The top-secret al fresco banquet for 5500 turned up in Battery Park City last night, with each and every guest dressed in white.
Plus: Last night's Dîner en Blanc; film-shoot detritus on Franklin; Jenga-playing monster; Café Forgot pop-up to serve food and wine. / 1 comment
Plus: The State Liquor Authority hearing about Buddha Bar; Dîner en Blanc was in Wagner Park last night; Mmuseumm is throwing a birthday party for a Japanese inventor; "Law & Order: SVU." / 1 comment
Plus: Diner en Blanc was indeed on Pier 26; Arcade Bakery's summer vacation; Urban Archaeology's imminent closing; Modell's has moved (and isn't combining); new intake at Seaport Studios; 2015 tree census.
Plus: Foot pedals for solar-powered garbage cans; FiDi's Chopping Block has closed; the Museum of Jewish Heritage looks at Nazi persecution of gays; Staple Street fashion shoots. / 4 comments
About 4,000 people dressed in white descended on Rockefeller Park for dinner accompanied by opera. / 7 comments
Plus: Stuyvesant vigil OKed; marriage proposal at Diner en Blanc; 195 Hudson loft sale; more info on Jung Sik, Kutsher's Tribeca, and Atera; nursery robbed; predictions about downtown in 2021. / 1 comment
Plus: Pret opens with free sandwiches; guide to 9/11 arts events; steam killing trees on Greenwich and Warren; surprise dinner party pops up outside the WFC.
As I see it, it all matters. A civilized city should have good solutions to all of these issues. — Marcus / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
With Paper Source now closed inside Maman, where are people buying greeting cards/wrapping paper locally? (I want to avoid Hobby... — Sara / Seen & Heard: Maman is back open
I prefer the stickers to homeless, junkies, and excrement from dogs or humans. Focus on what matters maybe? — Thomas / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
Agreed about the sidewalk stickers, along with the painted on / sprayed on sidewalk ads and "clever" saying. Also, what... — Marcus / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
Those sidewalk stickers are a new out of home ad treatment; they are everywhere, they are hideous and yes, they... — nichole / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
I love this interview. What that NC senatorial candidate said about Morris -- that he captured her voice uniquely well... — Komanoff / TCQ&A: Morris Katz
a reminder to parents and care givers: Duane Park Patisserie gives homemade treats to trick or treaters from toddlers through... — madeline c lanciani / Halloween in Washington Market Park — and more to come