Plus: Broadway conversion loses hotel component; Soho bar to close; possible 3 World Trade Center deal; Seaport distress; new FiDi chicken restaurant; New York Police Museum.
Plus: Get an early look at Grand Banks boat bar; proposed Leonard storefront redesign; "Magical Moments of Ballet!"; Terra uncovered and looking good.
Discussed last night: Hudson River Park and its boat bar, the Pier 26 restaurant and estuarium, and Pier 40 decay; sidewalk cafés at Telepan Local, Tablao, and Maxwell's; rooftop liquor for the new Broadway hotel; more. / 3 comments
Plus: Seaport meeting postponed; another Sweetgreen; Café Noir signage; pop-up plaza at Finn Square; Quiznos is reopening; Crunch's "Tribeca" gym. / 9 comments
Also on June’s Community Board 1 agendas: The new hotel that wants a rooftop bar; the Pier 40 air rights deal; Pier 26 construction; South Street Seaport development; tour buses; 87 Leonard; and much more. / 7 comments
Plus: 30 Park Place concrete paneling; July 4 festival details; Seaport food-truck agita; Shipley & Halmos sample sale; 3 World Trade Center update; 50 West renderings. / 4 comments
Residents persuaded the owners to limit the use of the Murray Street entrance. Plus: There will be pizza.
It was long and ugly, with hot topics including a rooftop bar at the new hotel on Broadway, 60 Hudson's noise and sidewalk shed, closing a block of Varick for a day, sidewalk cafés on side streets, and more. / 3 comments
Plus: Something up at 60 Hudson?; remembering Malcolm Lloyd; sidewalk cafés for Sushi of Gari and Añejo; the museum in a freight elevator; City Winery's Hudson Square festival; Maxwell's paint job; Tribeca Meet & Greet. / 1 comment
Also on May’s Community Board 1 agendas: Another hearing on the Barleycorn bar on Park Place and Murray; Gay Pride dance noise; Church Publick sidewalk seating; more. / 2 comments
Plus: Manhole fire; East River Ferry fare increase; Barleycorn's raison d'être; Seaport hotel; putting the shaft to affordable housing tenants; new members for Community Board 1.
What the owner has neglected to mention to CB1 or neighbors: The plans include outdoor seating on the roof. And live performance on the ground floor. (NOTE: THIS POST HAS BEEN CORRECTED)
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