Plus: Chinese circus and acrobat show; fashion shoot on Franklin; Le District's weekend-only juice bar; 3 World Trade Center won't appear to block 4 World Trade. / 1 comment
Greenwich Street, the 9/11 Memorial, new views of the Oculus, and 3 World Trade Center. Plus: Fake snow on White Street; brunch at Gunbae; "Girls" and "Mutant Turtles"; Dark Horse revamp. / 4 comments
Plus: Racines NY will begin serving lunch; downtown restaurant boom; FiDi rent stabilization; Seaport on endangered list; Il Matto chef reappears uptown; 3 World Trade Center design change; robbery at knifepoint; another new FiDi tower. / 3 comments
Plus: New food delivery service; hit-and-run victim speaks out; Anthony Bourdain food hall not happening at 3WTC; bill to allow dogs at sidewalk cafés; Bradley Cooper's house hunt; Airbnb user's legal trouble; Daniel Squadron; FiDi Samaritan attacked and robbed. / 3 comments
Check out models of the two unbuilt towers and views of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub and the 9/11 Memorial (where an unopened corner looks ready for its debut). / 7 comments
Yesterday seemed an apt day for a stroll around the long-resurrecting World Trade Center. If you haven't visited in a while, you'll be surprised at the sense of place that now exists there. / 9 comments
Plus: Progress at 3 World Trade Center; City Winery credit-card hack; many more photos of a recent "Loft Peeping" apartment; Brookfield Place office towers filling up.
Also on Community Board 1 agendas for March: Laughing Man's street café; rooftop addition on Franklin; big film FiDi film shoot; 4am weeknights at Haus; Epicerie Boulud; more. / 2 comments
Plus: The recipe for Telepan's coconut cake; Steven Soderbergh buys another apartment; 3 World Trade Center work starts up again; funding for Pier 40 boiler repairs; renovation pays off; vintage party. / 3 comments
Plus: How the Pier 17 roof went from public space to private; the World Trade Center performing arts center gets another new name; Anthony Bourdain's street-food market; Saks Fifth Avenue on how not to handle a bias claim.
Plus: Blue Planet Grill is closing next week; Juice Press father-son lawsuit; 3 World Trade Center restaurants. / 1 comment
Plus: "Secret passageway" between 3 and 4 World Trade Center; Reade Chambers progress; "Forever" shoot in Battery Park City; Washington Market Park survey; composer Tasso Zapanti.
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