The $28 million deal includes 5,000 "usable" square feet for an African cultural history museum. / 7 comments
Plus: 3 World Trade Center is "closer than anyone realizes"; kindergarten waitlist worries; federal asset-forfeiture bonanza; 9/11 volunteers' burden of proof; City Hall Park schoolyard; Christmas tree arson. / 1 comment
Plus: Three city buildings closer to being sold—or maybe not; tourist attacked with hammer; BPCA vs. Asphalt Green; oyster colony discovered; bike-share program possibly delayed; waffle truck; two loft sales; the World Financial Center; dad klatsch. / 2 comments
Plus: White-powder sender could be an eccentric; Meg Ryan keeps a-lookin'; Spruce Street School parents; kindergarten waitlists; WFC cottages; city buildings; Atera wine director bails.
It's time for the final round: What should 22 Reade—which Bloomberg wants to sell—be turned into? I snuck in and took some photos.... / 2 comments
Can't one become a school? Plus: Big addition on Washington Street; elevator fixed; Biddy Early's bids adieu; Brooklyn Bridge noise annoys Gehry building tenants. / 2 comments
I grew up in a neighborhood with basement bagel, bakeries, long, narrow, bagel, ovens, bagelmeister’s, who really knew their craft.... — A. / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
In our house the cart bagels are what we call "cake bagels", barely 1 step up from Lender's frozen bagels.... — Nicole Vianna / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Unfortunately this is true about virtually every public works project in the city. Take a walk around all of the... — Reademan / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City
This bagel Baedeker doesn't even include the ubiquitous food carts that vend breakfast essentials, including - say it - bagels.... — Gary / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Don’t ask me how I have this connection, but I’ve spoken to the construction manager 1:1 before (he didn't know... — Upset BPC Resident / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City
Thank you for the article about the move of our primary retail and repair business, Finlay and Gage, from Tribeca... — Judy Epstein Gage / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood
True North Tribeca! https://www.instagram.com/truenorthtribeca — James Bogardus / North Bar is closing for the summer — and will reopen as something new