Image 14 is 117-119 Mercer Street in Soho. — James on Tribeca Then and Now: The Unknowns (Part 2)

Citizen App shows students injured by escalator malfunction in Stuyvesant HS today. — TribecaMom on Dirty Lemon’s “Drug Store” Has Opened

My understanding is that the original store was located between Duane and Reade Streets. — Larry on Another Duane Reade Has Closed

I don't believe so- I don't remember that street as pictured, plus it looks like the sunlight is hitting it directly, and if it was the south side of Beach, no way it would get direct light. — Robert Ripps on Tribeca Then and Now: The Unknowns (Part 2)

Do you think image 21 could be the Beach St façade of the same building? — James on Tribeca Then and Now: The Unknowns (Part 2)

Historically the area around the Courts and Manhattan Detention Center (via 5 Points) was not an Asian neighborhood. The expansion of Chinatown is relatively new in the area's long and diverse history. — TG on In the News: Residents Argue Against the Jail Plan

Yes, Don Hill's was the setting for Rochameau's fashion week party last Friday night. Such a legendary spot! — Terry on Seen & Heard: Kiddie Academy Opening Forecast

#19 is now part of Fischer Mills, 395/397 Greenwich Street, currently a dry cleaner & 'wichcraft (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7205099,-74.010092,3a,15y,52.05h,88.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjKL_ng8YJimCaLNMdeFlaA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192). Although it is hard to see by Google Street view, I found a few pictures I took of the scene in 1991, but ithey are predigital, so I will have to try to get one scanned at some point to show how it matches- I can see the graffiti in my shot, and it is a perfect match. — Robert Ripps on Tribeca Then and Now: The Unknowns (Part 2)

Mmmmm...in Chinese they call it Cherng Fun (at least in Cantonese) - which means essentially really wide rice noodle. Soooooo good. I hope they make it the Hong Kong way, with sesame sauce - you eat it with a tooth pick. — Will Meyerhofer on In the News: Workaround to Save Birds from “Tribute in Light”

I do not see this as 74 Leonard. The storefront cast iron does not match, especially visibly in the capitals. The shape and configuration of the rectangular columns between and around the round columns does not match. The configuration of the fire escape brackets, water table, and capitals does not match. the second story facade does not match. Further it is in a Landmark District designated in December 1992. No way do they get permission to alter it so drastically from some other style. Lastly I doubt it was ever in any other style that what it is right now. 72-74 Leonard is continuous with its neighbor 76-78. They share the same style of cast iron storefront, which was described in the designation report as the original storefront cast iron. — James on Tribeca Then and Now: The Unknowns (Part 2)

Got a letter in the mail from Walgreens that the Duane Reade on 111 Worth is closing today 9/13 and tell customers to visit the one on 305 Broadway. I haven't visited the 111 Worth to verify the closing. — TribecaMom on Max Is Moving to W. Broadway

Totally possible. They could have restored the columns. The steps seem to be the same. — Denise on Tribeca Then and Now: The Unknowns (Part 2)

The columns don't match. It's possible they were replaced with something totally different, but that would be pretty unusual. — Erik Torkells on Tribeca Then and Now: The Unknowns (Part 2)

Image 14. Believe this is 74 Leonard. The Knitting Factory closed its doors in 2008. In 2009 Julia Roberts filmed a scene from the film 'Eat, Pray, Love' in the Spring of 2009 while the building was still vacant. It was later restored and turned into condos. — Denise on Tribeca Then and Now: The Unknowns (Part 2)

"The further a facility is from populated areas, the worse it is for the inmates, because it makes it much harder for their families to reach them. Maintaining family and community ties during incarceration is critical to inmates futures." - If true, this argument has to be weighed against the concerns and effects on the surrounding community "gaining" such a facility. - Communication with family et al does not always require in-person visits; as with so many business, legal, and personal relationships and communications, telephone and video chat/conference can work very well. - If the insistence is still on easy in-person access to "family and community", then the facility should be placed in the neighborhood of origin for most of its inmates. Is Chinatown/TriBeCa that neighborhood? "That being said, once dysfunction, neglect and violence becomes entrenched in any institution, closing it and starting over with different programs, etc. might be the only option." What is the evidence that this is the only option? Why not restructure the existing facility instead? "Whether it would work is unknown – but something has to change." It's troublesome and potentially disastrous policy to just change "something" without compelling evidence that the "something" will actually improve matters, rather than just maintain the status quo, or actually make matters worse. That's a very expensive experiment, and there are arguments that it will not work: "Investigation chief: Moving Rikers inmates won’t stop jail violence" https://nypost.com/2018/03/26/investigation-chief-moving-rikers-inmates-wont-stop-jail-violence/ "The neighborhood has a well established aversion to anyone with even the slightest involvement with the criminal justice system..." As you said in your first comment, isn't this true of any neighborhood? And isn't it quite a reasonable concern? Furthermore, this neighborhood already has a huge facility for the "criminal justice system". The argument is that this neighborhood has already taken on more than enough of this civic responsibility to host "criminal justice" infrastructure. "Given the percentage of people of color who have criminal justice involvement, one could argue that poor people of color are just seen as a threat." That's pure speculation and would require evidence. One might just as well speculate on a potentially racist motive involved in putting this facility in an Asian community. Either claim would require evidence. Let's not carelessly fan the fires of racial tensions. — Marcus on In the News: Residents Argue Against the Jail Plan

