It looks like there's a ghost kitchen setup on the empty lot. Plus Todd Stone has a show at and of the World Trade Center; professional development at LMHQ, art on the streets.
Fumes and noise from what looks like is a last-mile Fresh Direct delivery business in an empty lot are driving neighbors and local businesses nuts. But it may all be legal. / 14 comments
Also on Community Board 1's March agendas: The proposed Hudson River Park tax; Fresh Direct's ever-present trucks; public art in Tribeca Park; Bogardus Plaza; 502 Canal; a big Broadway cultural project; and more. / 1 comment
Discussed: More details (including the menu) at the wine bar coming to W. Broadway; a new "back bar" at the Tribeca Grand; an explanation for Capri Caffé's name change; Fresh Direct trucks; and sidewalk café clarification. / 9 comments
Plus: Another phone store; pig owner; Fresh Direct's parking spot; more on 28 N. Moore; Soho Photo exhibit; contemporary art lollapalooza; 460 Washington demo. / 6 comments
Plus: Fresh Direct to try out delivering by bike; Sheldon Silver regrets; Whole Foods Tribeca's new restaurant; Gateway Plaza ditches anti-pet plan; designing dog runs. / 3 comments
It's that time of the month again! Discussed: Masa Takayama's new restaurant, Tetsu (read the menu!); the prepared-food shop coming to Warren (another menu); Fresh Direct complaints; a possible newsstand; and more.
Eliz, I tried to make clear my disgust and disdain for placard abuse. I validated your outrage at the top... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
https://tribecacitizen.com/2026/06/17/icymi-the-speed-limit-is-now-20-mph/ — Tribeca Citizen / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Ah yes, the city was given permission to lower limits, I just didn't know that Chambers had gotten the treatment... — malcolm / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
If free and easy on-street parking isn't compatible with lower Manhattan, then why is it available to city workers? The... — Elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Apparently the speed limit is now 20. No one would ever know that since the street is usually backed up... — elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Sorry, your lone justifiable outrage IMO is that cops, firemen, court officers and other apparatchiks get free parking spaces. We... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Don't the speed cameras only kick in at 11mph over? So wouldn't that mean at least 36mph? — malcolm / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses