Plus: Battery Park landscape designer Piet Oudolf; the charm of single-block streets; Time Out New York survey; high school student attacks newsstand vendor, gets slashed. / 5 comments
Plus: Taylor Swift as New York City ambassador; Howard Hughes Corporation buys another Seaport property; rendering video of One World Observatory at 1 World Trade Center; White Street review. / 8 comments
Plus: Local hospital says it's trained and ready for Ebola; 1 World Trade Center opening November 2, give or take a day; jewelry shop signs on at Brookfield Place. / 3 comments
But for how long? (Update: No bells today.) Plus: A better pic of 1 World Trade Center's base lit up; teddy bear sculpture extended; Greenwich façade unveiled; Drill Fitness opening date; Italian dinner party. / 6 comments
Plus: Return of the Winter Garden light show; Tribeca pioneer Joseph Bilger's paintings of 1WTC; new newsstand tenant; "Sheila the Great"; Spring Street Salt Shed progress; Hudson Street pizzeria; 1WTC surprise. / 3 comments
"One WTC sidewalks are open to the public for the first time in 14 years," tweeted @WTCProgress. Not quite sure what the scope of this change was, I headed over.... / 4 comments
Plus: Glimpses of 5 Beekman and 15 Renwick; shadow sculptures at One Art Space; Oktoberfest on Stone Street; 1 World Trade Center lobby art.
Plus: More on the Morsi trattoria; brunch at Washington Market Tavern; White Street renovation; historical pic of W. Broadway; 1 World Trade Center plaza; Exceed open house; Oculus quills.
Plus: 1 World Trade Center floor plans; model preparations for Fashion Week (including sonograms to locate fat pockets); living above the World Trade Center site; Hotel Indigo rendering. / 1 comment
Plus: Kutsher's sign; 1 World Trade Center reflections; strong Pen Parentis lineup; "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"; new 346 Broadway rooftop structures; Greenmarket update. / 2 comments
You are absolutely right. Tribeca has become a soulless land of chain cafés, spas and orthodontists. All about Tribeca moms... — R. / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
Looking at other people = fun. Being looked at = not so fun. This is (still) a gross invasion of... — Downtown Dad Again / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
The photograph begs the question: when is that scaffolding coming down? Seems a very very long time that it has... — George Bacon / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
ITS BACK BETTER THAN EVER! BEST LOCAL PLACE FOR A DRINK AND GOOD FOOD!!! CANT WAIT FOR LUNCH!!! — AA / North Bar is closing for the summer — and will reopen as something new
Since this issue is in play again, I'll opine that the "fluid boundaries between public and private space" is an... — Gary / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
I think you would feel differently if your private moments with your children were being surveilled and photographed. People shouldn't... — Fiona / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
Truly sad. Got our son's first "Tribeca Cool Kids" clothes there 15 years ago (on sale!) and they couldn't have... — Downtown Dad Again / Koh’s Kids on Greenwich has closed