What you have created here is extraordinary and unique. And while negativity is to be discouraged, please continue with the occasional snarky comment. It's part of your charm. — David Cleaver on State of the Site

Best of luck bob we will all be on the look out I would recommend sending this to local rescues and asking them to post on Facebook as well as 'find sugar nyc' has a large following and helps promote other lost dogs (their pit is missing after being stolen) — Sara on Seen & Heard: Keep an Eye Out for Shorty

Could not agree more... and I agree, in large part selfishly, because I am lobbying for expansion to DUMBO. Keep up the great work TC. — Jeff on State of the Site

Eric, thanks for highlight our urgent search for Shorty. He is indeed microchipped. We are all devastated that this sweet soul is going through this after all he has already been through. Thanks to your entire community for any assistance. — BobR on Seen & Heard: Keep an Eye Out for Shorty

erik, this website is part of my daily ritual with a cup of coffee in the morning. TC brings people together, connects them over issues that are meaningful, and knits a community - who else does that??? thank you! — urban cowgirl on State of the Site

I wanted to take an ad out on your site to thank you for all you do, but it's cheaper to do it in the comments section, so thank you! — Jim Smithers on State of the Site

463 Greenwich Street — Jim Smithers on Where in Tribeca…?

Erik, Thank you for all you do. The genuine appreciation for Tibeca Citizen around the neighborhood runs so deep - perhaps more than you may ever know. — McGee on State of the Site

Your work is part of every day for me. Thanks for all you do. — David G. Imber on State of the Site

I love tribeca citizen and it has been an incredibly valuable resource for me in the neighborhood over the years, Thanks! — chris on State of the Site

You should next try making your own content. 80% of what you post is aggregated form other sites. Only your daily walks and observations are your own, for the most part. Transition from news aggregating to making news content. Hire someone if you can't write. — Feedback on State of the Site

I really appreciate your detailed coverage of the CB1 agendas and meetings. You are a saint for sitting through those meetings which require a lot of patience . Please know that your readership is paying attention, and I think this is an invaluable service. You can't cover the details the way you do without actually sitting through the long meetings, but I think it is important and interesting to know with specifics what is happening in the neighborhood (transportation, planning/development, landmarks, quality of life issues, etc.). And your website is certainly a venue for conversation around such issues that doesn't exist elsewhere. And of course I love all the other parts of the website and newletters as well. Keep up the great job!!!! — Betty on State of the Site

The bus stop signs are going up. — Barbara on Nosy Neighbor: When Will the Buses on Warren Return to Chambers?

Thanks for the update and congrats on your progress. I believe you have one of the most successful hyperlocal sites on the web, and it's great that you're willing to share info about it. Two thoughts for you: I think you should consider raising your ad prices again, and keep doing it until you are consistently at only 80 or 90% of inventory sold. If you are consistently selling out, then you don't really know whether you can raise prices further or not. Unlike the print world, there's no penalty for a "thinner" magazine. All that matters is 1) prices x fill rate = total revenue and 2) receiving signaling on whether your prices are too high or two low. Second, could you please encourage your advertisers to let you copy edit their prose for them? It makes sense that ads never use "I". However, the tone often sounds too formal or too conversational, and always strikes me as jarring. If it's closer to your voice, it will fit better into the site. — Dan Kohn on State of the Site

I moved from Tribeca 2 years ago (to California) and still read regularly. Can't look away! Thank you! — La on State of the Site

Glad to hear about the growth. It is well earned. I do not agree with this statement though: "I’ve successfully created a business that doesn’t scale well" I believe there are several other local communities that would love the local news, information and insight that our community gets from the Tribeca Citizen. I wish I had such a good news for my other neighborhood. You could always expand and do something similar with SoHo, the financial district, or several of the other neighborhoods both near and far (although I assume you will have to bring in other reporters). — Josh on State of the Site

great job! Love to read about the growth of TC. — cami on State of the Site

Yours is the only local magazine (even if it is online) that I read weekly/regularly. Your content is appealing, loyal to the love of Tribeca, and on point. Maybe posters or additional print would increase readership. Publicity collaborations might increase readership too. I bring up increasing readership because it will keep you in business and keep you doing this amazing job for all Tribeca citizens :) Thanks for all you do. Love it. — Nichole Whiting on State of the Site

