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
As I see it, it all matters. A civilized city should have good solutions to all of these issues. — Marcus / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
With Paper Source now closed inside Maman, where are people buying greeting cards/wrapping paper locally? (I want to avoid Hobby... — Sara / Seen & Heard: Maman is back open
I prefer the stickers to homeless, junkies, and excrement from dogs or humans. Focus on what matters maybe? — Thomas / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
Agreed about the sidewalk stickers, along with the painted on / sprayed on sidewalk ads and "clever" saying. Also, what... — Marcus / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
Those sidewalk stickers are a new out of home ad treatment; they are everywhere, they are hideous and yes, they... — nichole / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
I love this interview. What that NC senatorial candidate said about Morris -- that he captured her voice uniquely well... — Komanoff / TCQ&A: Morris Katz
a reminder to parents and care givers: Duane Park Patisserie gives homemade treats to trick or treaters from toddlers through... — madeline c lanciani / Halloween in Washington Market Park — and more to come