Residents of 161 Duane – which has the former Bouley space on its ground floor – successfully scared off the applicants for a 128-seat Southeast Asian hot spot. / 4 comments
Plus: Beautification of a Chambers Street building; Mmuseumm catalog; Franklin storefront activity; advice on how to thwart ADA-abusing lawyers.
Plus: New subway tunnel to Red Hook proposed; city to install 1,500 bollards over the next few years; phone snatched; residents oppose subway elevators on grounds of the terrorism threat; Caviarteria tries again; David Bouley selling his place on Duane. / 4 comments
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.
Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were "recorded" by the city in the past seven days (ending 11/24/12)—the sales may have taken place earlier. / 2 comments
Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were "recorded" by the city in the past seven days (ending 10/20/12)—the sales may have taken place earlier.
"Why does the building on Duane (just east of Hudson) say Whalebone?" —A. / 1 comment
Plus: The backstory on a "Loft Peeping" apartment; Ina Bernstein's tribeca; Justin Bieber. / 1 comment
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Would love to help. Honest question. What can we do? — Randy / What can be done about counterfeit vendors?
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