Great idea. — Amy on Tulum Hotspot Gitano Is Opening an Outdoor Restaurant Here

There's a stop-work order on the property for "failure to safeguard all persons and properties," according to the DOB site, which also cites "work contrary to SSP, "no OHP at EXP 1/3, and "expired DOT permit/and no ramp for wheelchair accessibility to street @EXP1." I suspect it'll get worked out soon enough—stop-work orders are not uncommon at new construction projects. — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: Peek Inside a New Café

Please, please, please come to the upper East Side. We need you!!! — Beth Greenspan on An Opening Date for Trader Joe’s Soho Store

Any word on what's happening at 108 Chambers? Construction seems to be in a long pause there, while 30 Warren climbs steadily. — Gregg on Seen & Heard: Peek Inside a New Café

This is excellent news. We make sandwiches. Also we have hard boiled eggs. — Alif Deli on Perpetuum Café Has Closed

Petland on Nassau isn't gone, it has consolidated into half of the former space that it was in before but it is still there (it was closed briefly while they remodeled to halve the store size). — Jamison on Seen & Heard: Our New Commanding Officer

Great idea! — AF on Tulum Hotspot Gitano Is Opening an Outdoor Restaurant Here

the rent was too high. no pedestrian traffic. Even Starbucks would probably fail there. — PerryR on Perpetuum Café Has Closed

Thanks for sharing Erik! These are some great images. — Douglas on Instagram Tribeca (Vol. 27)

How can we move to have the billboard removed? What a horrible act of vandalism to the neighborhood. — Marcus on Seen & Heard: Our New Commanding Officer

At White and Church. MUCH BETTER did not really hear a thing. Congratulations and thank you. Great Event. — Jim NYC on A Much-Improved Five Boro Bike Tour

The website says the store has "Beer, Wine, Spirits," but I'm guessing that that's a mistake (because NYS law doesn't allow supermarkets to sell wine or hard alcohol), and there's never been mention of a wine-store annex. I've reached out to TJ to confirm it. — Erik Torkells on An Opening Date for Trader Joe’s Soho Store

Any confirmation on there being wine here? — Data on An Opening Date for Trader Joe’s Soho Store

I've been shopping at Tent and Trails for at least 40 years. Not obsessively nostalgic, but it remains one of the best shops of its kind anywhere. I really can't imagine this treasure shutting down. — David G. Imber on Seen & Heard: FiDi’s Other Sky-High Restaurant

I agree from the corner of Church and Thomas, noise was much less this year. Just the cheers from the riders as each group took off. I think it's a great event so put up with the noise over the years but noticed a marked improvement this year. — TribecaMom on A Much-Improved Five Boro Bike Tour

I can confirm that the James Kent restaurants are absolutely happening. I've already been to a tasting. :-) There will be two restaurants, both of which are as yet unnamed. The ground floor eatery will be 7,000 sf and the Observatory (taking up the top 5 floors of 70 Pine) will contain a pre-fixe restaurant, bar, lounge and outdoor terraces. It's a spectacular space. Target opening date is November 1st. — Luis Vazquez (FiDi Fan Page) on Seen & Heard: FiDi’s Other Sky-High Restaurant

IMHO, the billboard looks like crap. — KP on Seen & Heard: Our New Commanding Officer

Tribeca has become as bleak as it was after 9/11. Long term LOCAL businesses gone. Area now populated by transient tenants with a dorm mentality who live on delivery and really do not care. IPN has been one of the biggest offenders for catering to this, even though they've had to drop residential fair market rents. They overuse apartments with people who st home, get delivery and beer and do not go out. Places come and go, I have never seen so many women's lingerie shops appear and disappear. It was a pioneers stronghold, gone are the galleries or anything artistic. Most people who have lived here any length of time try to shop local. Big chains like Subway, Banks and NYSC can't sustain the rents. I was told recently that at 'Duane Reade by Walgreens' certain items are priced by zip code. Because I compared the $1 increase from the store on broadway. Lower Manhattan population is too low and has little foot traffic ( like soho) for stores to even cover the rents. As some one mentioned, you are not going to sell 50,000 slices of Pizza. 10k is a bargain for commercial space. Some Condo owned retail space the rent is kept within reason as they'd rather have it occupied. There is n't even a regular Chinese restaurant around here. — John C on The Desertification of Street-Level Tribeca

Last year, a Chelsea TJ employee said that the Soho location would have more registers than the Chelsea location. On another note, several employees have mentioned that TJ reads, and is responsive to comments submitted by customers via their website, If there is anything you want at the Soho store location, submit it soon! Meanwhile, I'm waiting... — RK on Progress at Trader Joe’s Soho Store!

