The public plaza at 30 Park Place makes a respectable argument for allowing developers to build taller. / 4 comments
Plus: Blue Moon Fish is back; update on the Four Seasons hotel's plaza; a fashion insider's "garage sale"; great old photo of 100 Barclay; 56 Leonard lighting and second-floor cantilevers; art show on Varick. / 3 comments
Plus: Cute façade uncovered at forthcoming Canal Street café; signage for new manicure/blowout salon; checking in on the St. Nicholas National Shrine; child star.
Plus: The history of a Franklin Street building; 70 Vestry penthouse in contract; photos of 30 Park Place penthouse; new CFO at the Battery Park City Authority; review of Paul's Casablanca nightclub on Spring.
Plus: Downtown Alliance's founding chairman, Robert Douglass, has died; night-vision cameras at Battery Park City ball fields; pop-up caviar restaurant; Gateway plaza tenants accuse landlord of fraud; Larry Silverstein is moving downtown. / 2 comments
Plus: More on the Taylor Swift shrine opening next week; Tift Merritt concert; clarification about La Colombe and Chobani; the NYC Street Tree Map; Arlo hotel's bar. / 1 comment
Plus: Cortlandt Alley condo conversion revealed; Il Lee retrospective; "Botany under Influence" at Apexart; Lacoste promotion; visiting a former Tribecan's restaurant in the country.
Plus: Time-lapse video of 30 Park Place's construction; Hornblower party boats to quiet down while docked. / 2 comments
You know how there are people who illegally climb out onto the roofs of tall buildings so they can take photos? A TC reader noticed four of them hanging out atop 30 Park Place yesterday evening. / 5 comments
The latest update on Raccoon Lodge and New York Dolls, one of which is rumored to have found a new home nearby. / 1 comment
Plus: Bar Primi correction; longtime FiDi sushi restaurant has closed; progress at 30 Park Place (and less so at its neighbor); open mic night for adults at Church Street School; missing a charming window display. / 6 comments
Plus: Brookfield Place is planning holiday pop-up stalls in the Winter Garden; another Marvel TV show shooting here; checking in on four towers under construction; do a mitzvah for Thanksgiving; how to apply for the community board.
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