Curbside is getting cozier with more and more private booths coming online on the street. / 1 comment
Plus: Time-lapse video of 30 Park Place's construction; Hornblower party boats to quiet down while docked. / 2 comments
Plus: Sugar-daddy website leads to trouble; lighting strikes 1 World Trade Center; bartender rescues guy who backflipped into the East River; tourists getting scammed at the Staten Island Ferry; iPad stolen from school. / 1 comment
Plus: 50 West details; Pier 15 concerts, including George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic.
Plus: A new bar under the FDR Drive; East River Waterfront beach funded; checking in on Bridge Café and Paris Café; men without shirts.
Plus: Spring Studios building flipped; city takes over Seaport Museum; historic ship needs grant; another FiDi conversion?; Merchants Hospitality has a bunch of new restaurants.
Plus: Battery Park City a proposed "slow zone"; New York Downtown Hospital lays off its EMTs; underground supper club on Franklin Street; secret wrap restaurant.
Plus: Desayuno and almuerzo at Los Americanos; sandwich shop reopens; Citigroup plaza changes?; film shoot; Blumberg's moved; 17 Harrison; Loopy Doopy reopens; Gateway Plaza bike-rack protest; Tribeca Park sculpture; Franklin Place sales office; Walker break-ins. / 3 comments
Plus: Woman assaulted on Pier 15; Asphalt Green litigation; Super Linda taqueria open; Temp gallery party; longing for the old Tribeca; Seaport green roofs still not approved; fashionable FiDi. / 3 comments
Plus: Pier 15 review; the cause of the Pier 17 fire; 9/11 families want politicians to speak at anniversary.
"When we first moved here, we lived in the middle of the Fulton Fish Market," says Marco Pasanella, wine-store owner and author of a new memoir. "Our ground floor tenant was a fishmonger who moved 75,000 pounds of salmon out of our front door—every day!"
Plus: Merchant's Hospitality's plans for Pier 15 (and a bit of a rant); principal speaks out; art exhibit; Trinity Church and Occupy Wall Street.
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