Plus: Cookbook by the chef of Estela and Café Altro Paradiso; cheap fence around 111 Murray; textile art; Pen Parentis's November literary salon. / 1 comment
Plus: Construction of Citi's ferry dock is underway; Church sidewalk nears completion; a peek inside Chipotle; the Jeff Koons sculpture is being refurbished; 111 Murray's hoist is coming down.
Plus: More on the efforts to extend P.S. 150's stay in Tribeca; meeting on 9/11 health effects; new buildings getting fully designed interiors; Battery Park City resiliency budget.
Plus: Good deeds from Distilled's chef; OneRepublic video shot at Oculus and a local café; 111 Murray facilities and signage; activity at the former Don Hill's; checking in on 30-story Greenwich West building. / 3 comments
Plus: Kaffe 1668 South is getting a renovation; construction truck crashes through hollow sidewalk; could the big stage at the Oculus be for the VMAs?; climbing dome at Peck Slip; the entrance to 111 Murray is open (but the sidewalk isn't). / 1 comment
Plus: Attempting to replicate a photo of 111 Murray; tourist bus crowds at West and Chambers; competition to design a better garbage can; half the unknown-location photos from the late 1980s have been identified. / 3 comments
Plus: Former Trump fixer puts 111 Murray apartment up for rent; local thefts; living in Battery Park City; FiDi development map; Champion to open store on Broadway. / 7 comments
Plus: 111 Murray nears the finish line; picnic planners based in Lower Manhattan; pop-up preview of Brooklyn Chop House, opening soon in the former Denny's space.
Plus: New line of cannabis products from Bubby's owner Ron Silver; new buildings with fancy lobby lighting; Terra owners settle with former employees who started a similar restaurant in Chicago; Pier 25 and 26 air rights. / 1 comment
At a building developed by friends of the President. Plus: The history of 44 Walker includes a rooftop bird-and-butterfly sanctuary; massive price chop for potential Hubert single-family home; hummus ice cream; mulling the next huge Seaport development.
Plus: The Fourth Estate salon that was on Hudson; Dine Around Downtown food festival is next week; absurd elevator at the World Trade Center Transportation Hub; the back of 111 Murray. / 2 comments
Plus: Dramatic video of the rescue at 111 Murray; Sheldon Silver found guilty of corruption; more on the sky-high restaurants coming to 70 Pine; Century 21 employee arrested for assault; firefighter alleges harassment. / 2 comments
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