'Tis the season to welcome a new non-profit to the neighborhood: at Luv Michael on Walker, autistic adults produce specialty granola that is sold in dozens of stores across the city and beyond.
Plus: Opening forecasts for Los Tacos No. 1's Tribeca restaurant and Luv Michael's granola kitchen/shop; more of 91 Leonard revealed; Downtown Express is posting online elsewhere.
Plus: The sorry state of City Hall Park; how to recycle your Christmas tree; renovation of the little building on Walker Street; what's up with Breads Bakery at the World Trade Center mall? / 7 comments
Plus: Stella will be moving; advertising barge; the restaurant in the former Trump Soho has failed again; Community Board 1 to discuss P.S. 150 move and rooftop additions on Walker and Duane; Sherwin-Williams paint store opening in former nightclub. / 1 comment
Also on Community Board 1's October agendas: Landmarks-related changes to buildings on Duane and Walker; something involving liquor at Chipotle; naming a block after an NYPD officer killed in Iraq; the plans for a pedestrian park at Sixth and Church; more. / 5 comments
Plus: Another truck collapsed the sidewalk; long-delayed subway elevator is finally up and running; Church Street storefront activity; "Instinct" shoot. / 3 comments
The nonprofit organization Luv Michael, which employs people with autism to make granola, is opening a store in Tribeca. / 3 comments
Plus: Japanese restaurant pop-up at B Flat; Taryn Toomey's fitness studio opens this week; misguided wayfaring signage; activity at the former Greenwich Grill space?; creamy façade on Walker. / 1 comment
Plus: Walker Street renovation; report on the free fireboat ride; River Project's 30th anniversary benefit; Duane retail space activity; Lower West Side block party. / 2 comments
The city's townhouse craze is hitting Tribeca hard. Let's review the 10 properties currently being listed as single-family homes; nearly all had previously been commercial or multi-family residences. / 11 comments
Plus: Refurbished beauties on Walker and Franklin; how to find the Real Estate Sales Report listings.
And reservations, too. Plus: Bogardus Plaza design meeting; Reade Chambers sales office; Canvas in Soho closed; something up at 42 Walker?; Dover Street Market.
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