I've been fortunate to get inside a lot of wonderful buildings around here, but there are still many that I'm dying to check out. Are you in a position to invite me over? / 1 comment
Know where this was shot? Prove it. P.S. I'm thinking of making the time WIT...? gets posted random. It'll still be Fridays, but not always at 8 a.m. / 12 comments
Plus: Forecast for Masa's Tetsu restaurant; the grand old New York Mercantile Exchange building on Harrison; Trinity Wall Street music festival; Battery Park carousel RFP; Roberta Freymann sample sale. / 2 comments
Plus: More on the old Mercantile Exchange building; losing money on Tribeca real estate; police blotter.
Plus: Desayuno and almuerzo at Los Americanos; sandwich shop reopens; Citigroup plaza changes?; film shoot; Blumberg's moved; 17 Harrison; Loopy Doopy reopens; Gateway Plaza bike-rack protest; Tribeca Park sculpture; Franklin Place sales office; Walker break-ins. / 3 comments
Plus: Blue Bottle pastry cookbook; Rally Downtown events with whiskey and wine; the gilded spire atop the old New York Mercantile Building; First-Time Tuesdays. / 1 comment
Even if you've closely read every post in the past year, you'll still learn something—such as the fact that yet ANOTHER nail salon is on its way. UPDATE 8/15: The interior designer moving into a Hudson storefront.
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