Read about City Hall restaurant in the Tribeca Citizen Restaurant Guide.
Plus: Ice keeps falling off World Trade Center buildings; City Hall restaurant building sold; a week of Brookfield Place jackhammering; police blotter.
"My best Tribeca story involves making clay Mr. Bills all night for Saturday Night Live," says Mommy Poppins founder Anna Fader. / 6 comments
Plus: Box Kite Coffee end date; American Thread analysis; Independence Plaza recap; the scene at City Hall restaurant. / 4 comments
What was discussed last night: Swing dancing at Duane Park, sidewalk cafés at Petrarca and City Hall, the New York Academy of Art, and codifying what the committee tends to find acceptable regarding liquor-license applications. / 1 comment
Also on Community Board 1's May agendas: Liquor license for Denny's; P.S. 150's proposed move; Hamptons export Tutto Il Giorno; Upper East Side export Gina La Fornarina; 60 Collister rooftop pergolas; Downtown Connection; sexy shoeshines.
In which we discuss the genesis of his novel, whether Tribecans are stoned and having sex, Lena Dunham's work ethic, the Tribeca brand, and the neighborhood's shift from bohemian to bourgeois, and more. / 2 comments
New renderings. Plus: City Hall restaurant and minimum wage; church hopes to keep using school.
Plus: 9/11 Memorial shortfall; inside a sale at 34 Laight; photo show at the "Lilac" ship at Pier 25; theater review; restaurant designer Larry Bogdanow; Rector Square payback; Winter Garden arts programming; Soul Daddy; smoking in BPC. / 1 comment
What was discussed: A kosher conveyor-belt sushi restaurant; shortening the Hudson Street construction (and whether the work zone should be moved to N. Moore); reversing part of Beach Street; alternate-side parking. / 3 comments
Plus: Jon Stewart saves the day; Tribecans who eat; Pace's new building; Riedel scion; Otto Penzler; 9/11 museum; Corton; bank robbery arrest; restaurant roundups; author Helen Simonson; "Nutcracker" blues; Seaport may sell a boat.
Longtime kids'-party planner Party Poopers has spun off Party Swank, a division for adults' events. Its founders have the best Rolodexes ever: Broadway singers, belly dancers, mentalists, tarot readers, pole dancers, and more. / 10 comments
If the thought were the only thing that mattered, you wouldn't have to buy a gift at all, would you?
James! Thank you ! I love the photo. — Native NYer / Upon the Palace has opened
So by extension, ill will toward the future employees of Hobby Lobby? — Bobbie / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Smartphones and doom scrolling has sucked the life out of our kids. Sometimes you need reminders like this to really... — hmmm / Capturing the lives of Tribeca youth before smartphones took hold
How many times, on a summer afternoon, did I sit on the doorsill at Dudley's Paw with Dudley beside me.... — John Willenbecher / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Yum yum. Looking forward to going here! — SW / Upon the Palace has opened
Yes!!!! My lady and I have been BEGGING for one of these!!!! — Jack Gaff / Chambers Street Wines is opening a wine bar on… Chambers
so, no RIOTS or claims of a “rigged election”; is that the point? 🤔 — baba galacticus / It’s quiet out there