Plus: A meadow in Battery Park City; update on Houseman restaurant; emerging designers at the Seaport; report on jazz concert at David Gage String Instruments; 1st Precinct meeting. / 6 comments
It could be taller than 1 World Trade Center. Plus: Opposition to an American Flatbread event space; "Soft Spin" at Brookfield Place; affordable housing update; demolition photo. / 5 comments
Plus: Battery Park City resident found dead; Balducci's rumor; Howard Hughes Corporation asks for after-the-fact demolition permission; downtown gets storm protection funding; visiting the loft of Isabel Rose.
Plus: Condé Nast bitchfest; Franklin Street "reverse flip"; local politicians talking to other potential Seaport developers; Battery Park City woman in fatal car accident; pre-K proposals for Centre Street; Southbridge Towers lawsuit. / 3 comments
Plus: Where the South Street Seaport proposal stands now; more on the idea of tolling East River bridges; Lower Broadway finally getting nicer; Sheldon Silver's school overcrowding task force; new musical about young people; FiDi hotel pipe burst. / 1 comment
Plus: 250 West penthouse sold for way under ask; South Street Seaport air-rights purchase; World Trade Center name rights settlement; religious exemptions for vaccinations. / 4 comments
Plus: Sixth Avenue's permanent sidewalk café; where the criminal summons court is ending up; Hudson loft analysis; another Merchants restaurant; girls' softball team gets funding.
Plus: Little Park review; a report on the North Cove Marina town hall; Seaport editorial. / 2 comments
Plus: Battery Park City Authority's outsourced security; photographers Barbara Mensch and Eugene de Salignac; the long, rich history of 42-44 Broad.
Plus: North Cove Marina locked down; investigating the proposed benefits of the Seaport redo; ethically challenged Sheldon Silver; Pier 17 rendering. / 6 comments
Plus: Seaport tower critique; the Twin Towers in the 1970s; Hudson Street in 1898; the city's oldest liquor licenses; Kith owner Ronnie Fieg; Libra Leather pop-up; World Trade Center rant.
Plus: Nail salon closing; clocktower bells chiming again; more on the cats of northwest Tribeca; Community Board 1 Seaport meeting; view from 64th floor of 1 World Trade Center. / 1 comment
You are absolutely right. Tribeca has become a soulless land of chain cafés, spas and orthodontists. All about Tribeca moms... — R. / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
Looking at other people = fun. Being looked at = not so fun. This is (still) a gross invasion of... — Downtown Dad Again / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
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