Plus: Diners who stare at their phones; new ferry route; developer accuses neighbor of extortion; Independence Plaza tax bill; Broadway condos; Jason Biggs's lot-line windows; man confesses grisly murder at Tribeca police station. / 3 comments
Plus: A firm opening date for A Summer Day Café; the Dead Rabbit is taking stock of the fire and water damage; Broadway plywood down; reserve a free ride on a fireboat. / 1 comment
Plus: Any intel on SLT's Tribeca studio?; Hudson River Park skatepark to close for repairs; a new bank branch; ghost signage on Broadway; "Billions" is back. / 4 comments
Plus: Duane Street Hotel's revamped façade; 443 Greenwich partly revealed; rowing for heart health at Current; Pirch and Planet Blue opening on Lafayette in Soho; half-converted Broadway building put on the market.
Plus: Other places Street Seats could work; Broadway retail mystery; name change for Yuya Nails & Spa; Joey Pepperoni's correction; Jonathan Galassi and the "Nanny Diaries" writers at Pen Parentis salon.
Plus: The paper is down at Maison Kayser; demolition at storefronts on Laight and Broadway; Reines Gallery moving forward. / 2 comments
Plus: Cute newlywed portraits; Mondo Cane 2.0; purse thief scores $8,000; 391 Broadway conversion update.
Plus: Cosmetic store Cos Bar to join the mall; fire on Broadway this morning; Le Restaurant looks back; Bâtard's construction; Stuyvesant Community Center deal.
Eight conversions are currently underway, bringing nearly 500 new residential units to the six-block stretch between Canal and Worth—and that doesn't even include the site that's rumored to be making way for a 14-story condo. / 3 comments
Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were recorded by the city in the past seven days (ending 02/23/13)—the sales may have taken place earlier.
After the roundup of new buildings, it made sense to look at the many buildings being converted into condos. The total number of units from these conversions? Around 350.
Plus: The city was putting heat on Uncle Mike's; Handsome Coffee Roasters pulls out of Demi Monde; Duane Park restaurant; African Burial Ground to temporarily close; the Fulton Fulcrum; New York Rescue Mission; living in a tent in Battery Park.
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