At least the lights are on at Modell's; Healthynest coming soon; comedy at Wagner Park; a couple last shots from 9/11, including La Marseillaise at Hook & Ladder 8. / 8 comments
Our location at Chambers and Broadway has been there for 70 years, since Henry Modell opened a job training program there in 1946 and a retail store three years later.
Modell's, facing possible bankruptcy, is struggling to keep several of its underperforming stores alive -- including the ones here on Broadway and Chambers and Broadway and Liberty. / 6 comments
Plus: Diner en Blanc was indeed on Pier 26; Arcade Bakery's summer vacation; Urban Archaeology's imminent closing; Modell's has moved (and isn't combining); new intake at Seaport Studios; 2015 tree census.
Plus: Modell's said to be expanding, not moving; wedding dress company relocating here; 66 Reade restoration; death row art exhibit; "Good Wife" shoot; go buy flowers. / 3 comments
Plus: Modell's sporting goods rumor; Boomerang Toys Easter egg hunt; inside the Jungwon raincoat pop-up; new FiDi hotel's façade lights up like a clock; Underground Railroad tour; Good Stock soup. / 3 comments
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