Plus: Community Board 1 votes against four street fairs (but allows its own); film attendance is down at the Tribeca Film Festival; hope for two-way tolls on the Verrazano Bridge; the life of a food-cart vendor. / 16 comments
Plus: Work in the former Almond restaurant space; Artists & Fleas opening a 10,000-square-foot Soho store; illegal intercity bus activity; World Trade Center pedestrian plaza; no Community Board 1 recap.
Chinatown residents have persuaded the NYPD's 5th Precinct to do something about the pervasive problem. But is the solution replicable here? / 6 comments
Plus: The candidates vying for Margaret Chin's City Council seat; the pros and cons of film/TV shoots.
Plus: Five Boro Bike Tour notices; book swap at Torly Kid; Billy Bragg in concert; 1 Beekman is rising above street level; Chinese restaurant seeks beer-and-wine license.
Plus: Photos of the new Nobu in FiDi; renovation at Lower Manhattan's only hospital; Canal Street topper approved; Tribeca Ball photos; antiques at Gary Graham; top daiquiri; CB1 feeling ignored by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. / 5 comments
The New York State Liquor Authority has revoked Panagiotis Kotsonis's liquor license for Remix, the club at 27 Park Place that has long antagonized neighbors (most recently by hosting an illegal strip club). / 3 comments
Also on Community Board 1's April agendas: A second try for the Roc space; beer-and-wine license for the Truffles convenience store; Khe-Yo sidewalk seating; changing the direction of Beaver Street; new windows on Worth Street; much more. / 4 comments
Plus: Clarification from David Bouley; Community Board 1 street fair on Warren Street; 21-foot-long photo at Soho Photo; psychic setting up shop on Franklin. / 14 comments
A reader wrote in asking how we might get the Department of Sanitation to keep the neighborhood cleaner—in particular, can anything be done about the overflowing garbage cans on every corner? Plus: Depressing info on the mountains of trash bags lining so many sidewalks. / 17 comments
Plus: "Fearless Girl" extended; three-car accident at West and Murray; the city's first new ferry got stuck in Florida; By Chloe's chef has left the company; the Battery Park City Authority's bond rating. / 5 comments
Plus: More promises about noise reduction from the Five Boro Bike Tour organizers; demolition at the former New York Sports Club; menus for Blue Ribbon Federal Grill and the Roxy's oyster bar; Worth Street traffic mess; Walgreens is subletting. / 3 comments
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so, no RIOTS or claims of a “rigged election”; is that the point? 🤔 — baba galacticus / It’s quiet out there
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Every time an expensive restaurant opens up in Tribeca this website is deluged with comments from people bemoaning the lack... — Thomas Hagen / Upon the Palace has opened
I miss sending faxes instead of email. — Thomas Hagen / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
I despise Hobby Lobby and there will be no mention of it on FiDi Fan Page. I'm hoping it fails... — LV / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?