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Plus CVS just signed the least at 140 Church; Liev Schreiber on buying art in the neighborhood; a family is slashed near The Battery. / 2 comments
Plus a show of a feminist art icon at Sapar Contemporary; Blue Smoke Flatiron has closed permanently.
Plus the New York Academy of Art kicks off its artist talk series TONIGHT; another fast casual Mexican in Fidi; Worth Street gets a dugout, minus the team. / 1 comment
Plus: Babesta's Yummy World Christmas tree; Santa Claus at Washington Market Park; Ana Gasteyer's "Holiday Tipple"; answers to the first three Dead Restaurant posts. / 1 comment
Plus: Dunkin' Donuts tests its new name in FiDi; free yoga tomorrow; a bench appeared at Finn Square; Robert Janz flower collages; overheard in Tribeca. / 3 comments
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: Forensic sculpture exhibit; checking in on the two buildings going up at Church and Chambers; Parachute opening a store on Grand; exhibit about race and class in Brazil.
Plus: Truck goes over barrier and into Hudson River Park; Reade Street building for sale; Le Pain Quotidien coffee cart; "Figurative Diaspora" at the New York Academy of Art. / 2 comments
Plus: Oculus escalator malfunction leads to injuries; New York Ranger roommates in Battery Park City; neighbors concerned about noise from co-working space; Trump Soho restaurant closed; head of the New York Academy of Art; floral designer Ken Fulk; FiDi stabbing. / 3 comments
Plus: Open studios at New York Academy of Art; Verve Wines is opening a West Coast store; Earth Day rally this Saturday to protest Trump's agenda; 60 Hudson's non-Tribeca "Tribeca" signage. / 3 comments
Plus: Photos of the new Nobu in FiDi; renovation at Lower Manhattan's only hospital; Canal Street topper approved; Tribeca Ball photos; antiques at Gary Graham; top daiquiri; CB1 feeling ignored by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. / 5 comments
The manufacturers had legal leverage over the building owners when store tenants were selling counterfeits. They succeeded in getting counterfeits... — James / What can be done about counterfeit vendors?
I think they do fight it, but it's apparently difficult to trace it to source and legally expensive. The designs... — Marcus / What can be done about counterfeit vendors?
Surely all forms of sweatshop labor should be abolished, and all those who try to profit it from should face... — Marcus / What can be done about counterfeit vendors?
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Of course you’re right that these vendors have been here for decades. Fake Rolexes from a suitcase is a New... — ok / What can be done about counterfeit vendors?
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