Plus: City to start grading street-food carts; new community space in Battery Park City; exterminator made people at the Municipal Building sick. / 1 comment
Plus: More on the efforts to extend P.S. 150's stay in Tribeca; meeting on 9/11 health effects; new buildings getting fully designed interiors; Battery Park City resiliency budget.
Plus: Truck crash on W. Broadway; Japanese restaurant changing its name; gallery returns to its former Leonard Street home; 70 Vestry's lot-line "windows"; Battery Park City parks survey results. / 4 comments
Plus: LeBron James pop-up on Franklin; secret item on the Battery Park City Authority board meeting agenda; the dome at Peck Slip is an art installation; the grimthorping of 80 Centre; Wigstock tickets start at $95; "Ray Donovan." / 10 comments
If the Anish Kapoor sculpture coming to 56 Leonard lives up to its renderings, I think it'll turn into a symbol of Tribeca. And even though it's technically private art, it got me thinking of public art over the years—and in particular, the installations that really dazzled. / 9 comments
Plus: A visit to the underground farm; students got to Skype with an astronaut about the International Space Station; BMCC president to step down after 23 years. / 8 comments
Plus: History of a Franklin Street building; HQ Trivia host lives here; flood-protection plans for North Battery Park City; more area thefts; property-tax study. / 12 comments
Fifty years ago, Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the Battery Park City Authority Act—the first step in a long process of building a neighborhood from the ground (or water) up. Historical photos show how it happened. / 4 comments
Plus: Gitano is serving a limited menu for now; Battery Park City Authority gets a second local board member; Eataly is banning plastic straws; schoolkids paint mural protesting gun violence. / 4 comments
Plus: Immersive theater piece takes place in Tribeca; Color Factory to pop up in Hudson Square; turnover at the top of the Battery Park City Authority. / 1 comment
Plus: The plan to water down Stuyvesant High School; 9/11 rescue workers can sue the Battery Park City Authority; a falcon in FiDi; actor's son beaten up by bullies. / 1 comment
Plus: Another ice cream shop; politicians push Cuomo to put locals on Battery Park City Authority board; area thefts; photos inside 3 World Trade Center.
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Would love to help. Honest question. What can we do? — Randy / What can be done about counterfeit vendors?
"Zero tolerance" is right. That requires consistent enforcement: Every time police see this happening, seize the goods, fine the vendor.... — Marcus / What can be done about counterfeit vendors?