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
I hate to be so blunt, but this strikes me as racially motivated, not unlike the brouhaha over the courts... — malcolm / Grand Canal basketball court should be back by end of summer
What's the point of another dog run when the majority of dog owners in lower manhanttan take their dogs off... — J Frank P / Grand Canal basketball court should be back by end of summer
I knew about the Beach experimental tunnel, but the question remains: What is the tunnel that this club is using?... — Gary / Massive underground spa and meditation space coming to Broadway and White
The show is Count My Lies featuring Lindsay Lohan! — Emily / Seen & Heard: Hulu series filming around the neighborhood
Yes, it was Warren/Broadway closer to City Hall, and not 1840s! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Beach_Pneumatic_plan.jpg/1920px-Beach_Pneumatic_plan.jpg — Duane Denizen / Massive underground spa and meditation space coming to Broadway and White
Yes, here visibility for the motorist was an issue. But beyond that is the leniency towards blocked bike lanes, even... — malcolm / Bike rider in critical condition after early morning collision
I thought that was further down around Reade? — Lispenard / Massive underground spa and meditation space coming to Broadway and White