I agree with you Concerned/helpless. Its disgusting and scary, nothing gets done. Vote accordingly — Native on Nosy Neighbor: Why are there playing cards scattered on the street?

Excellent, and welcome to the neighborhood. Sounds a bit like Lectures On Tap, that has become very popular. Reasonable folks hopefully appreciate the clarification. Forget the naysayers. They have a choice. Don't participate. — Jg on There’s a private nightclub on Leonard Street!

TIL that Gambit lives in Tribeca. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambit_(Marvel_Comics) — harryh on Nosy Neighbor: Why are there playing cards scattered on the street?

It's actually a man who throws them at cards and people usually on Greenwich. Seen him multiple time chucking cards. — Pickle on Nosy Neighbor: Why are there playing cards scattered on the street?

I prefer the unclear motives of a man methodically slinging cards across the street version better. — F on Nosy Neighbor: Why are there playing cards scattered on the street?

I don't care how loud your club is or whether you have a liquor license. Go nuts, whatever. I care that it's commodifying art and expression and locking it up for the "elite" few who can pay your membership fees (and be admitted). BORING. The antithesis of what it means to create, to be creative, to connect and put something meaningful out into the world. Artists need to get paid but creating an environment that promotes this financial hierarchy where art is for those who have the means to pay for it (or are "celebs" who get in gratis) is corny as hell and embarrassing. How "avant garde" is it going to be when your audience is mostly wealthy people who have paid for a personality? It's also perfectly emblematic of what the Tribeca of today is, so I'm sure you'll be wildly successful! Congrats. — Elizabeth on There’s a private nightclub on Leonard Street!

So these artists are living in endangered Brooklyn lofts, yet they can afford what you also describe as "very pricey" memberships to an art club in Tribeca... Artists shouldn't need an art club with an exorbitant membership fee to create and be creative. When I was a kid in Tribeca, art "clubs" like Wetlands were not privatized and you could see a band or go to a reading for $5-10. Poetry at Ear Inn was free if you got yourself a beer and a seat. Well before my time the Fluxus folks staged avant garde performances and did not have a guestlist at the door that you paid to be added to. Artists deserve to get paid but art is not also only meant for the wealthy. I don't object to the possibility of noise or street drunkeness - I object to the high-end commodification of art/artistic expression. If you have to keep out the public and pay thousands of dollars a year to see it, then it's not worth seeing. — Elizabeth on There’s a private nightclub on Leonard Street!

Not approved by the CB - please report them to the SLA! They were approved for a restaurant license until 1am and they asked for 12 buyouts a year for private events - like Christmas Parties and Social events. Even with a buyout - the license time is 1am... not 4am. — TM on There’s a private nightclub on Leonard Street!

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Well that escalated quickly.... — Popcorn... on Nosy Neighbor: Why are there playing cards scattered on the street?

Goa closed in fall 2024. The new restaurant is Farzi. https://tribecacitizen.com/2025/05/01/sneak-peek-new-indian-coming-to-the-old-goa-space/ — Tribeca Citizen on There’s a private nightclub on Leonard Street!

No its a homeless lady that steals the cards from local business lots for less in chambers. She sleeps in the staircase at 27 Warren along with a few others. The City agencies do nothing , the locals that live here are just as worse leaving dog poop along the sidewalks in Tribeca. Between the locals & homeless Maintenance crews along these streets ,grin & bear this problem everyday with no end in site. Smoking weed with no compliance to the smoke free clean air act in front of luxury condos ZERO Enforcementfrom city agencies, dog poop & homeless people and drug abusers and drug dealing is rampant with no hope in site. This is everyday. Call 311 ??? Nothing gets done — Concerned/Helpless on Nosy Neighbor: Why are there playing cards scattered on the street?

I observed the same occurrence and mentioned it to my wife, as we were both quite puzzled. Shortly before 7:00 a.m. this morning, we saw a man standing on the northwest corner of Chambers and Greenwich, methodically flinging playing cards across the street one by one. - Ty — Ty Lenoll on Nosy Neighbor: Why are there playing cards scattered on the street?

Walked past the man responsible for the cards this morning at 7am!! He was slinging the cards from the park corner… motive was unclear. — Krista on Nosy Neighbor: Why are there playing cards scattered on the street?

Hello, My name is Manena, and I am a partner in CX and Lumo Ombro, which is partnering with Farzi at 78 Leonard St to bring more culture and conversation to Tribeca (but not big parties!) Please allow me to clarify who we are and our intentions for the space. For 15 years, I worked at the head of interiors at ABC Carpet & Home. Through this time, I learned the power of restoring peoples sense of awe and wonder through creative storytelling. I also learned that people are hungry for alternatives to the mainstream predictable environments and experiences that our mass production world is used to and more than anything, I saw the potential and the desire for deep, and deeply connected community within New York City. For a couple of nights a week, this is what we are bringing to Farzi at 78 Leonard St. We are aiming to create a new kind of cultural center where artists and intellectuals can cross-pollinate ideas. To be very clear, we are not creating a nightclub. Our language and imagery are edgy, and nightlife, as we do produce large-scale events at other locations, and it's that imagery that brings in the young artists we most want to connect with. Our intention with 78 Leonard St is to create a cozy performance lounge, with interesting people connecting through conversation inspired by dynamic avant-garde performances, within a stunning space nestled on our quiet block in Tribeca. And we want to keep the block quiet! And very livable! Our first opening event during fashion week was met with a lot of enthusiasm, and hence, the scale was much bigger than expected. This is not our usual thing, as you will see as you get to know us over the weeks to come. Here's what we are planning: Soon, we intend to open a boutique flower shop and tea lounge during the day that will be open to the general public. On weeknights, we intend to host intimate talks with leading thinkers from around the world,artists, authors, scientists and on the weekends, we hope to host intimate performance nights with various avant-garde artists across the spectrum (think modern dance, world music, aerialists, and the like). Our focus is building community to inspire deep conversations while promoting and hosting local artists. You will see in our promotions that we do bigger events, but those are hosted in other spaces in other neighborhoods, like our large-scale masquerade event happening at a historic club in Chelsea. We look forward to meeting all of you, and would be happy to meet in person and tour you through the space at any time. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me directly at: Manena@cllctv.com — Manena on There’s a private nightclub on Leonard Street!

