Plus: Department of Buildings paperwork for space rumored to be a Bloomingdale's; Gee Whiz Diner reopens today; Liberty Park's garden wall; key World Trade Center corridor closer to opening; Fulton hotel rendering; Hudson Street in 2004. / 1 comment
And another store closed. Plus: Friends of Duane Park's annual Neighbors Night; Pakistan Tea House update; volleyball tournament this weekend; more poor parking by the 1st Precinct; the Four Seasons hotel's plaza. / 7 comments
Plus: The Tommie hotel gets unbranded; a bill in Albany proposes to remove size restrictions on new buildings; Taylor Swift is subletting in the West Village; Scoop is kaput. / 7 comments
Plus: Pakistan Tea House is a bit unsteady; the musical swings at Brookfield Place; the name of Ichimura's forthcoming restaurant; Joe Coffee at the new Cadillac showroom.
Plus: The sleazy Lower Manhattan real estate deal that kept many buildings from being rent-stabilized; 9/11 Museum trying to woo resistant locals; new Austrian restaurant opens in FiDi. / 3 comments
Plus: Four Seasons debut pushed back; Pure Barre is opening soon; 56 Leonard closings have begun; W. Broadway storefront finally revealed. / 2 comments
Coming up at Brookfield Place. Plus: Graffiti Earth restaurant opening pushed back a week; Soho home decor store Aero is moving uptown; pedestrian passageways at construction sites; Miss Paradis lounge. / 2 comments
Plus: Tribeca Trust's "jazz funeral" for south Tribeca; high-end housing slump in Lower Manhattan?; opening dates for Governors Island and its new hills; learning to do a handstand; fire below ground; John Watts statue; Paulie Gee's pizza. / 2 comments
Amada, the big new Spanish restaurant in Brookfield Place, arrives with high expectations, thanks to chef Jose Garces's James Beard Award and "Iron Chef" status. So how is it? / 2 comments
Here's the menu. Plus: Kitchens at 70 Vestry will have four ovens (and many will have two washing machines); results of a survey of people who hire nannies; Houseman's kitchen-swap with a Savannah restaurant; man pulled from car and attacked. / 1 comment
Plus: Proposal to tax developers to fund schools; finding takers for the Liberty Street bridge panels damaged in 9/11; woman attacked at Growler Bar; motorcycles stolen.
Suzanne - and for the historical record - I just asked a family member who is older and has also... — Elizabeth / Don’t panic: Gee Whiz is renovating
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