Plus: More details on this week's military maneuvers; Grand Banks merchandise; New York Academy of Art's Open Studios event is tonight; more Peanuts murals; helicopter tourism's unknown economic benefits.
Plus: Chef Paul Liebrandt returns to cook in Tribeca through May; group portrait of artists who never left Tribeca or Soho; Resy to withhold popular booking times; tattoo parlor setting up at Saks Fifth Avenue. / 3 comments
Plus: Local businesses helping to keep sidewalks clean; winter-only vendor at the Tribeca Greenmarket; new customizable event space on Lispenard; pet adoption event on Sunday. / 6 comments
Plus: A new neighborhood emergency-response team; curtailing development in the Two Bridges area; subway decay; kakigori at Canal Street Market; the history of 20 Exchange Place.
Plus: Vietnamese oranges are evidently in season; complaining about film shoots; ginkgo trees dropping green leaves; Best Made goes bicoastal. / 10 comments
Plus: Dean & DeLuca is pulling out of its FiDi plans; Chambers Street building sold; metalwork on view at Donzella. / 10 comments
Plus: Email receipts at Best Market; politicians oppose the arcade infill plan at 200 Water; neat drawing of J. Crew's Liquor Store; 9/11 Memorial parking privilege; another shoot. / 3 comments
After nearly beating Margaret Chin in the Democratic primary, Christopher Marte will try again in the general election on November 7. / 8 comments
Plus: Pier 17's proposed canopy still needs to get Landmarks approval; possible new ferry to the southern tip of Staten Island; digital ads coming to subway cars and stations. / 1 comment
Plus: Christopher Marte is on the verge of conceding; Stuyvesant student learned that there's no easy way out of the river; 9/11 photo display stolen; the history of a beautiful building at Broadway and White; charging hubs for electric cars. / 1 comment
Plus: The city council voted down Pret a Manger's Chambers Street sidewalk café; The Bedford not opening in FiDi; new Chinese fast-casual restaurant; one new phone store, maybe two; Cassini art show; a pair of television shoots. / 2 comments
Plus: Analyzing the city council vote; the Board of Elections won't count absentee and provisional ballots yet; Margaret Chin's graceless victory statement; Barry Diller withdraws plan to build Hudson River Park pier; Battery Park City resident launching a fashion line of rowing blazers. / 4 comments
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At One White a single person can walk the sidewalk sideways. — Heide Fasnacht / The finalized rules for outdoor dining
Good for NYC. Many sheds have taken over sidewalks - Walkers, Bubbys for example. Will be interesting to see if... — HS / The finalized rules for outdoor dining
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Andy, I totally agree disgusting. It needs to go. They had it up long enough. I loved when they were... — native / The finalized rules for outdoor dining
The ones at Zona are particularly gross. A magnet for rats and this morning on an early walk with the... — Andy / The finalized rules for outdoor dining
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