Plus a silent film set to live music TONIGHT at the Winter Garden; Opening Ceremony in Soho to close; 91 Leonard is fully revealed; a lecture on Democratic Socialists at the Seaport. / 1 comment
Plus The Times on the Howard Hughes mercury-laden site; 91 Leonard wraps up; a memorial planned in BPC for victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico; a bike storage pod calls it quits.
Plus: Praise for Cortlandt Way; Bouley Botanical is still an event space; checking in on Cast Iron House's sidewalk; great photo looking up. / 1 comment
Plus: Newsstand light pollution; more of 91 Leonard has been revealed; Japanese ceramics store on Crosby; making the best of a sidewalk-shed situation. / 3 comments
Plus: The menu for Whitmans burger restaurant; something moving into the old Subway sandwich shop on Hudson; more on the three-day Smorgasburg at the Oculus; more of 91 Leonard revealed; Canal Street art mural. / 1 comment
Plus: Is something up with the J. Crew Liquor Store?; three trees at Bogardus Plaza to be removed this week; ironic signage at the World Trade Center; "Blue Bloods" shoot. / 1 comment
Plus: New line of cannabis products from Bubby's owner Ron Silver; new buildings with fancy lobby lighting; Terra owners settle with former employees who started a similar restaurant in Chicago; Pier 25 and 26 air rights. / 1 comment
Plus: Sweaty Betty closed its Soho store; Arcade Bakery is closed Mondays for the summer; a first visit to Vietspot; a suggestion for 91 Leonard.
It can be hard to keep track of all of the new buildings under construction in Tribeca. This should help: renderings for the projects where work is currently happening. / 9 comments
Plus: Suitsupply for women opens this week; 91 Leonard developer sells majority stake; questions for the Battery Park City Authority; paintings of libraries.
Designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Hill West, the 19-story building is meant to "reinterpret the classically inspired facades of Tribeca's cast-iron warehouses and lofts." / 6 comments
Plus: Activity reported at dormant hotel site in northwest Tribeca; R & Company's pop-up exhibit of art carpets; 91 Leonard started getting windows; a doorman's parking privilege. / 1 comment
Who decided on that temporary “park”… I can guarantee you not the residents who live down here. We have turf... — Sam / The latest on Wagner Park, under construction now
Do they plan to bring in fully mature and well grown trees? If not it will take years and years... — Anon / The latest on Wagner Park, under construction now
As of today - June 4 - all of the trees are gone. They ripped everything out to the street…... — Anon / Seen & Heard: A view of the Wagner demolition
It's quite unseemly. — Marcus / Seen & Heard: Dine Around Downtown on Tuesday
No - as I said, it's seams. You can see them. — Tribeca Citizen / Seen & Heard: Dine Around Downtown on Tuesday
What is that stain on the sculpture by the ladder? — Marcus / Seen & Heard: Dine Around Downtown on Tuesday
so thrilled to see this! i’ve missed cafe clementine so much!! congrats to the new owners- so grateful they didn’t... — jen / Old Kid on a New Block: Cafe Clementine