An update on the FiDi café/cocktail bar. Plus: North End Grill on track; Occupy Wall Street drums bothering residents, as is construction (this is news?); Pace's new dorm; that gumball machine.
Plus: School-zoning meeting; ball fields to reopen; Marc Forgione; bike-share preview; "Dream House" reopens; Pace's cultural ambition; actor Jesse L. Martin; Low Line park. / 1 comment
Plus: Chambers block two-way again; Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are house-hunting; Patron of the New reviewed; Seaport Museum rescue; LMDC rains funds; WTC in CGI; Theater Bar pop-up restaurant; Rafael Cennamo.
The Muppets, Keanu Reeves, the lead singer of Slipknot, a pet photographer, Marc Cohn, Aaron Neville, Mia Farrow, the Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra, and more.
There’s a ton of great stuff happening this week, including a July 4 barbecue, Rickie Lee Jones, 10,000 Maniacs, films about creepy kids, "Walking and Talking" with an appearance by Liev Schreiber, "Manhattan," bluegrass, Parker Posey at her finest, and more.
Plus: NYT executive editor Jill Abramson; next door to Dominque Strauss-Kahn; Pace University plaza revamp; penthouse price cut; KS Art review; Tiny's desserts; angry parents; Fatty 'Cue kiosk now open.
Plus: Reade57 timeline; Soul Daddy review; Liberty Green aims high on the rents; Governors Island cat; Vesey crosswalk; Pace's new building.
Regal won't play along, but there will be a daylong soccer event on Pier 40, and the family festival won't relegate local businesses to the lower level of BMCC like it did last year.
Plus: Tragedy at 101 Warren; lions for BPC library?; Death & Co. spinoff details; Citigroup; Independence Plaza senior center at risk; gym and theater on Warren?; 471 Washington; Pace dorm drama.
Plus: Beekman Tower video; Carmellini in food spat; more 5 Beekman photos; New York State pulling out of 1WTC?; the new Pace dorm; 9/11 documentary; Stuzzicheria.
Plus: Jon Stewart saves the day; Tribecans who eat; Pace's new building; Riedel scion; Otto Penzler; 9/11 museum; Corton; bank robbery arrest; restaurant roundups; author Helen Simonson; "Nutcracker" blues; Seaport may sell a boat.
The CB1 Tribeca committee discusses one-way tolls on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, liquor-license applications for Duane Street and the Pig-N-Whistle space, a newsstand at W. Broadway and N. Moore, drunk Pace students, and more.
What a generous soul you are Native! — Gwen / Nosy Neighbor: Where did these benches come from?
Repair fest is Sunday (not Sat) Nov 8. Coincides with the farmers market. — Fran / Seen & Heard: Ess-a-Bagel getting ready on Murray
Wonderful that Roy Lichtenstein’s iconic sculpture is permanently installed at 7WTC! — Dorothy Zeidman / Art in Tribeca: Roy Lichtenstein’s Brushstrokes
When the IP/trademark holders sue the City of New York (Department of Transportation) as owner of the sidewalks (its "inalienable... — James Bogardus / In the News: More on the counterfeit vendors of Canal Street
There is a simple solution and you can make it a three strikes and you're out rule if you do... — Aaron / In the News: More on the counterfeit vendors of Canal Street
In addition to all you mentioned, there is now jack hammering and heavy equipment and blocked intersections on Franklin, Greenwich... — 40 Harrison St. resident / Construction making progress on Greenwich?
Two years later and I think this might actually come to fruition - I noticed a new sign today on... — B. Thompson / Japanese restaurant coming to Murray Street