Banker adds money to Chinatown jail fight

Last fall, Schoolhouse opened a spectacular location in Pittsburgh: https://www.schoolhouse.com/blogs/stories/the-next-chapter-schoolhouse-pittsburgh — Karen on Schoolhouse Electric has closed permanently