The owner of several Broadway buildings that still rent to creative types invited me over to look around—I got new views of Franklin Place, the 84 White penthouse, and Cortlandt Alley, and I learned how those great old Tribeca fire doors worked. / 1 comment
You know how you can't keep track of all the new buildings sprouting up? I walked and Citi Biked around the neighborhood so we'd have an up-to-date sense of what's happening where—shamelessly peeping through holes when necessary.
Plus: Forgione's Laotian restaurant opening soon; Governors Island carousel; Franklin Place sales; Collect Pond's history; FiDi street style; East River esplanade; 7-Eleven opens. / 2 comments
Including an architectural model with a much better sense of what the entrance, façade, pool deck, and overall shape will look like. Plus: More than a third of the units are already in contract.
Eight conversions are currently underway, bringing nearly 500 new residential units to the six-block stretch between Canal and Worth—and that doesn't even include the site that's rumored to be making way for a 14-story condo. / 3 comments
Plus: Desayuno and almuerzo at Los Americanos; sandwich shop reopens; Citigroup plaza changes?; film shoot; Blumberg's moved; 17 Harrison; Loopy Doopy reopens; Gateway Plaza bike-rack protest; Tribeca Park sculpture; Franklin Place sales office; Walker break-ins. / 3 comments
Plus: New sailing program; Franklin Place sales office; Benares lunch review; book publisher.
Plus: Rape suspect arrested; 11 N. Moore (and Franklin Place); will 92YTribeca have to return grant money?; Jacques Capsouto and Citi Bike. / 3 comments
Including a view of 84 White; progress at Franklin Place; TOAST gallery (with water tower show); bookstore moving; Organic Modernism; Collect Pond Park; Walker office moving?; Broadway and Duane. Plus: Moving sale; Gina La Fornarina; Brookfield food. / 4 comments
It's dark. Plus: The future of two historic Seaport buildings; real estate in "Eastern Tribeca"; Downtown Hospital CEO resigns; new design for W. Thames bridge.
Architect and designer announced. Plus: 93 Worth amenity; Barbarini update; Soho Photo street-photography exhibit; wayfinding signage; artist Brad Greenwood; Valentine's Day photo. / 1 comment
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