I'm shocked and pretty upset by this. I live in Tribeca and have a dog. I would understand charging a fee if the space was on private land, but these people are squatters. I clean trash on the sidewalk; it doesn't give me the right to extend my apartment borders out and block other people from using the sidewalk. There are tons of community groups around that plant flowers and do trash cleanup days for public spaces out of a sense of community pride. Absolutely none of them go own to claim ownership of the property. It is appalling that the heads of DOOT, Shirley Jaffe and Jared Sheer, have deluded themselves into thinking that they were somehow benefitting the community. The only people who benefitted were the people they decided to bestow membership on. Regardless of the fee to use the park (which we do all pay for through city taxes), they were also discriminating against dog owners they didn't like or who they felt "didn't fit". Public land is for public good. Not the benefits of a select few who are grabby and selfish. — Camilla on Showdown at the Warren Street Dog Park

I thought this sign was posted at the Warren Street Dog Run... — James on Where in Tribeca…?

The actual address is 90 Hudson Street? regards, Sonia — Sonia Ff. stock on Where in Tribeca…?

This is located in the parking lot at 1worth street off of hudson st, regards Sonia Stock — Sonia Ff. stock on Where in Tribeca…?

Or you will get this: "Adam Ottavino Rebuilt Himself in a Vacant Manhattan Storefront" By Travis Sawchik fangraphs.com "Between West 124th and 125th Streets on St. Nicholas Ave. in Harlem rests a street-level commercial space situated between a Dollar Tree and a Chuck E. Cheese’s, and it is where [professional baseball player] Adam Ottavino might have saved his career last winter. "The space was a solution to a problem. He lived in the city in the offseason with his wife and two-year-old daughter. In previous offseasons, he had traveled out to Long Island to work and throw at a facility, but the commute and practice time away was beginning to strain his family. [...] "Ottavino, a Brooklyn native, required a productive offseason. He was left off the Rockies’ Wild Card roster weeks earlier after an awful 2017 season when he walked nearly seven batters per nine innings, leading to a 16% walk rate. He was in the final year of his contract. He had spent some time at Driveline Baseball after the season ended. He thought he had now had some solutions. He had bought tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment with which to try and make himself a better pitcher. But he needed a place to experiment. "His father-in-law, a real-estate developer, had an idea. He had a vacated commercial property, a former Nine West shoe store, that rented at $22,000 per month. He would allow Ottavino to use the space for four months for free that winter as a high-tech, makeshift throwing facility. It was a block from the 'A' and 'C' trains that would allow for him to have a short commute back into the city. "Ottavino recalled his father-in-law’s rationale behind the generous offer: 'Because I love you, but also because you’re going to get me a Nolan Arenado-signed bat.' "Ottavino got the bat. Then he went to work in the Harlem commercial space. He plastered black paper on the storefront, ceiling-to-floor windows, to conceal what was occurring inside. Ottavino wanted to keep out prying eyes. The vacant space was empty save for some curious items. "'It was funny, there were people out there all day looking in,' Ottavino said. [...] "His father-in-law’s narrow commercial space, at 80 feet deep, was perfect for a pitching mound. Ottavino outfitted it with a store-bought mound, a strip of artificial turf, netting, and, of course, his cameras. It was the ultimate urban throwing space. How many indoor pitching facilities were there in Manhattan? There certainly couldn’t be many. [...] https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/adam-ottavino-rebuilt-himself-in-a-vacant-manhattan-storefront/ — James on Perpetuum Café Has Closed

People and companies are rational. If there is a fee or penalty for vacant stores they will be incentivizing low quality stores and not the types of tenants that will have ties to the community and that will improve both the spaces and the neighborhoods they serve. — Larry on Perpetuum Café Has Closed