Plus: Manhattan Detention Center to triple in size; two robberies at Independence Plaza; what to do with the New Market Building site once the demolition is done. / 1 comment
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: Using 460 Washington to explain the 421-a tax abatement; Howard Hughes's new Seaport District plan (also, it bought the Peck Slip Best Western); Trinity Church ticked off an artist by moving his sculpture; Rector bridge elevator semi-fixed; shoplifters steal gum, threaten stabbing; Woolworth Building in Harry Potter spin-off. / 6 comments
Plus: Howard Hughes says no tower will be built on the New Market Building site; Arcade Bakery's s'mores Danish; opening forecast for Tetsu; SoulCycle bike stolen; another likely Broadway conversion; Best Made founder's Catskills cabin; the FiDi Dean & DeLuca might have a restaurant; Red Bull theft goes awry. / 2 comments
Also on Community Board 1's June agendas: Public amenities at the 111 Murray tower; the threatened historic Seaport buildings; new ownership for Greenwich Street Tavern; Governors Island day spa; Peck Slip Park; M1-5; more.
A one-bedroom for $4,575,000?! Plus: City backtracks on its secret demolition plan for historic Seaport buildings; man pulled from river off Pier 26; Fleet Week started today; theft at Patron of the New; review of City Hall restaurant concert.
Plus: New food delivery service; hit-and-run victim speaks out; Anthony Bourdain food hall not happening at 3WTC; bill to allow dogs at sidewalk cafés; Bradley Cooper's house hunt; Airbnb user's legal trouble; Daniel Squadron; FiDi Samaritan attacked and robbed. / 3 comments
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i commented before on this park and how it was renovated 3 times since i have lived here which is... — adam glassman / Skateboarders discover Bogardus Plaza
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