Plus: Blink Fitness is opening another FiDi gym; the Beach Street houses that John Ericsson lived in; Imagine Swimming will have a pool on the Upper West Side; local thefts, including one with a knife threat. / 3 comments
Plus: A Tribecan on what the Goop Health summit was like; the argument against the changes to 140 Broadway's landmarked plaza; Jerry Nadler spoke to Community Board 1; 23 Wall is stalled. / 1 comment
Plus: Uniqlo is said to be mulling a massive FiDi store; student in hit-and-run accident; the history of a Chambers Street building and western Canal Street; Gateway Plaza drama; steam vents. / 1 comment
Plus: When an artist painted a Tribeca bridge pink; World Trade Center mall reviewed; Choza Taqueria has opened; more ice cream bandits; Kim Kardashian and Kanye West; long-vacant Wall Street landmark sold. / 4 comments
Plus: Big Wall Street art show canceled; Soho Photo's Affordable Art Fair; hope for a Broadway retail space renovation; Dine Around Downtown is coming up. / 1 comment
Plus: How to write to Governor Cuomo about Battery Park City Authority board representation; FiDi developer forced to finish buildings; 125 Greenwich will have nearly 150 more apartments than thought; 50 West artist arrangement; Derek Zoolander's favorite country. / 7 comments
Plus: Massive art installation on Wall Street; more on City Hall restaurant's closing, and how it served the homeless a free lunch; when Trinity Church was the New Year's Eve gathering point; homeless couple with 10 cats; theft at FiDi Mexican restaurant.
Plus: New Malaysian restaurant reviewed; another cheap, ugly hotel in FiDi; damage left over from the 1920 attack on 23 Wall.
The landmarked 23 Wall Street could end up with a "luxury bowling" alley, comedy shows, a "sports theater," and other craptastic stuff—with room for 1,500 patrons. / 1 comment
Plus: A filmmaker's ode to New Fancy Food; new WTC mall confirmations; disturbing art billboard; the privatization of Southbridge Towers; Marc Forgione at EWR's Terminal C; why 23 Wall sits empty; Fulton Center escalator trouble; Meredith Monk's loft. / 4 comments
Plus: Daytime swingers club (with "sexy karaoke") bothering neighbors; P.S. 150 wins an award; the 443 Greenwich sales office—and a glimpse of its new penthouse topper. / 1 comment
Plus: Chase Manhattan Plaza still closed for no apparent reason; Sheldon Silver still in hot water; testing out aquaspinning; man hit by subway; "Ninja Turtles" film shoot; Seaport-based cruises; Nelson Blue.
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