I stand corrected. That's why I said 99%.... — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: Salt Shed Enthusiasm

TCO issued 7/29/15: http://a810-cofo.nyc.gov/cofo/M/121/912000/121912396T001.PDF — James on Seen & Heard: Salt Shed Enthusiasm

The dog run was on the north side, on a separate part of the property. The hotel went back to SLA for a liquor license for the yard. CB2 resolution: June 2, 2015 Director Licensing Issuance Division NY State Liquor Authority 317 Lenox Avenue New York, New York 10027 Dear Sir/Madam: At its Full Board meeting on May 21, 2015, Community Board #2, Manhattan (CB2, Man.) adopted the following resolution: 3. Soho Grand Hotel, 310 West Broadway 10013 (existing hotel OP license seeking alteration to modify and extend its existing licensed premises to include 5,479 sf ground floor side yard area) Whereas, the applicant appeared before CB2’s SLA committee in April/2015 and agreed to adjourn and lay over its application to May/2015 to clarify its permits to occupy, use and operate its adjacent exterior premises for eating and drinking as it proposes/seeks; and Whereas, the applicant operates a 16-story hotel (circa 1996) on West Broadway between Canal and Grand Streets and is seeking to alter its existing OP license (#1023301 exp. June 30, 2015) currently limited to the interior of the premises on the second floor, to 1) add and extend the licensed premises to an exterior 5,479 SF side yard located on the adjacent south side of the Hotel but also extending from West Broadway to Thompson Street and all the way to Canal via adjacent vacant lots; and Whereas, members of CB2 Man.’s SLA Committee also appeared at and toured the interior and exterior spaces the Hotel seeks to add to its existing license; and Whereas, when CB2, Man. originally recommended to approve the Hotel’s existing license in May/1996, the resolution recommending approval did so on the pretext that “there is every indication that it will be a benefit to this community to have liquor available to the hotel’s guests on site, so that they need not go out[side] at night and add to problems caused by the over-proliferation of bars and restaurants in the immediate area of the hotel”; and Whereas, despite not having a permit or license to operate an eating and drinking establishment in the exterior side yard, and despite not having or ever being issued a On-Premise liquor license from the NYS Liquor Authority to serve alcohol to patrons in the exterior side yard, the Hotel nonetheless admitted to improperly and illegally operating and advertising the entire 5,479 SF adjacent outdoor side yard area as a full service Bar known as “Gilligans” and before that operated another Bar known as “The Yard” with one stand up bar and additional service bars, entertainment level music, DJs and large parties causing noise and negatively impacting the area and its adjacent residential neighbors for years; and Whereas, the Hotel has previously appeared before CB2, Man. on two separate occasions in April/2014 and then again in May/2014 with a similar application seeking to alter its existing license to operate in the same exterior south side yard/lot space adjacent to the Hotel but was never able to produce any documentation or demonstrate, in any coherent manner, that its proposed use of the outdoor side yard was legal and permitted for eating and drinking, and that its Special Permit originally issued to the Hotel in 1997 limited retail eating and drinking within the building on the second floor and did not extend to the exterior portions of the Hotel premises, resulting in an unanimous decision by CB#2 Manhattan to recommend denial of the previous alteration application; and Whereas, the existing Certificates of Occupancy filed and posted by the NYC Dept. of Buildings does not permit eating and drinking to any outdoor area adjacent to the Hotel, including the proposed side lot/yard; and Whereas, the Hotel did file an “alteration 1” application to the NYC Dept. of Buildings, the type 1 alteration being an application to change the use, occupancy or egress of the premises, in February/2014 to “convert existing accessory open space of Hotel to accessory eating and drinking area”, but that application was thereafter disapproved by the NYC Dept. of Buildings in January/2015 (NYC BIS Job No. 121912396); and Whereas, when the Hotel was questioned in April/2015 whether it had any writings or could produce any permits establishing that its proposed use of the outdoor side yard was legal and permitted for eating and drinking, it produced a lawyer who stated that he had spoken to City Planning and that they had indicated to him that the Hotel could use of the outdoor space “as of right” but failed to produce any writings or documentation from City Planning or the Department of Building in support of such an assertion; and Whereas, after agreeing to adjourn and layover its application the Hotel though its attorneys provided the email correspondence from City Planning which did not necessarily object to the Hotel’s proposed use