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.
Glad to read the clarifying comment by Judy Epstein Gage, and glad to hear David Gage will be staying in... — Marcus / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood
I grew up in a neighborhood with basement bagel, bakeries, long, narrow, bagel, ovens, bagelmeister’s, who really knew their craft.... — A. / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
In our house the cart bagels are what we call "cake bagels", barely 1 step up from Lender's frozen bagels.... — Nicole Vianna / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Unfortunately this is true about virtually every public works project in the city. Take a walk around all of the... — Reademan / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City
This bagel Baedeker doesn't even include the ubiquitous food carts that vend breakfast essentials, including - say it - bagels.... — Gary / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Don’t ask me how I have this connection, but I’ve spoken to the construction manager 1:1 before (he didn't know... — Upset BPC Resident / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City
Thank you for the article about the move of our primary retail and repair business, Finlay and Gage, from Tribeca... — Judy Epstein Gage / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood