An effort to green up the neighborhood joins forces with the architects trying to create a park out of the Holland Tunnel rotary. There will be a dozen new street trees as a result. / 18 comments
"Anyone know what's going in on the southeast corner of Spring and Hudson? Lots of diggers there." —M. / 1 comment
"Do you know why the building at Canal and Vestry is being covered in metal?" —N. / 10 comments
Plus: Photos of landmarked New York City interiors; drug cops cause parking problems; Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel closures; Evening Bar reviewed; 1st Precinct chief is transferred; Port Authority returns to World Trade Center. / 1 comment
Plus: Conflict of interest at the World Trade Center observatory; One Chase Manhattan Plaza is getting renamed. / 8 comments
Plus: More on the Roc crash driver; Bâtard tops year-end lists; Trinity Church files demolition permits; Port Authority to consider selling World Trade Center; more Meredith Monk. / 1 comment
Plus: Joan Rivers documentary screening; new blog about local kids' sports; Moomah the magazine and book; another Tribeca Task Force pamphlet; waterway festival; Holland Tunnel public spaces; Halloween pop-up; WTC sidewalk construction. / 1 comment
Plus: Don Hill's is being reborn; why the WTC Transportation Hub is a mess; the war over the WTC's Tower 5, a.k.a. the old Deutsche Bank site; ambulances dawdling on way to Battery Park City; Alex Birkenstock. / 3 comments
Plus: Legislation to charge for shopping bags; the joy of plungers. / 1 comment
Plus: Inside jeweler Gillian Steinhardt's studio; City Winery opening in other cities; should 3 World Trade Center get another $1.2 billion in subsidies?; Battery Park City Authority's charitable spending. / 4 comments
Plus: Alleged Hudson River Park rapist claims Four Loko defense; new BPCA president has been to BPC 20 times; Brushstroke to go (sort of); chasing Russell Crowe; World Trade Center antenna; rooftop garden. / 4 comments
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