Plus: Cool new 30th-floor café; Duane Park progressive party; art show about food waste; steel cut-outs. / 1 comment
Plus: The history of a building at Duane and Hudson; Pier 17's balloon installation; the conversion of 1 Wall; Don Wagyu review; Raul Guerrero at Ortuzar Projects. / 4 comments
Plus: Big changes on Canal Street; video tour of 1 Wall; waiting list for affordable housing in the Seaport. / 9 comments
Even at two-thirds the size of the Tribeca store, it should be a game-changer for the neighborhood. / 3 comments
Also on Community Board 1's June agendas: Duane Street eviction and demolition; Pier 26 update; closing part of Peck Slip to traffic; new Park Row tower; the neverending film/TV/ad shoots; Barleycorn liquor license change; more.
Plus: Kathleen Turner is moving to Tribeca; FiDi tower with school gets landmark approval; FiDi development map; Hickey Freeman store debuts next week; new 1 Wall renderings; "rooftopping" daredevils. / 3 comments
Plus: This weekend's storm could bring serious flooding; robbery at knifepoint at Church Street bodega; Houseman review; Governors Island pavilion to be made from clothes hangers; not enough light at Bowling Green; 1 Wall conversion gets OKed by Landmarks.
Plus: The condition of the boys in the attack at the ball fields; New York Law School's financial situation; West Thames Bridge is moving to "the build phase"; tenants suing landlords over rent stabilization promised in exchange for tax abatement; no Evacuation Day honor. / 3 comments
Also on Community Board 1’s January agendas: Changes to the former Ivy's Bistro and Valley National Bank spaces; Flinders Lane Australian restaurant opening on W. Broadway; façade restoration on Reade; enlargement on Hubert; more. / 4 comments
Plus: Pretend you were an office worker on 9/11; Battery Park City's private security officers to have no real power; World Trade Center mall is leased; Whitehall/South Ferry subway station construction; 1 Wall Street conversion changes.
Plus: New rendering of Park Place tower (including the Islamic cultural center?); Balaboosta chef opening Soho restaurant; praising 56 Leonard; 1 Wall Street retail. / 2 comments
Plus: The Battery Park City preschool that misplaced a child has reopened; local experts discuss Rieslings; Tribeca highlights (with very good photos). / 3 comments
James! Thank you ! I love the photo. — Native NYer / Upon the Palace has opened
So by extension, ill will toward the future employees of Hobby Lobby? — Bobbie / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Smartphones and doom scrolling has sucked the life out of our kids. Sometimes you need reminders like this to really... — hmmm / Capturing the lives of Tribeca youth before smartphones took hold
How many times, on a summer afternoon, did I sit on the doorsill at Dudley's Paw with Dudley beside me.... — John Willenbecher / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Yum yum. Looking forward to going here! — SW / Upon the Palace has opened
Yes!!!! My lady and I have been BEGGING for one of these!!!! — Jack Gaff / Chambers Street Wines is opening a wine bar on… Chambers
so, no RIOTS or claims of a “rigged election”; is that the point? 🤔 — baba galacticus / It’s quiet out there