AT&T, which owns the monolithic Long Lines Building on Church, has applied to the city for a permit to develop the private lot just east of the building. / 10 comments
No more outdoor space for walking, eating, sitting, pondering. It doesn’t seem so neighborly for an urban center of space to be used for free parking and private usage. / 12 comments
I've been fortunate to get inside a lot of wonderful buildings around here, but there are still many that I'm dying to check out. Are you in a position to invite me over? / 1 comment
Plus: Joe & the Juice rumor quashed; Broadway storefront being used as an event space; additions to Community Board 1's agendas; midnight sidewalk construction; "Bull" shoot; wonderful Peter Hujar show at the Morgan Library. / 5 comments
Plus: Another sales office on Leonard; Washington Market Park's summer concert series; zoning forbids Pret's proposed sidewalk café; in the Seaport, an eyeglass store is opening and a kids' shop closed (and no sign of Van Leeuwen Ice Cream); Tom Hanks's fear of a Tribeca building. / 3 comments
Plus: Saks Fifth Avenue reviewed; Joe café to open in the World Trade Center mall next month; did City Hall lose a painting of Alexander Hamilton? / 4 comments
Know where this was shot? Prove it. / 8 comments
Plus: Pizza joint opens just north of Canal; 3 World Trade Center is starting to block 4 World Trade Center; the spray-painted sidewalk on Church; 56 Leonard curtain wall; new Greenwich Street condo is above ground-level. / 1 comment
Plus: AT&T Long Lines plaza used for parking; Duane Reade gets a new storefront; Imperial Coffee House's temporary closing (and likely fate); cork recycling. / 4 comments
Plus: Strange white thing atop the AT&T Long Lines Building; Cary Building scaffolding; Pearl River Mart tea balcony and fart bombs; Albany Street Plaza; Franklin Place; Taymour Grahne exhibit; 2 Renwick; James Ellroy. / 5 comments
SW -- I have written extensively about "micromobility" harms. I have called for reforms that could help "powered" bikes and... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Looking forward to them opening, but still laughing at the idea that they are going to put seats in that... — N / Update: Carnegie Diner at 200 Chambers
I don't know what the legal speed on Chambers is, But the cameras do not trigger unless one is going... — Sandy / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Komanoff: “Driving and drivers are by far and away the bigger threat” when compared to bikes and e-bikes? I’m aware... — SW / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Thanks for article...such a ugly site walking out the front door...and wondering when it will end!!! — Vivian / Nosy Neighbor: What’s going on in the construction yard on Harrison?
Any updates on this one? — P / Carnegie Diner and Cafe plans approved for 200 Chambers
I reposted because it illustrated their more recent story about the NYPD refusing to share information. And yes, the problem... — Tribeca Citizen / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses