Plus: Big Gay Ice Cream is opening in the Seaport District; when a clown school was on Chambers; the Battery Park City Authority's resiliency study; remembering David Rockefeller. / 1 comment
Recent incidents shared by residents involve spitting, throwing objects at kids, picking fights, harassing families, even wielding a fake gun—and the alleged perpetrators include a gang that calls itself Tribeca's Most Wanted. UPDATE: And the reports of incidents keep coming in. / 76 comments
Plus: A pretty renovation on Canal Street; Over the Rhine playing City Winery; a salon shifts downmarket; Battery Park City's new garbage cans.
Plus: Overhaul planned for some Pace University buildings; Greenwich Street townhouse now being marketed as a rental; half a window.
Plus: The history of a Franklin Street building; 70 Vestry penthouse in contract; photos of 30 Park Place penthouse; new CFO at the Battery Park City Authority; review of Paul's Casablanca nightclub on Spring.
Plus: Brookfield Properties chooses Cuomo friend's company to run the North Cove Marina sailing school; 111 Murray passes halfway point; Starbucks to end its beer-and-wine program.
Plus: Neat photo from 1914; North Cove Marina update; Fowler & Wells now serving weekday lunch; hat stolen off man's head; metal debris crashes into hotel window; Alexander Hamilton Tavern opening in FiDi; Best Western in the Seaport has closed. / 3 comments
Plus: How public commenting went at the Battery Park City Authority; Zucker's is about to open its third outpost; the effects of no-tipping policies; tunnel repair to affect 2/3 train service. / 12 comments
Plus: Colin Kaepernick denies real-estate rumor; Battery Park City building to have its own fleet of BMW rental cars; a dishwasher with ambition at Nobu Next Door; Battery Park City Authority CFO steps down.
Plus: Downtown Alliance's founding chairman, Robert Douglass, has died; night-vision cameras at Battery Park City ball fields; pop-up caviar restaurant; Gateway plaza tenants accuse landlord of fraud; Larry Silverstein is moving downtown. / 2 comments
Plus: Renderings of the West Thames bridge now under construction; auto-service advice; the top of 19 Park Place; photographer Alexey Titarenko. / 4 comments
Plus: Whale spotted near Liberty Island; reviewing proposed changes to Wagner Park; Battery Park City Authority needs to find a new sailing school for North Cove Marina; more thefts and a ticket seller gets beaten with a cane.
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