Plus: Questions for the Battery Park City Authority; construction worker electrocuted at Citi building; Port Authority to vote Thursday about moving the Sphere sculpture to Liberty Park; emerging artists at Governors Island.
Plus: Two more confirmed stores at the World Trade Center mall; street-inspired art at hpgrp Gallery; the huge video screens on the way to Fulton Center; Battery Park City Authority meeting.
Plus: Two Hands reservations (and soon, delivery); kids' birthday parties now available on the Lilac; traffic-measuring device on Jay; community sailing opportunities. / 2 comments
Plus: The western entrance to the Oculus; classic film screenings at the Roxy Hotel; how locals can participate in the Tunnel to Towers run; Greenwich and Laight in 1987; "The Dark Tower" with Matthew McConaughey shooting here. / 9 comments
Plus: Christina Lehr's boutique is now also part-showroom; dangerous window-washing; Battery Park City Community Day at the Stuyvesant Community Center; the retail space at W. Broadway and Worth; window repair. / 3 comments
Plus: Inside the new International Center of Photography; the Battery Park City Authority to share its study on South End Avenue; census of downtown's sidewalk objects; a really old liquor license; 9/11 Museum head stepping down.
Plus: A neat photo from inside 56 Leonard; kids' tennis clinics at Washington Market Park; weekend inspiration from the Balloon Saloon; Tribeca Blu Hotel changed its name. / 3 comments
Plus: Where to have sex in public around here; new bike rules for the Battery Park City esplanade?; good Samaritans help a guy who fell on subway tracks; gum thief threatens to shoot Duane Reade employee; new Warren condo. / 3 comments
Plus: Renovation of the 1st Precinct station house; Tracy Anderson opening a studio uptown; guitar maker Ric McCurdy. / 1 comment
Plus: Aahar Indian Cuisine is open; Pakistan Tea House took another day off; interesting wall at 110 Chambers; 2,200 signatures on petition to increase local representation at the Battery Park City Authority. / 1 comment
Plus: Zesty new brickwork at the Roxy; the Battery Park City Authority decides to pass on public commenting; one-day Alexander Hamilton exhibit; preliminary design for one of the new buildings at Chambers and Church; physical therapy facility. / 1 comment
Plus: Controversial FiDi arcade plan update; the Obamas' landlords bought on Greenwich Street; Downtown Connection funding; former NBA player Jason Williams lives here; Tiger beer pop-up.
You are absolutely right. Tribeca has become a soulless land of chain cafés, spas and orthodontists. All about Tribeca moms... — R. / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
Looking at other people = fun. Being looked at = not so fun. This is (still) a gross invasion of... — Downtown Dad Again / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
The photograph begs the question: when is that scaffolding coming down? Seems a very very long time that it has... — George Bacon / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
ITS BACK BETTER THAN EVER! BEST LOCAL PLACE FOR A DRINK AND GOOD FOOD!!! CANT WAIT FOR LUNCH!!! — AA / North Bar is closing for the summer — and will reopen as something new
Since this issue is in play again, I'll opine that the "fluid boundaries between public and private space" is an... — Gary / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
I think you would feel differently if your private moments with your children were being surveilled and photographed. People shouldn't... — Fiona / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
Truly sad. Got our son's first "Tribeca Cool Kids" clothes there 15 years ago (on sale!) and they couldn't have... — Downtown Dad Again / Koh’s Kids on Greenwich has closed