Plus: Battery Park Pharmacy has closed; New York Dolls to start serving lunch and dinner; "Bull" shoot; Grace Jones's "One Man Show." / 4 comments
Plus: Another sales office on Leonard; Washington Market Park's summer concert series; zoning forbids Pret's proposed sidewalk café; in the Seaport, an eyeglass store is opening and a kids' shop closed (and no sign of Van Leeuwen Ice Cream); Tom Hanks's fear of a Tribeca building. / 3 comments
Plus: Another phone snatching; opening date for Lower East Side arthouse cinema; Soho steakhouse closing; Gansevoort Market owner plans a food hall in Lower Manhattan.
There's been a lot of bad news lately, and I fear we haven't heard the last of it, so let's try to focus on the positive (for one post, anyway). Here are 14 things to look forward to in Lower Manhattan in the next year or two. / 10 comments
Plus: Fairway is in rough shape; a new art cinema on Canal Street; ownership consolidation at massive West Street development site; the director of the South Street Seaport Museum. / 1 comment
Thanks for the bird pix and here’s a link to your previous article about Gail Karlsson’s bird book for anyone... — Hudson River / Seen & Heard: Park closings for July 4
Pour one out for Belle Reve as well :( — Bradford / Corner of Lispenard and West Broadway is sold
Glad to see this, and I like the renderings. This lot was always a graffiti-vandalized eyesore. So this is quite... — Marcus / Construction moving along at 14 White
Surely someone is offended that no one was offended. — Marcus / Corner of Lispenard and West Broadway is sold
Farewell, Jungle on Mars. You won't be missed. — Marc / Seen & Heard: Puffy’s window shattered
The chopped cheese at Tribeca Olive Branch is very popular in my home! — Elizabeth / The Great Tribeca Deli Resurgance
I believe these buildings are landmarked. — Heide Fasnacht / Corner of Lispenard and West Broadway is sold