Plus: Ninja has reopened after a rebuke by the Health Department; Canal Street Market has pushed back its debut; sample sale at Room; the Beekman is getting an unworthy neighbor; huge mirrors for sale. / 9 comments
Plus: Yves is just waiting for the gas to be turned on; Augustine's opening date; rumored raid on an ice cream truck; 67 Vestry is on the market; where to get a really good six-foot sandwich. / 2 comments
Plus: Sculpture exhibit of everyday objects made from paper; the American Icon store is closing; the dangerously dark path in City Hall Park; fun-run fundraiser for Battery Park City schools. / 9 comments
Plus: Trinity Boxing Club's new studio is open; Madeline Lanciani's Ring Ding Bar; the Bar Works on Chambers will have a gym; keeping an eye on a likely development in northwest Tribeca. / 3 comments
Plus: The restaurant opening in the former Ivy's Bistro space; Chabad of Tribeca's Rock the Block party; Seize sur Vingt sale; Megu reopening in Chelsea; Park(ing) Day; seeking recommendation for tote-bag printer.
Plus: Ghost signage at newly revealed Greenwich Street restaurant; Two Hands's contentious sidewalk seating has debuted; construction at the Irish Hunger Memorial; Clive Owen movie shoot; glittery graffiti. / 6 comments
Plus: Part of the new Greenwich Street restaurant is unveiled; "Five & Dime" happy hour at Bubby's; the story of Hugh O'Kane's logo; Matt Bernson sale. / 3 comments
Discussed at last night's meeting: Liquor-license applications for Serafina and the Balthazar alums' all-day brasserie in the old Cercle Rouge space (sample menus!); the third street fair on the same Warren block this year; Two Hands's contentious sidewalk café; Buddha Bar. / 7 comments
Plus: Buddha Bar appears to be going straight to the State Liquor Authority; Alex & Ani looks like a showroom; shoots for "Billions" and a Chinese TV series; the new JR mural. / 5 comments
Also on Community Board 1's July agendas: Serafina's liquor license; sidewalk seating on N. Moore, Church, and possibly Murray; Five Boro Bike Tour noise; the conversion of 22 Reade; garbage in the area; and much more. / 5 comments
Plus: Drawings of the restaurant coming to the former Ivy's Bistro space; Liquor Store artwork; Racines NY also participating in Taste of Tribeca for the first time.
Plus: New app for historical photos of New York City; N. Moore wall uncovered; brand orgy on Warren; "Charlotte's Web"; 346 Broadway community space; Seaport District summer programming. / 1 comment
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