PeckSlip Advocates for School Safety includes PTA members and local residents and is more than halfway to its goal for legal fees. / 6 comments
The 106-bed Safe Haven shelter, designed with services for street homeless, will open this fall. / 32 comments
The city has sited a Safe Haven shelter -- for the most housing resistant street homeless -- for a hotel that is attached to the Peck Slip School. / 13 comments
Remote or not, just how many kids are off the local schools' rolls? And could more kids end up skipping town? / 6 comments
Plus parents at Peck Slip School are worried about Howard Hughes' mercury cleanup; local firefighter gets a mention for his moonlighting gig; Tribeca as the scouting location for wealth porn.
At a building developed by friends of the President. Plus: The history of 44 Walker includes a rooftop bird-and-butterfly sanctuary; massive price chop for potential Hubert single-family home; hummus ice cream; mulling the next huge Seaport development.
Plus: Teachers using their own cars as safety barriers; study on the benefits of taxing real-estate developments; Frenchette's egg-and-escargot dish; tax implications of the dog park group's non-profit status; financial writer David Bach. / 2 comments
Also on Community Board 1's November agendas: Changes to the old Super Linda atrium; St. John's Lane safety issues; Peck Slip School security and health concerns; Duane Street facade alterations; Beaver Street reversal; more.
Plus: Concern over street closed to traffic so kids can play; Louis Vuitton pop-up; Birdbath's Nolita location has closed. / 7 comments
Plus: Lower Manhattan is crowded; the World Trade Center mall's relative lack of holiday decor; parents unhappy with school bus service; remembering Edward Albee; forthcoming Pier 40 vote; how Downtown Alliance's head spends Sunday; another Two Bridges mega-development. / 10 comments
Plus: Profile of architect Thierry Despont; parking lot owner refuses to let school block street for recess; another World Trade Center mall tenant gets sued for bailing; the history of 176 Franklin, where Riverrun was; city to sell lovely old Centre Street building to developer who can demolish it; Saks aims to be like a website; Cut's chef and art. / 5 comments
Plus: Peck Slip School is out of play space; "Little Syria" exhibit; where Joël Robuchon decided to open a restaurant after bailing on Brookfield Place; former North End Grill pastry chef's new bakery. / 4 comments
As I see it, it all matters. A civilized city should have good solutions to all of these issues. — Marcus / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
With Paper Source now closed inside Maman, where are people buying greeting cards/wrapping paper locally? (I want to avoid Hobby... — Sara / Seen & Heard: Maman is back open
I prefer the stickers to homeless, junkies, and excrement from dogs or humans. Focus on what matters maybe? — Thomas / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
Agreed about the sidewalk stickers, along with the painted on / sprayed on sidewalk ads and "clever" saying. Also, what... — Marcus / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
Those sidewalk stickers are a new out of home ad treatment; they are everywhere, they are hideous and yes, they... — nichole / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
I love this interview. What that NC senatorial candidate said about Morris -- that he captured her voice uniquely well... — Komanoff / TCQ&A: Morris Katz
a reminder to parents and care givers: Duane Park Patisserie gives homemade treats to trick or treaters from toddlers through... — madeline c lanciani / Halloween in Washington Market Park — and more to come