of the adjacent side yard but deferred to the NYC Department of Buildings to either approve or disapprove the Hotel’s use of the side yard lot for accessory occupancy and use by the Hotel for eating and drinking; and Whereas, the Hotel agreed not to use the side yard of the Hotel for eating or drinking until it had first obtained the necessary certificate of occupancy from the NYC Department of Buildings that specifically granted permission for this purpose; and Whereas, residents living in the buildings directly adjacent to the adjacent to the exterior on the southeastern side of the exterior yard of the Hotel appeared in opposition to the Hotel’s application citing concerns with music, crowds and were very upset when they learned that the Hotel’s prior uses and operation of the exterior side yard was without permits and without a liquor license for many years despite their countless complaints directly to the Hotel’s management, as well as the Hotel’s failure to prohibit use by patrons to smoke, congregate and drink on an exterior covered landing until 2:00 AM approximately 20-30 feet from their bedroom windows; and Whereas, in response to these resident concerns the applicant executed a stipulation agreement with CB2, Man. with regard to its uses and method of operation for the exterior side yard that the Hotel and its counsel agreed would be attached and incorporated in to their method of operation on their existing On Premise license as follows: 1. The Hotel will not permit staff or patrons to enter or exit the exterior doors located in the Club Room leading to a covered second floor landing and covered staircase on the south side of the Hotel except for emergency egress and will not permit patrons on the exterior landing itself. 2. The Hotel has presented an amended diagram (Exhibit “A” to Agreement) for the use of side yard that designates the location of all tables, one service station and one stand-up only bar, the stand-up bar being located on the far western side of the yard to ameliorate noise impacts on neighbors located on the eastern side of the yard, there will be 19 tables with 4 seats, an additional 9 tables with 2 seats and 10 seats at the stand-up bar, for a total of 104 seats. 3. There will only be table service of alcohol to patrons who are seated at a table or seated at the bar to prevent crowds of patrons from congregating in one location and there will only be food service from the interior Hotel to the outdoor tables located in the side yard. 4. There will be no music or speakers installed outside at any time. 5. There will be no service of alcohol on the eastern side of the yard as designated in the Hotel’s amended diagram (annexed to stipulation agreement with the Hotel) from the entrance gate on West Broadway up and until the Host Station and the Hotel will continue to maintain and not remove the cover over the eastern side of the yard. 6. The exterior gate and entrance/exit on West Broadway will not be open until Noon on Sundays and will be closed every night at 10 PM, the side yard will close Sunday through Thursday at 10 PM and the side yard will close on Fridays and Saturday nights at 11 PM, all business will cease, no loitering, no smoking, there will be no patrons remaining after closing and the lights will be turned off within a reasonable time after closing. 7. There will be two bathrooms installed on the interior ground floor level to accommodate all patrons to the side yard. 8. The Hotel will not use or operate in any manner as an eating and drinking establishment in the side yard until it has obtained the proper certificate of occupancy from the New York City Department of Buildings which specifically demonstrates its proposed use is legal and permitted in the side yard. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that CB2, Man. recommends denial of the alteration application of the existing On Premise license to extend service to the above-referenced outdoor side yard for Soho Grand Hotel, 310 West Broadway 10013 unless the statements the applicant presented are both accurate and complete, and that those conditions and stipulations agreed to by the applicant are incorporated into the “Method of Operation” on the beer and wine license. Vote: Unanimous, with 38 Board members in favor. — James on Seen & Heard: Salt Shed Enthusiasm

It is the south side, just north of "Scrap Yard." https://tribecacitizen.wpengine.com/2015/07/29/valentine-no-44/ — James on Seen & Heard: Salt Shed Enthusiasm

That photo is definitely the south side. — charango on Seen & Heard: Salt Shed Enthusiasm

99% sure it was the north side, but I could've been hallucinating from the heat. — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: Salt Shed Enthusiasm

I'm pretty sure that soho grand picture is from the yard on the south side of the building, which has been some sort of bar for some time. The dog run was in the yard on the north side. Last time I walked by and made note it was still there, though that was a little while ago. — mg on Seen & Heard: Salt Shed Enthusiasm