Plus: Community "media center" cut by a third and moved to basement; Pier 40 deal still being covered up; Beekman crowns are postmodern; Michael Stipe sells; North Cove Marina; Sketchers guy buys; Zac Posen is late on his rent. / 4 comments
Also on October’s Community Board 1 agendas: Murray Street karaoke bar; Dean's replacement; exterior and interior changes to Broadway landmark; Fulton Center update; Bogardus Park; street fairs; Canal Street newsstand; Peck Slip Park; more.
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
Plus: No hotel at 346 Broadway; Battery Park City Authority's general lack of community representation; drones in Rockefeller Park.
Plus: Broadway conversion loses hotel component; Soho bar to close; possible 3 World Trade Center deal; Seaport distress; new FiDi chicken restaurant; New York Police Museum.
Plus: City Hall Park artwork stolen; Bâtard forecast; driver crashes into NYPD headquarters; Chambers closure on Monday. / 1 comment
Plus: Broadway building being branded as Leonard building; East River Ferry to be extended till 2019.
Eight conversions are currently underway, bringing nearly 500 new residential units to the six-block stretch between Canal and Worth—and that doesn't even include the site that's rumored to be making way for a 14-story condo. / 3 comments
Last month, Mayor Bloomberg announced his intention to sell three city buildings. Local politicians, however, want them turned them into schools or affordable housing. It's hard to know what to think without going inside, so that's what I did yesterday at 346 Broadway. / 9 comments
A reader's rant inspires the question: Which building's longstanding scaffolding bothers you the most? / 2 comments
To the Olio e Piu owners, sincerely: please do not blight this location with fake flowers. We will welcome you... — Cw / Mr Chow is indeed closing
Seeing as Starbucks and other chains tried and failed to replace the bagel place, that is a reasonable hypothesis. — James Bogardus / Apollo Bagels is getting closer…
I think the bagel place is replacing Starbucks and other coffee chains as a place to grab coffee and a... — Amy G. / Apollo Bagels is getting closer…
Lynda I signed up for the 5/17 class. I'll see you then!!! Here is the link to sign up if... — HB / Massive underground spa and meditation space coming to Broadway and White
Lynda I signed up for the 5/17 class. I'll see you then!!! — HB / Massive underground spa and meditation space coming to Broadway and White
Lynda I signed up for the 5/17 class. I'll see you then!!! — HB / Massive underground spa and meditation space coming to Broadway and White
I hate to be so blunt, but this strikes me as racially motivated, not unlike the brouhaha over the courts... — malcolm / Grand Canal basketball court should be back by end of summer