Plus: Gotham Bikes is renting; a complaint about bike access at the World Trade Center; fireworks tonight; helicopter response.
Plus: $104 million and ten years to fix Pier 40; Battery Park City mail facility to close; 40 Worth storefront play; tax relief for yacht owners. / 3 comments
Plus: The recipe for Telepan's coconut cake; Steven Soderbergh buys another apartment; 3 World Trade Center work starts up again; funding for Pier 40 boiler repairs; renovation pays off; vintage party. / 3 comments
Plus: The Fulton Center, explained; another White Street restaurant review; the proposed development of the St. John’s Terminal.
Plus: Community "media center" cut by a third and moved to basement; Pier 40 deal still being covered up; Beekman crowns are postmodern; Michael Stipe sells; North Cove Marina; Sketchers guy buys; Zac Posen is late on his rent. / 4 comments
Plus: $3,000 toilets that play "Ave Maria"; Zakarian says no confirmation yet; Turnbull & Asser and Bobbi Brown at the World Trade Center; Watts Street demolition; pop-up Greenmarkets in FiDi. / 1 comment
Also on June’s Community Board 1 agendas: The new hotel that wants a rooftop bar; the Pier 40 air rights deal; Pier 26 construction; South Street Seaport development; tour buses; 87 Leonard; and much more. / 7 comments
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
Plus: 9/11 Museum restaurant rant; Time Inc. signs lease here; New York Academy of Art; frightening theft on Desbrosses; Pier 40 deal secretly done months ago; New York Ranger; 1 Wall Street sold; Pier A bells; Seaport food trucks and sailing; Canal Street building. / 1 comment
Plus: Naomi Watts, Tribeca fan; 56 Leonard suddenly visible from everywhere; Café Clementine's latest health-grade protest; table-tennis parlor closed; Marks & Spencer shoot; "Meet the Fishes" with River Project.
...at the expense of riverfront real estate. No clue if they're remotely recent or under consideration, but I found some renderings, from a noted architect, of how the new development might look. / 4 comments
Plus: Skateboard-wielding candy thieves; Brushstroke starts serving lunch; the Tribeca Film Festival; trees at Pier 26. / 1 comment
Amazing photo of Tribute in Light! — SW / Seen & Heard: Kyuramen is open on Gold
The bus I was on zipped by One Park Row so fast that I couldn't be sure, so I verified... — Gary / TurboTax opening an office on Greenwich and Warren
What is the seating for this performance tonight September 10th? I have the required tickets. Is it self seating on... — Steve Tintweiss / Bill T. Jones to commemorate 9/11 at Wagner Park
I swear I saw them opening on Park Row as well! — Heather / TurboTax opening an office on Greenwich and Warren
Thomas was in the same class as Micah, I believe. Ronnie was an exceptional third grade teacher and went on... — Elspeth Schell / PS 89 principal Ronnie Najjar will retire this summer
Fully agree with previous comments: WE WANT GIGINO'S! Tired of waiting! Especially with the restaurants around the North Cove being... — S. Rennie / Nosy Neighbor: What restaurant is coming to the pavilion at Wagner Park?
Translation: Hello Mikey Flowers, for 25 years now, you and your team have been providing a white rose for the... — Tribeca Citizen / Mikey Flowers and the 9/11 Memorial keep a tradition alive