Plus: Alex & Ani store on Reade confirmed; Citigroup construction noise; Rag & Bone men's store "very much in flux"; Café Altro Paradiso now serving lunch on some weekdays. / 3 comments
Plus: New app for historical photos of New York City; N. Moore wall uncovered; brand orgy on Warren; "Charlotte's Web"; 346 Broadway community space; Seaport District summer programming. / 1 comment
Plus: Politicians call on the Battery Park City Authority to allow public comment at its meetings; more on 100 Franklin; Tribeca neurosurgeon accused of sexual assault; Battery Maritime Building. / 1 comment
Plus: The Spring Street Salt Shed at night; new W. Broadway building has a funky front door; Joseph Carini Carpets collaboration with Alessandro Mendini; the first Children's Museum of the Arts kid's fair. / 1 comment
Plus: Raccoon Lodge's anniversary party; the Django jazz bar now has music earlier in the evening; Caviarteria has closed; a neat installation at Front Art Space; concrete treatments for the new building at Franklin and Sixth. / 1 comment
Plus: Chipotle looks very close to opening; a better look at the Pier 17 structure; yet another WeWork opening in the area; the disintegration of a ballerina; Farinella keeps expanding uptown. / 3 comments
The lawsuit was presumably a factor. Plus: A developer that likes brickwork; tree-planting at the World Trade Center's Liberty Park; wine lists in peril; Sushi Azabu reviewed; pipe-wielding homeless man arrested. / 1 comment
Plus: Funky new Soho building; a doggy daycare facility has closed; hope for W. Broadway trees; filmmaker Frank Miller in conversation; reading for reading awareness. / 4 comments
Discussed: High-end sushi on Franklin Street; Maman's Tribeca outpost; White Street's proposed sidewalk café; Tara of Tribeca on Warren; renaming the southernmost block of Sixth Avenue; the restaurant taking the Dean's space; more. / 2 comments
The developer wants to change the street's name. Also on CB1’s September agendas: A restaurant in the Dean's space; mysterious Franklin Street restaurant; fancy Seaport cinema; Starbucks beer/wine; another generator on 60 Hudson setback; Tara of Tribeca; more. / 3 comments
Plus: Another look at the dramatic building underway on Warren; $10 million in funding for the beleaguered South Street Seaport Museum; alleged subway groper arrested.
It's by the artist JR, who also did the black-and-white mural of the dancer at Hudson and Spring. / 1 comment
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