Read about Augustine in the Tribeca Citizen Restaurant Guide.
Plus: Start dates for brunch and breakfast at Augustine; World Trade Center mall's holiday light show; Ward III doesn't look much closer to reopening; David Weeks Studio's Brooklyn sale; 101 Warren sidewalk shed. / 9 comments
Plus: A peek inside Tetsu restaurant on Leonard; Anthropologie signage; new street markings outside the Balloon Saloon; bus question; ghost sign appearing on Broadway. / 10 comments
Plus: More photos of the Gerken Building penthouse; entertaining Q&A with Augustine restaurateur; Harold's Meat + Three review; FiDi condo sues over 9/11 Tribute Center move. / 1 comment
Plus: Keith McNally on Augustine and the New York restaurant scene in general; the home/showroom of a "professional bon vivant"; signage for Sandy's high-water mark; teen robbed and beaten; Le Coucou review; school overcrowding in the forecast.
And how to reserve. Plus: Councilman wants to stop more Pier 40 air rights from being sold; 56 Leonard photo essay; proposed law to allow cyclists to use pedestrian signals instead of vehicle signals; database of buildings that should be rent-stabilized, based on tax incentives they have received. / 3 comments
Plus: Bluemercury ditched its Trump magazine cover; another peek inside Augustine; checking in on Épicerie Boulud and Joe Coffee at the World Trade Center mall; details on the ice cream truck closure; Tetsu restaurant; Duane Street parking. / 2 comments
Plus: Yves is just waiting for the gas to be turned on; Augustine's opening date; rumored raid on an ice cream truck; 67 Vestry is on the market; where to get a really good six-foot sandwich. / 2 comments
Plus: A peek inside Augustine; Municipal Building cupola tour; checking in on Ward III's progress; learn to shuck from an expert; new Broadway storefront; new lighting store.
Plus: Man stabbed on the Port Authority's Hudson River pier; Sway nightclub on Spring Street is coming back to life; Acappella opening an outpost in New Jersey.
Plus: The hoist at 56 Leonard is getting dismantled; update on Fowler & Wells and Augustine restaurants; Target advertising; Front Street fashion boutique closed. / 1 comment
One sooner, one later (and you can visit the lobby now). Plus: "Big Lebowski" spinoff shot here yesterday; big metal sidewalk box; a bunch of World Trade Center mall updates, including Épicerie Boulud, the restrooms, and three new subway entrances; Halloween pop-ups. / 6 comments
Plus: When there was a police station on Leonard; man attacked by stranger wielding a baseball bat; why chefs like to open hotel restaurants; water main break; the wine at iPic. / 1 comment
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