Plus: Soccer film festival; Pier 26 boathouse update; Canal Street building.
Plus: The view from atop 1 World Trade Center; is Park51 moving?; PATH platform critique; Well + Good profile; Battery Park City's cold war; Hotel Particulier pop-up gallery; no school "collocation."
"For more than two years, our windows have been obstructed by the sidewalk shed accompanying the construction of 37 Warren. Do you have any information about the shed or could you direct me to the proper agency to complain to?" —L. / 4 comments
Also on March’s Community Board 1 agendas: Spring Studios to do some explaining; Hampton Jitney (expansion?); mysterious Megu liquor-license issue; and more.
Plus: Shabby behavior at Independent Plaza North; the history of 5 Beekman; inside Soho's new Smith & Mills sister restaurant; Greenhouse bottle fight; opposing diesel generator atop Sixth Avenue landmark.
Plus: Denny's liquor license approved; 19th-century douche found at City Hall; $31,000 in cash stolen from van on W. Broadway; Flea theater rendering; Woolworth Building's old neighbors. / 7 comments
Plus: Urban Outfitters opened today on Broadway; Community Board 1 Landmarks Committee rescheduled; pop-up gallery on Laight.
Thanks to a Super Bowl party that violated many of the stipulations that Community Board 1 had insisted on in order for Spring to get its liquor license. / 2 comments
Plus: Drama at the UPS Store; dates for the Tribeca Family Festival and Cercle Rouge's Bastille Day party; crane switcheroo at 56 Leonard. / 3 comments
Plus: Racines NY menu; haunted house for Valentine's Day; Wichcraft redo; Urban Outfitters opening date; any volunteers to attend CB1 Tribeca meeting? No?
Plus: Checking in on 56 Leonard; Tutto il Giorno progress report; 1 World Trade Center's spire; FiDi construction report. / 2 comments
Also on February’s Community Board 1 agendas: The NYPD stables that used to be on Varick; Spring Studios; the blight that is Denny's; Lispenard landmark; a million street-activity and street-fair permits; more. / 2 comments
For the record, I'm one of your readers who supports ICE and the work they do enforcing our nation's laws.... — Will M / Nosy Neighbor: What’s going on along Broadway south of Worth?
If you think LA has skid row bc of a housing shortage you’re as blind as you are ignorant. — Matt / Encampment set up on Park Row and Beekman
I think you will like the New Confederacy more personally. It's warmer and they are more prone to locking folks... — Michael T / Encampment set up on Park Row and Beekman
No way, Seattle fell? When did that happen. They really held out for quite a while. Was it the zombie... — Michael T / Encampment set up on Park Row and Beekman
There was an "encamper" who set up near the Link kiosk on the east side of Church Street near Duane.... — Gary / Encampment set up on Park Row and Beekman
It's too bad. That space would probably succeed as a year-round (or inclement-weather-situation) music venue connected to the pier 17... — jfrankp / Catching Up with New Kids: Balloon Museum
Walked by this morning, it’s no longer there — K / Encampment set up on Park Row and Beekman