No, NO, NO! I was helping Andrea! I can't take the win! No, SIR! Nosy Neighbor - did they "borrow" these cobblestones from when the recobbling of Harrison, etc. was taking place? — Jim Smithers on Where in Tribeca…?

Amateur...Between Church & Broadway, Prep School — Jim Smithers on Where in Tribeca…?

That's two big blocks! — Erik Torkells on Where in Tribeca…?

Between Broadway and West Broadway? Hard when I can't walk over and check today. — Andrea on Where in Tribeca…?

Jeremy, Thanks for your feedback. I think "inappropriate" is far too strong, but I appreciate your point. This rendering gives a bit of a false impression, actually, our goal would be creating a new building that retains essentially all of 22 Reade's LPC features. Ideally the buildings would actually look the same (with technical improvements). In these renderings, the building looks different in large part due to the coloring of the brick on the northern wall. It would remain red. The buildings would be redeveloped in a very LPC friendly way. By improving structural problems and introducing a publicly accessible and open ground floor, we would introduce a lot more light and air to the Burial Ground Memorial and improve accessibility in that area. We've gone through an exhaustive exercise to decide how to best utilize the LPC features: the iron work, cast facades, the brick, and the 3 buildings' merged design. We'd be targeting an adaptive-reuse-renewal approach, where we could use the historic features to complement a new, efficient green building; incorporating a large eductional, cultural, or museum facility. This is a very early stage and we're trying to create a dialogue to engage with the City and community on this project. So even if you don't necessarily like the design, I hope you appreciate our goal of putting an under utilized space into play as a cultural center or live-work-learn space, and continue the conversation with a City representative, because I'd really like to see movement on this project. Thanks. — Dan Hoeg on City Building to Get Residential Makeover

More specific, please. — Erik Torkells on Where in Tribeca…?

Reade Street? — Andrea on Where in Tribeca…?

That bar looks like my kitchen - well, sort of, I haven't found my globe yet. — Andrea on Seen & Heard: The Annual Halloween Parade

Just what my thirty year olds need. (Feeling snarky this morning. — Janet on Tribeca’s Eleventh Kids’ Clothing Store

It will be crowded and dirty in no time. — Janet on Seen & Heard: The Fancy New Starbucks

" Better to build affordable house where land and construction costs are more modest and the cost of living is affordable on a middle class income." this is the same logic that created the housing projects of the sixties. it's a bad bad idea. — j on In the News: Phone Snatchings

The C of O issued in 1996 shows the legal use on the 1st floor being a store with max occupancy 10 people. That said, the building filed and actually got DoB approval in 1991 to amend the C of O for some kind of theater use. They apparently never finished the work and never obtained the theater C of O to legally conduct business under that use. The stipulations were clear: "AT 1ST FLR, CONVERSION OF EXISTING STORE (UG6) TO THEATRE (UG8A). MINOR PA RTITION AND PLUMBING. HUNG CEILING, MECHVENT. AT CELLAR, C OF O NOMENCLATU RE CHANGE FROM "STORAGE FOR STORE" TO ACCESSORY STORAGE", AT MEZZANINE FROM "OFFICE TO"ACCESSORY OFFICE" FILE REVISED SCH A". SCH A REMARKS 1 NO SCENERY OR SCENIC ELEMENTS TO BE USED 2 NO REFRESHMENT STANDS 3 NO ORCHESTRA STAGE 4 NOT A MOTION PICTURE THEATRE NOTE NO INCREASE IN OCCUPANCY BEYOND 70 PERSONS TO BE PREMITTED WITHOUT OBTAINING AMENDED C OF O." http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?requestid=2&passjobnumber=100176195&passdocnumber=01 It is hard to believe this was a surprise. — James on Soho Rep Has Left Tribeca

I watched the Buddha Bar hearing via SLA webcast and I have a feeling that this is going to go to court or be settled when of the parties threatens litigation with all of the arguing went on between Buddha Bar and the opposers. — Alex Atallah on Seen & Heard: Buddha Bar Battle Paused

I sent an email to the company's press room. — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: The Fancy New Starbucks

any idea on where those Starbucks lounge chairs come from? — Dave on Seen & Heard: The Fancy New Starbucks

Was there any data provided at the meeting for 2015 or year-to-date 2016? I'm a relative newcomer to this part of downtown and even in the 2.5 years that I've lived here, I've noticed a seemingly large increase in the tour bus traffic in and around City Hall Park and then obviously the WTC vicinity. — Wendy on In the News: Legislation to Limit Tour Buses

In other parts of Manhattan developers are being held to the mandates. I guess the question is whether this developer is better connected, etc. I don't see how affordable housing promotes gentrification. My family lived in affordable housing - and have owned in Tribeca for a long time. We're not always bad for property values, a bad influence on the children, etc. — A on In the News: Phone Snatchings

Starbucks is open now. Looks a lot more upscale than the usual branch. They call it the reserve bar. — Dave on Seen & Heard: New Starbucks in Brookfield Place

It's not about "economic sense, " but rather politics. The City would seemingly rather build fewer affordable housing units and in less affordable areas rather than be accused by councilmembers, etc., of inadvertently promoting gentrification. — James on In the News: Phone Snatchings

It would be a double standard if EDC is allowed to place the affordable housing far away from the site. deBlasio's "Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning" mandates private, market-rate developers also build affordable housing, apparently in one of three ways: 1. In the same building 2. In an adjacent building on the same site, aka the much maligned "poor door" 3.On another site within a half-mile of the same community board. Will this EDC project hold the developer to the same rules ? — James on In the News: Phone Snatchings

The city sells these Civic Center buildings because they have not maintained them and they are now decrepit and falling apart, and is unwilling to pay the rising costs of keeping them operational. It makes no economic sense to put affordable housing there when the development costs in this area are so high, and the neighborhood has become part of one the wealthiest communities in the city. Better to build affordable house where land and construction costs are more modest and the cost of living is affordable on a middle class income. — Reademan on In the News: Phone Snatchings

Ah, it's your photo! Thanks, will add that. And we seem confident that it was indeed Tribeca. (If you have more from this area, they're always welcome.) — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: Roof Tree Removed

Sorry about the wrong date! I was in NYC a lot in the 80s/90s/00s. The photo was shot on film using a Nikon FM2 but I'd need to cross check other photos to get an exact date. I'm pretty sure is was in TriBeCa — Jake on Seen & Heard: Roof Tree Removed

The address has a bit of recent history. It was in front of Michelangelo's Pizza that the French documentary makers, Jules and Gedeon Naudet, captured the first plane flying into tower 1 of WTC. They were following firefighters from Duane Street's Engine company 7 investigating a gas leak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miA8Td4oNcY — Michael S on Seen & Heard: Roof Tree Removed

Does it offer manicures? — A on Tribeca’s Eleventh Kids’ Clothing Store