Plus: A distinctive new façade on Renwick; banjoist concert; Le District now offers grocery delivery; a conversation with schools chancellor Carmen Fariña; Puma moves south. / 5 comments
A restaurant and a gallery. Plus: Clarification from BMCC about which parts are public; Taco House is now serving Chinese food; a musical "Alice in Wonderland." / 10 comments
Plus: "Highlights in Jazz" concert tonight; replacement patches for your Canada Goose jacket; Nexxus rep insists that the N. Moore salon is open to the public; reader seeks rehearsal dinner suggestions. / 5 comments
Plus: Citi has started chopping down the trees in its plaza; former pro basketball players are running a winter clinic for kids; Tribeca Meet & Greet is Wednesday; Regent Cocktail Club appears not to be happening in the former Naked Lunch space; a night of pole dancing and poetry.
Plus: New FiDi neighborhood association; the Howard Hughes Corporation responds to the Friends of the South Street Seaport letter; "Henry & Mudge" and "Alice in Wonderland"; 1st Precinct Community Council meeting.
Plus: Monsters on Lispenard; Good Stock launches office delivery; progress at the Flea's new theater; phone store closing; jazz contest winners in concert; street-photography exhibit. / 1 comment
Discussed at last night's meeting: Citigroup's renovation, both the noise and how it involves cutting down 32 trees; Sweetgreen's sidewalk seating; mariachis at Mariachi's new space; temporary sculpture at Finn Square; the Flea's new theater; Pier 26; Downtown Boathouse; and the Tribeca Meet & Greet.
Plus: New fleet of Downtown Connection shuttles; a peek inside the Two Hands restaurant; Bikini Bar building to likely get converted; Tribeca Meet & Greet on Wednesday; Brooklyn Barge Bar drops by; "Whip/Nae Nae" rapper at Downtown Dance Factory; "Where in Tribeca...?" still unsolved. / 6 comments
Plus: Funky new Soho building; a doggy daycare facility has closed; hope for W. Broadway trees; filmmaker Frank Miller in conversation; reading for reading awareness. / 4 comments
Plus: Harley-Davidson of NYC's use of a public plaza; Bogardus Garden's fall event; "Law & Order" is back; work starting on FiDi tower's horns; "Berenstain Bears, the Musical"; a pretty bit of W. Broadway animation. / 20 comments
Plus: Tribeca Meet & Greet and a chance to see inside a fabulous Art Deco lobby; Mouthfeel magazine issue-release party; Gloria Steinem at City Winery; Pen Parentis's next lineup. / 1 comment
Plus: Bottega Veneta at Brookfield Place; classic cinema at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center; Mini NYC shoot this weekend; sublet request.
May he rest with the angels. — Native / Peter Bianco, who loved his wife, his family and his adopted neighborhood, has died at 51
What a lovely piece about a lovely person. Thanks so much. — Bob / Peter Bianco, who loved his wife, his family and his adopted neighborhood, has died at 51
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