Plus a supertall for Fidi is scaled down; art that honors Little Syria; mid-century at 70 Vestry. / 1 comment
Plus: More on the new building at 1 Beekman; subway elevators approved outside 45 Broad; stuff a Tribeca model likes. / 2 comments
Plus: Community Board 1 voted in favor of subway elevators on Broad Street; Supreme Court nixed Sheldon Silver's attempt to avoid a retrial; Tribeca Therapy quoted. / 9 comments
Plus: Opening forecast for Jill Lindsey's Tribeca shop/café; Canal Street redesign approved; Sunshine Cinema closed; explanation from owner of François Payard Bakery; subway elevator brouhaha; storm resiliency. / 1 comment
Plus: New subway tunnel to Red Hook proposed; city to install 1,500 bollards over the next few years; phone snatched; residents oppose subway elevators on grounds of the terrorism threat; Caviarteria tries again; David Bouley selling his place on Duane. / 4 comments
Plus: Bouley Test Kitchen has moved uptown; the Department of Transportation will reverse traffic on several FiDi streets (and add a diagonal crosswalk); ferry riders forced to wait an hour because boats were full; Wagner Park plan upsets Community Board 1 members; Brooklyn Bridge drill causes concern. / 2 comments
Plus: Developers using the American Disability Act to their advantage; Community Board 1 on 28 Liberty plaza pavilions; housekeeper allegedly stole handbags; musician Alan Vega. / 2 comments
Plus: New design for the Hubert Street mansion; North Cove Marina tenants unhappy with new management; Park Place tower funding, details; illegal ticket vendors arrested; FiDi sidewalk shed relief; Broad Street tower to be second tallest building in Lower Manhattan. / 2 comments
Plus: At home with Tribeca art collectors; gaudy tower going up on Broad Street; people are buying furnished new apartments; Seaport gallery to also be a bar. / 1 comment
Plus: The board member who lives in New Jersey has apparently left the BPCA; another two-story topper on Jay; pharma profiteer Martin Shkreli ordered $120 tea at Brushstroke to impress a date; alleged FiDi con artist; 86-story tower for Broad Street; Tokyo's Hotel Okura.
Plus: Num Pang to open two FiDi locations; Municipal Archives exhibit on Robert Moses's plan to ruin Tribeca; 65-story tower to be built on Broad; arguing against the World Trade Center performing arts center. / 9 comments
James! Thank you ! I love the photo. — Native NYer / Upon the Palace has opened
So by extension, ill will toward the future employees of Hobby Lobby? — Bobbie / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Smartphones and doom scrolling has sucked the life out of our kids. Sometimes you need reminders like this to really... — hmmm / Capturing the lives of Tribeca youth before smartphones took hold
How many times, on a summer afternoon, did I sit on the doorsill at Dudley's Paw with Dudley beside me.... — John Willenbecher / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Yum yum. Looking forward to going here! — SW / Upon the Palace has opened
Yes!!!! My lady and I have been BEGGING for one of these!!!! — Jack Gaff / Chambers Street Wines is opening a wine bar on… Chambers
so, no RIOTS or claims of a “rigged election”; is that the point? 🤔 — baba galacticus / It’s quiet out there