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
To the Olio e Piu owners, sincerely: please do not blight this location with fake flowers. We will welcome you... — Cw / Mr Chow is indeed closing
Seeing as Starbucks and other chains tried and failed to replace the bagel place, that is a reasonable hypothesis. — James Bogardus / Apollo Bagels is getting closer…
I think the bagel place is replacing Starbucks and other coffee chains as a place to grab coffee and a... — Amy G. / