Over the past three weeks, the sidewalks have been surprisingly clear. Too good to be true? / 14 comments
Another interactive video art installation is coming to the neighborhood -- this time to the long empty bank at 415 Broadway / 14 comments
The 33,000 square foot space will house a market, members-only restaurant, nanobrewery, culinary social club, tea parlor -- and more! -- scheduled for late this year. / 22 comments
Plus painting Chambers Street in the chill; ways to mulch your Christmas tree; watching 137 Varick get dismantled floor by floor for Disney. / 3 comments
This has the potential to dramatically change the flavor of Canal Street. / 16 comments
Plus: The Souths building is back on the market; reader seeks French instruction; no peddlers yesterday; yet another shoot this week; stores offering luggage storage; Chinatown street to be closed to cars for three months; Bowery café; neat old sign. / 4 comments
Plus: Are changes coming to a N. Moore parking garage?; the police appear to be sticking to the crackdown on peddlers of counterfeit goods; "The Other Two" shoot; video art; Paula Cole and Bebel Gilberto concerts. / 9 comments
Also on Community Board 1's May agendas: Plans for White Street restaurant and Santos Party House; Hubert Street parking; Warren Street Dog Run; big new building on Canal; Brooklyn Bridge concession; sidewalk café on Chambers; much more. / 4 comments
Plus: More promises about noise reduction from the Five Boro Bike Tour organizers; demolition at the former New York Sports Club; menus for Blue Ribbon Federal Grill and the Roxy's oyster bar; Worth Street traffic mess; Walgreens is subletting. / 3 comments
Don't worry: There's another Duane Reade two blocks away. / 17 comments
Plus: China Blue has a new menu; four brass bands on one stage; photo booth fun at Babesta sneaker party; mannequin obsession. / 2 comments
Plus: The new single-story brick building on Greenwich; "Peter Rabbit" at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center; Con Edison repair update; a question about restaurant/bar news. / 1 comment
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This is heartbreaking. We moved to the neighborhood in 1996, pre-King's, and when my first son was born in '98... — Susan B / Kings Pharmacy, a Tribeca staple for 25 years, will close on June 30