"Given the percentage of people of color who have criminal justice involvement, one could argue that poor people of color are just seen as a threat." That's an unsupported argument. One could argue that massively expanding a facility housing criminals regardless of background is seen as undesirable in a residential neighborhood. The tightly drawn area for the analysis of the environmental impact of the jail is a joke designed to sidestep this fact. Your concern is more about the inmates and their "futures" than the neighborhood and its residents. — James on In the News: Residents Argue Against the Jail Plan

The further a facility is from populated areas, the worse it is for the inmates, because it makes it much harder for their families to reach them. Maintaining family and community ties during incarceration is critical to inmates futures. Most important would be reforming the cash-bail system and ensuring adequate mental health treatment outside jail complexes like Rikers, which are ill-equipped to deal with such problems and serve mostly to incubate and exacerbate them. That being said, once dysfunction, neglect and violence becomes entrenched in any institution, closing it and starting over with different programs, etc. might be the only option. Whether it would work is unknown - but something has to change. The Tombs house’s only male inmates awaiting trial. Rikers Houses males and females. It consists of ten jails, holds local offenders who are awaiting trial and cannot afford, obtain, or are not given bail from a judge; those serving sentences of one year or less; and those temporarily placed there pending transfer to another facility. The neighborhood has a well established aversion to anyone with even the slightest involvement with the criminal justice system, as seen in the Summons Court hysteria a few years ago. Given the percentage of people of color who have criminal justice involvement, one could argue that poor people of color are just seen as a threat. — Thoughtful on In the News: Residents Argue Against the Jail Plan

That's disappointing...I was hoping it would be worthwhile...What was so disappointing about it? — Marcus on In the News: Sea Boutique Opening Here

The destiny thing at 25 Broadway, is such a ripoff not even funny, it’s basically an ad for cipriani. Really 30 minutes you’ll never get back — Gatekeeper on In the News: Sea Boutique Opening Here

I don’t think the leasing has been that problematic at 1 World Trade. Being 80% leased after only being open for 4 years is pretty successful. Think about how long it took the twins to lease up. — Anthony on In the News: Workaround to Save Birds from “Tribute in Light”

How is the Canal Street Market doing, by the way? Is it likely to survive as a venture? The food areas seem quite busy in the day time; the arts&crafts areas less so. Seems to me that it's serving as a sort of de facto test site for new businesses and ventures on Canal Street. I do hope it succeeds. — Marcus on In the News: Workaround to Save Birds from “Tribute in Light”

Thoughtful - Good questions, but a few thoughts in partial response: - The neighborhood already has a huge complex for such purpose (The so-called "Tombs", or Manhattan Detention); the resistance is to putting in a much larger such facility with much larger population, and the concern is over the effects over this massive local expansion to the neighborhood: safety, congestion, etc. - The closure of Rikers and move to such local facilities is insanely expensive, and sure to grow and grow in price - Arguments have been made that this entire project will not resolve the problems (such as violence) of Rikers, but only move - We need a more convincing argument why reform cannot be done at Rikers, or some other location away from populated centers - Decrease of the prison population can happen just as well at Rikers as anywhere else, so that's actually a separate issue altogether and not a good argument for the moves. So one can consistently be in favor of reducing the prison population and against the closure of Rikers and move to these local facilities — Marcus on In the News: Residents Argue Against the Jail Plan

In living memory, has any neighborhood anywhere in the City welcomed a facility for the poor or for those with social stigmas (alcohol, drugs, crime)? Aside from dumping them all in remote places (Jury Duty on Rikers Island? Cool!), how does anyone propose solving the problem? With decriminialization of marajuana and the end of stop and frisk, will the Rikers population decrease further? Will bail reform initiatives have an impact? The size of the population at Rikers is the result of public policy as much as it is by the crime rate. I wonder if “community use” spaces will exist in perpetuity. I’m thinking of promises made by developers for public spaces and the g radial takeover of “community” spaces in some public housing projects. — Thoughtful on In the News: Residents Argue Against the Jail Plan

OneRepublic at WTC? Why? I work downtown and every block has construction where you hear everything except English. They're definitely not union but wear hardhats with union stickers. — Sara Ross on Seen & Heard: Kiddie Academy Opening Forecast

The remainder of Cortlandt Way between 3 and 4 WTC opened this morning. — Anthony on In the News: Residents Argue Against the Jail Plan