Plus: Using 460 Washington to explain the 421-a tax abatement; Howard Hughes's new Seaport District plan (also, it bought the Peck Slip Best Western); Trinity Church ticked off an artist by moving his sculpture; Rector bridge elevator semi-fixed; shoplifters steal gum, threaten stabbing; Woolworth Building in Harry Potter spin-off. / 6 comments
Plus: Howard Hughes says no tower will be built on the New Market Building site; Arcade Bakery's s'mores Danish; opening forecast for Tetsu; SoulCycle bike stolen; another likely Broadway conversion; Best Made founder's Catskills cabin; the FiDi Dean & DeLuca might have a restaurant; Red Bull theft goes awry. / 2 comments
As a follow-up to the recent post about World Trade Center retail, let's take a look at what's coming to the Seaport District, as the South Street Seaport has been rebranded. The movie theater alone is reason for excitement. / 5 comments
Plus: Pier 17 approved by LPC; Ritz-Carlton residents fear change; 100 Barclay retail; West Thames Park turf delayed; Liberty Street Bridge completion date; hotel guests steal other guests' bags; big box stores in the Seaport? / 3 comments
Plus: More details on the 70-story building coming to Park Place; the Howard Hughes Corporation ditches its plan for a glass canopy on Pier 17; more of the World Trade Center PATH station to open next week.
Plus: Ignacio Mattos opening an all-day Italian restaurant at Spring and Sixth; Harold's Meat & Three will be the restaurant at the Tommie Hotel; an aversion to Evacuation Day; the history of Washington Market Park; Pier 17 event rendering; progress at St. Nicholas church. / 1 comment
There will be a seafood-themed marketplace in the Tin Building and a 10,000-square-foot restaurant in Pier 17.
Plus: How to make Grazin's lamb burger; rooms at the Tommie Hotel at Hudson and Canal will be teensy; NYC film commissioner resigns; Battery Bikeway accused of being made with Canadian benches.
Plus: Ed Burns on shooting in Tribeca; more development on Fulton (including the loss of a funky little building); New York Times Real Estate section on living in FiDi; remembering Captain John Doswell. / 6 comments
Plus: 3 World Trade Center is halfway to its final height; a very pretty Tribeca rooftop garden; Howard Hughes Corporation sells two adjacent Seaport lots.
Plus: Schimmel Center at Pace University's 2015-2016 schedule; South Street Seaport starts a "Cultural District"; rendering for new school up on Greenwich; shoots for "Broad City" and a production company. / 2 comments
Plus: Downtown services lag behind population growth; female impersonators attempt theft; White Street renovations; West and Chambers in 1936; midcentury Jewish designers; Planned Parenthood moving to FiDi; teenagers attack newsstand owner; Seaport tower.
The photograph begs the question: when is that scaffolding coming down? Seems a very very long time that it has... — George Bacon / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
ITS BACK BETTER THAN EVER! BEST LOCAL PLACE FOR A DRINK AND GOOD FOOD!!! CANT WAIT FOR LUNCH!!! — AA / North Bar is closing for the summer — and will reopen as something new
Since this issue is in play again, I'll opine that the "fluid boundaries between public and private space" is an... — Gary / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
I think you would feel differently if your private moments with your children were being surveilled and photographed. People shouldn't... — Fiona / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
Truly sad. Got our son's first "Tribeca Cool Kids" clothes there 15 years ago (on sale!) and they couldn't have... — Downtown Dad Again / Koh’s Kids on Greenwich has closed
The graffiti in question looks very similar to the same outside of Target (on the never-ending construction barriers) which questioned... — Downtown Dad Again / Tribeca-branded graffiti on West Broadway
Our apartment was inside the "frozen zone" and when we were finally able to return to it in mid-October, I... — Makes You Go Hmmmm.... / A documentary honors the work of the Sanitation Department after 9/11