I understand the service isn't warm and welcoming (don't get me started on the hateful "Christian" radio one clerk was playing early the other morning), but I love walking into the post office at Church and Barclay. It's one of the best lobbies downtown. And the automated postal machines mean I don't have to deal with any humans. As much as I like buying locally, I wonder if someone shouldn't start an office-supply business that works like Fresh Direct, so small businesses, in particular, don't have to go to the dreaded Staples. Or maybe we're closer to the end of office supplies than we think.... — Erik Torkells on Seen & Heard: Two Restaurant Updates

For stamps, I've started to use Stamps.com. There's a monthly fee of about $15, but you can print your own stamps, labels, even certified mail stickers. Since I've started using it, I haven't been to that dreaded post office in over 6 months. Also, if you set up a UPS account online, you can schedule pickups at a home address and print labels. You may be able to do this for Fedex as well. And - there's another Fedex drop off location on Barclay, between Church and Broadway. — Christy on Seen & Heard: Two Restaurant Updates

There is also a newly opened UPS store on Murray between Church and Broadway. Tough to see because of the scaffolding for the under-construction sliver building, but it is there and open! — BobR on Seen & Heard: Two Restaurant Updates

Yes, it is Tent & Trails. That is the semi-rare semi-original Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring wearing an Osprey daypack. Happy New Year — Jamie Lipman on Where in Tribeca…?

Tent & Trails store? — Liz on Where in Tribeca…?

I'm going to miss Mail Boxes Etc. b/c it was so convenient. One option I use for many of the things the reader mentions is the FedEx store (used to be Kinkos) on Duane b/w Church and Broadway. Hope that helps. — Matt Lundquist on Seen & Heard: Two Restaurant Updates

@Andrea: Nope... — Erik Torkells on Where in Tribeca…?

A restaurant washroom? — Andrea on Where in Tribeca…?

great images indeed :)) — grimanesa Amoros on Another Ride Through the Past

Hey, Tribecca! I was there with you, during that incredible snowstorm in NYS in '79 or '80, completely adrift, looking for a friend of mine from St.Louise, Suellen Epstein, back then before she became famous, I'd come down from Woodstock, another friend, Joan Embre and all her lovely kids (they'd got me reading Dylan Thomas to their school.... I'd got them all into "Under Milk Wood") but I'd never found Suellen then, a realshame, everyone else, cops, taxis, corner shop burger joints, everyone,so friendly to a lost welshman....... eventually I ran out of money, though still with lots of hope and regrets, I went to Kennedy and caught the Freddie Laker home..... I got back with 2pence! But Good Luck to you'all I still dream of you. Really do! — Bill Pritchard on Tribeca in the 1980s

The comments section can be a happy place, even when it's not. — Andrea on Spelling Is Overeated Anyway

Haha. Sorry Erik's mom. — jammypup on Spelling Is Overeated Anyway

Nate Lowman in the NY Times story was taken on Hollywood favorite Cortlandt Alley looking north to White Street. — Troy Torrison on In the News: New Amsterdam Market

@jammypup: Don't talk to my mom that way! — Erik Torkells on Spelling Is Overeated Anyway

@ Get a job What a miserable, pathetic person. Lighten up. — jammypup on Spelling Is Overeated Anyway

@Get a job: Why? — Erik Torkells on Spelling Is Overeated Anyway

Truly enlightening! — popstarr2000 on Reflections on the City (Part 4)

Drybar was open yesterday with every seat filled. Looked like everyone wanted the slush blown out of their hair. — popstarr2000 on Seen & Heard: New Business Updates

You just walk around all day? Get a job — Get a job on Spelling Is Overeated Anyway

Thanks for the link to the article. I greatly dislike the way she claims that SHE can reshape others' bodies. NO. She may be able to HELP people change their bodies, but she can't do it herself. Comes off as VERY arrogant. Guess you need to be to charge $900 per month for a studio membership. — KP on In the News: Tracy Anderson

Regarding Tracy Anderson, isn't that like saying, "I am so busy practicing medicine that I never actually got my license"? And people pay $900 a month for that? As a certified fitness/pilates veteran of 25 years I am appalled. — Lynda Lippin on In the News: Tracy Anderson

Well, well, I do tell. Our building still has "this elevator" as well as an old street elevator. Our children were babies/toddlers when we moved here and now we're grandparents. — Vivian on The Ups and Downs of Old Tribeca

@sonia: Yep! — Erik Torkells on Another Ride Through the Past

Good morning and happy Christmas from Australia. I wondered if these lift are still operating? — sonia on Another Ride Through the Past

what a shame about Raw Cream Music Building... — asaf bar-lev on Tribeca Then and Now #5