Plus a Stranger Things loft; an old-school live/work painter's studio; the Versailles pied-a-terre is of course a penthouse.
The digital media company Culturespaces has transformed the landmarked lobby of the Emigrant Savings Bank, turning it into a video experience. / 4 comments
Plus NYPD officers who died from 9/11 illnesses are added to the memorial wall; two teenagers dive in the Hudson for a volleyball (and are fished out); work on the equitable building is complete. / 2 comments
Plus: Joe & the Juice also refuses to take cash; Tango Legends performance; New York Dolls name change; swell 49 Chambers; celebrity bartenders at Woodrow's.
Plus: Opening forecast for Whitmans restaurant on Hudson; renovated 49 Chambers revealed; Philly Pretzel Factory opened; a seventh shoot. / 3 comments
Plus: Grand rooms at former banks now for private use; more on the Bronx Museum of the Arts incubator; local thefts.
Plus: Everything is a third off at Tent & Trails; Town Stages discussion; new windows at 49 Chambers; Reade Street building wants a loading zone; World Trade Center mural; pop-up gallery; the Bill Charlap Trio. / 5 comments
Plus: Helmut Newton show in the dazzling lobby of 49 Chambers; loungewear pop-up in a 30 Park Place apartment; the history of a Pine Street building. / 18 comments
"I always though the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank sign on 49 Chambers was done in brick, rather than painted on, but in your recent Then & Now post, the sign seems to have changed between 1936 and 2017. Any idea what the story is?" —A. / 4 comments
Plus: Body recovered off north Battery Park City; students trying to help Tribeca teacher; updated flood-protection design for Battery Park City; more on the Tribeca Park sculpture and another supertall tower likely for FiDi; city council candidate alleges campaign misdeed. / 3 comments
Plus: Remembering artist James Rosenquist; the future of the grand bank lobby at 49 Chambers; another Augustine review; FDNY toughens anti-hazing rules after incidents at a Tribeca firehouse.
Plus: Gwyneth Paltrow price-chopped her loft (and added photos to the listing); the grand banking hall at 49 Chambers; Community Board 1 is reorganizing its committees; FiDi Indian restaurants; bridges said to be structurally deficient.
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