Plus lots of news in Fidi: Justino's open on Fulton; Blue Bottle to open soon; Elysium Health to open in WTC; Primp NYC open on Beekman; Purim parties for this week.
Plus: Blue Bottle's Hudson Square café is open; Sola Lab opens next week; first rendering for the new building at 77 Charlton; a hearing about property tax increases. / 14 comments
It'll be the company's third location in this area, along with the outpost at 4 World Trade Center and the forthcoming one at the Walker Hotel Tribeca.
Plus: Y7 Studio's opening forecast; update on Blue Bottle opening in the Walker Hotel Tribeca; people who bring coffee into restaurants; is Saks Off 5th still opening downtown? / 4 comments
The hotel under conversion at Broadway and Walker finally has a name—Walker Hotel Tribeca—and eyebrow-raising plans, including a 4 a.m. liquor license, roof deck and, in the below-ground levels, DJs and amplified live music. / 4 comments
Plus: Rag & Bone anniversary sale; the southern Oculus plaza at the World Trade Center; Cortlandt Way is out from under the sidewalk shed; Blue Bottle across from the 9/11 Memorial. / 3 comments
Plus: The sidewalk shed at Independence Plaza; fireworks tonight; Tunnel to Towers run is this weekend; Newark airport buses now leaving from Hudson Square; feminist kitsch at R & Company. / 5 comments
Plus: Opening forecasts for Blue Bottle's two Lower Manhattan cafés; actress Diane Kruger bought here; actress La La Anthony lives here; court victory for anti-porn zoning; beautifying the area around the New York Stock Exchange; Ritz-Carlton penthouse to be auctioned in Hong Kong.
Plus: Anti-development street art outside 443 Greenwich; great old trees cut down; location confirmed for Espasso's second Tribeca shop; two more World Trade Center mall stores have opened; Fiftytwo sample sale. / 2 comments
There has been a lot of depressing news lately, and we likely haven't heard the last of it, so let's focus on the positive (for one post, anyway). Here are 11 things to look forward to in Lower Manhattan in coming months. / 4 comments
Plus: Renderings of the Broadway hotel and its Blue Bottle café; the first public meeting of the Tribeca Alliance; Casey Neistat tests rocket shoes and takes on the Harley-Davidson dealership; comparing 3 and 4 World Trade Center; first look at what might be included at Trinity Church's new FiDi tower.
Plus: Slice joint becomes half burger joint; activity at a Broadway storefront; hotel conversion demolition update; Joan Osborne at City Winery.
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