Plus: 30 Park Place concrete paneling; July 4 festival details; Seaport food-truck agita; Shipley & Halmos sample sale; 3 World Trade Center update; 50 West renderings. / 4 comments
In my opinion, the demilitarization of the WTC zone is far more momentous than the opening of the 9/11 Museum, because it's the second major step—after the creation of the plaza—in bringing the area back to life. / 5 comments
Plus: 9/11 Memorial fences to mostly come down soon; Soho Rep gets a rave; costume designer owes the IRS; Greenwich Street green thumbs; SoulCycle's bad karma; responders' memorial. / 6 comments
(Part of it. Maybe.) Plus: Maison Ladurée opening date; motorcycle showroom on Sixth Ave.
Plus: 9/11 Museum faces funding issues; Seaport town hall recap; Max opening in Williamsburg.
Plus: Community evening at the 9/11 Memorial; Hudson Street Reconstruction end date; Racines NY in demolition; more on World of Suits and 15 Warren. / 2 comments
Plus: Élan Flowers has moved; rumored tenant for a Tribeca landmark; Los Americanos delivery; community night at the 9/11 Memorial; gallery gone; the NYPD's response about Pier 26 noise complaints.
Look away if you can. Plus: Bill's Bar & Burger; new fitness club in FiDi; Liberty Luxe and Liberty Green embrace the pug; 9/11 Memorial event for kids; the most fun you can have in a jar? / 2 comments
Plus: Where's the Pier 40 effort?; new Mexican restaurant in FiDi; 9/11 Memorial trees; a Tribecan's Tribeca. / 1 comment
Plus: Museum moving forward again; museum and memorial costs; inside 4 World Trade Center; Battery Park City pharmacist; 60 Warren penthouse; Corton pastry chef leaves; Church and Franklin.
"It was important that our store be on Franklin Street," says designer Joy Gryson. "I've always loved shopping at Steven Alan and Bu & the Duck, and when Bu & the Duck left...." The grand opening party is Thursday night. / 2 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