The opening night was a private event that was within the bounds of what as approved of the community board (Farzi is allowed a limited number of private events per year.) It is not our intention to have a regular program that goes beyond 1am on regular nights. — William on There’s a private nightclub on Leonard Street!

It’s me, the magical Mandy of Tribeca! I have tricked you! — Mandy on Nosy Neighbor: Why are there playing cards scattered on the street?

As one of the founders behind this project, I'm profoundly offended by this comment. Please see our letter to the neighborhood submitted in the comments below. But more than anything, please come by and meet the people you are speaking about before posting something like this. If you come say hello, I think you will like us and we will happily forgive you. I'll start by introducing ourselves, My name is William and I've spent 25 years working on art and culture in New York City, I had a gallery in Long Island City, and have done projects with the Louvre and within Obama's White House. Manena, our lead designer and lead on hospitality was the lead designer at ABC Carpet & Home for 15 years. Jessica, our lead on our academic programming is the author of Wired This Way and is a much loved scholar on the current human condition. Douglass Rushkoff, our Scholar in Residence is a well known author, speaker, and host of the podcast Team Human. I know it can be fun to write wild things about people on the Internet, but please, take a moment to get to know us first. — William on There’s a private nightclub on Leonard Street!

Hello everyone! This is William one of the founders behind the project you all are debating within the comments. Please, let me take a moment to introduce ourselves and our intentions. Below is a letter we shared with our direct neighbors, and I'm happy to share it with all of you, including our direct contacts. Please feel free to get in touch with any thoughts/questions/needs, or to simply come check out what we are up to! Dear Neighbors, First and foremost, I want to thank you all for your patience with our opening night event last Saturday, as it was fashion week, and our opening turned into quite a scene. Please accept our sincere apologies if the event was a disruption; this is not our usual program. I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves and our intentions for the space at 78 Leonard St. We are working with the team at Farzi to enliven the restaurant they've built with talks, performance nights, and wellness experiences all within our brand CX. CX is an avant-garde private performance community, that works with a membership base of artists and creators from across the city and around the world. We work with spaces like Farzi to bring community and culture to further their program (and cash flow) and to bring in new audiences. The event the other Saturday wasn't typical for us; mostly, we do fun, nerdy discussions on art, science, and the future of technology, for example the author Douglas Rushkoff is our Scholar in Residence. As a Tribeca neighbor, we'd be happy to have you come by anytime to experience directly what we are building. You will find, immediately, that it's far far far from what some of you are assuming in the comments (Thank you Vince G speaking up for us). Just mention that you are a neighbor when you come to the door, and our team will welcome you in. Right now we are only creating content a couple nights a week alongside and within the Farzi food service program. Please come by and say hello! 78 Leonard St., New York, NY Our goal is to be good neighbors, to bring more culture to Tribeca (we love this neighborhood!), and (hopefully) to be a meaningful part of an essential dialogue happening across New York City and beyond. In the meantime, if you need anything from us, please don't hesitate to email us directly: William - william@cllctv.com Manena - manena@cllctv.com — William on There’s a private nightclub on Leonard Street!

Perhaps a magician who has not yet mastered card tricks... — Robert Ripps on Nosy Neighbor: Why are there playing cards scattered on the street?

There were even more here this morning! I’m convinced there’s a secret underground card club that meets exclusively on this corner and they’re terrible at cleanup. Very low-key invested in solving this very niche urban mystery. — Card Collector - A on Nosy Neighbor: Why are there playing cards scattered on the street?

I grant the language is overly flowery. Yet I've worked with some of these people on other projects and they actually are a lot like the loft dwelling artists of Tribeca in the 70's. They are artists who live in lofts in Brooklyn, which are as endangered as your home once was. The majority are more performance and multimedia forward than the painters of the 70s. But that's the art world now. CX is going to be very pricey to get into and will be a membership only deal. So you are not going to have a bunch of wild, drunken children out there. There was little to no impact on their pop-ups in SoHo and the other neighborhoods they did first. It will be an interesting, 7-floor experiment. — Vince G on There’s a private nightclub on Leonard Street!

@TM: This is not GOA. It is CX, an entirely different venture. — Vince G on There’s a private nightclub on Leonard Street!

Nothing to add except I am so glad you are asking because it has regularly perplexed me how they keep getting there! — Chris on Nosy Neighbor: Why are there playing cards scattered on the street?

Looking forward to it, their appeal is supposed to be an average product at dirt-cheap price, hope they keep it up! — chinatown peach on World’s largest chain restaurant is coming to Canal Street