Plus: Return of the Winter Garden light show; Tribeca pioneer Joseph Bilger's paintings of 1WTC; new newsstand tenant; "Sheila the Great"; Spring Street Salt Shed progress; Hudson Street pizzeria; 1WTC surprise. / 3 comments
Plus: Work finally starting at Greenwich Street rat lot; new gallery on W. Broadway; Ruum kidswear store; Church Street Tavern is indeed open; Kutsher's Tribeca; outdoor film projection question; "Eye Candy" shoot. / 4 comments
Plus: Mehtaphor closed for renovations; shameless 9/11 marketing; checking out the new Juice Press; Army recruiters shipping out; update on 49-51 Chambers conversion; kids' chalk-drawing contest; gay party.
Plus: Crumbs crumbles; the case for preserving 84 Walker; finding a beagle; Sushi Dojo expansion plans include Avenue B; World Trade Center plaza; Once Upon a Tart meeting. / 1 comment
It was long and ugly, with hot topics including a rooftop bar at the new hotel on Broadway, 60 Hudson's noise and sidewalk shed, closing a block of Varick for a day, sidewalk cafés on side streets, and more. / 3 comments
Plus: Something up at 60 Hudson?; remembering Malcolm Lloyd; sidewalk cafés for Sushi of Gari and Añejo; the museum in a freight elevator; City Winery's Hudson Square festival; Maxwell's paint job; Tribeca Meet & Greet. / 1 comment
Plus: Cherrywood Kitchen closed; Battery Park City esplanade trees; Open Kitchen in FiDi; an old Tribeca photo. / 2 comments
"Is it just a bunch of different office spaces? I was hoping that perhaps there was a conversion happening. And now there's even scaffolding up...." —M. / 2 comments
Curious to see Independence Plaza under construction? The elevated railway that ran up W. Broadway? Step right up.... And let me know if you have any photos to add. / 7 comments
Plus: Cyclist pushes for reform after Tribeca accident; Battery Park City Block Party; 27 N. Moore; the Peck Slip School's first day; model mogul.
Glad to read the clarifying comment by Judy Epstein Gage, and glad to hear David Gage will be staying in... — Marcus / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood
I grew up in a neighborhood with basement bagel, bakeries, long, narrow, bagel, ovens, bagelmeister’s, who really knew their craft.... — A. / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
In our house the cart bagels are what we call "cake bagels", barely 1 step up from Lender's frozen bagels.... — Nicole Vianna / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Unfortunately this is true about virtually every public works project in the city. Take a walk around all of the... — Reademan / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City
We went from ‘too many empty storefronts’ to ‘too many unlicensed smoke shops’ to ‘🥯🥯🥯🥯🥯🥯🥯🥯🥯’. That feels like progress to... — Jason / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
This bagel Baedeker doesn't even include the ubiquitous food carts that vend breakfast essentials, including - say it - bagels.... — Gary / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Don’t ask me how I have this connection, but I’ve spoken to the construction manager 1:1 before (he didn't know... — Upset BPC Resident / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City