Plus: Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel reportedly bought in Tribeca; Augustine review; Landmarc wins its trademark fight with the Seagram Building restaurant; potential $100 million funding shortfall for the World Trade Center performing arts center. / 2 comments
Plus: The "resurrection" of Greenwich Street and the last remaining World Trade Center battle; supermarket elegy; Staten Island Ferry hoax. / 5 comments
As a result of a legal settlement, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation had $50 million to hand out to various downtown organizations and projects. And the winners are.... / 2 comments
Plus: "Model Woman" shoot, about the modeling industry in the 1970s; midcentury Brazilian mirrors; street-level rendering for the Beekman Hotel's condo tower; 1 World Trade Center light show.
Plus: Funding for design of the World Trade Center performing arts center; painting of Franklin Street of yore; "high-energy Pilates" coming to Soho; recap of Lower Manhattan's food-related future; crossing guards.
Plus: Profiles of Tribeca gallerist Hal Bromm and artist David Lyle; Physique 57 opening in FiDi; judge recuses self from clocktower lawsuit; poker pro and wealth manager get engaged; man pretends to be Tracy Morgan's son at Haus.
Designers have been announced for the pier, and a corporate neighbor made a sizable donation. Plus: The pier's connection to disco history. (Update: Or not.) / 6 comments
Plus: Downtown landmark to be renamed after David Dinkins; Jay McInerney's new book is set in Tribeca; where the $50 million LMDC windfall might go; Battery Park City Police Memorial to get fixed; Pier 26 rendering. / 4 comments
Plus: What the new head has to say; Tribeca Trust's temporary pedestrian plaza; Schumer and Squadron call for WTC arts center funding; 1 World Trade Center is two-thirds leased; designer Carlos Motta; free FiDi wi-fi extended.
Plus: Four-story Warren Street building to get two-story penthouse; "Going in Style" remake shooting here; weigh in on how LMDC should spend $50 million; "cast-iron inversion" on Walker; Paul's Baby Grand changed its name.
Plus: Condé Nast editors' local recommendations; hot dog vendor gouges tourists (and how!); more rowers attempting to cross the Atlantic; Washington Market Park's flowers.
Plus: Rendering of forest-topped tower in FiDi; "Goodfellas" got Martin Scorsese barred from a Tribeca restaurant; push to rename West Thames Bridge; body pulled from Hudson River. / 1 comment
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