Plus: Battery Park City resident found dead; Balducci's rumor; Howard Hughes Corporation asks for after-the-fact demolition permission; downtown gets storm protection funding; visiting the loft of Isabel Rose.
Also on February’s Community Board 1 agendas: A sidewalk bench in front of Laughing Man; Worth Street construction; new Malaysian restaurant; 101 Murray demolition; Brookfield Place restaurants; pay phones. / 3 comments
Plus: North Cove Marina locked down; investigating the proposed benefits of the Seaport redo; ethically challenged Sheldon Silver; Pier 17 rendering. / 6 comments
Plus: Daytime swingers club (with "sexy karaoke") bothering neighbors; P.S. 150 wins an award; the 443 Greenwich sales office—and a glimpse of its new penthouse topper. / 1 comment
Plus: Dinosaur Jr. headlines free music festival tomorrow; Pier 17 in rubble; Hudson Eats reviewed; Greenhouse nightclub has a new plan; noisy loft; giant Rubik's Cube on the Hudson.
Plus: Bank of New York Mellon moving to Brookfield Place; kid-on-kid crime at West Thames Park; Pier 17 environmental impact.
Plus: Battery Park City's Percy Corcoran has passed away; local politicians still haven't seen Pier 40 air-rights deal; Pier 17 demolition nearly done; the wine at Bâtard. / 1 comment
...Organic Avenue, Acne Studios, the Kooples, and more. Plus: Man jumps to death in Battery Park City; La Garçonne's founder; architect Rafael Viñoly; Pier 17 demolition; 9/11 Family Room to close. / 1 comment
Plus: 15 Leonard renderings and pricing; a jeweler's note to a burglar; creepy theft at the Gehry building; Park Row real estate; Pier 17 lawsuit; "Divergent" director. / 2 comments
Plus: Seaport City really about levees; Ward III's Old-Fashioned recipe; Olive's at Brookfield Place; 4 World Trade Center ceremony; Pace dorm; Simply Seafood event. / 3 comments
Plus: New renderings of Pier 17 (and a promise to help the South Street Seaport Museum); buyer for One Chase Manhattan Plaza; rave for Taymour Grahne Gallery show. / 4 comments
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