Medrite has already opened a covid testing facility on Chambers and will soon open an urgent care center at Hudson and Chambers. / 1 comment
Our neighborhood's storefront windows are becoming billboards, and in this case, they are also super ugly. / 5 comments
The former Acappella restaurant has been empty for four years, and now might become a gallery space called Drone (?). / 8 comments
Plus: Signage for SLT's Tribeca studio; work happening in former Acappella space; Mark Kozelek and Kevin Corrigan's Christmas concert at Roxy Cinema; Nadler town hall.
Plus: Gas-line work without a permit at Acappella; a question about one of the old "Then & Now" photos; the headquarters of Grace Hightower's coffee company; Wichcraft on Greenwich no longer open weekends. / 2 comments
Plus: Likely site of the second area Juice Press; Jeff Zimmerman at R 20th Century; famous chef added to the Friends of Hudson River Park's board; China Blue on OpenTable.
Plus: BPCA's ex-president's new job; Woody Allen's costume designer; big new Soho building; analyzing 1 Hudson sale; Damon Liss; city council candidate debate; "hot" trainers.
Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were recorded by the city in the past seven days.
Plus: 56 Leonard above street level; breaking glass in northwest Tribeca; Dylan Prime temporarily closed; sample sale at By Joy Gryson; Espasso sale (in Brooklyn); First-Time Tuesday report on Roberta Roller Rabbit (and a deal at Torly Kid); new items on CB1 agenda; 5 Beekman scaffolding is back.
Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were "recorded" by the city in the past seven days (ending 02/16/13)—the sales may have taken place earlier.
Plus: Remembering Harold Reed; Sandy and Verizon; Daniel Libeskind on his apartment. / 2 comments
Craig Bero showed me around the Cosmopolitan Café's Secret Room, where he displays some of the many treasures he has gathered from around the neighborhood. "That hole outside?" he says of the Chambers Street dig. "I was in there last night." / 7 comments
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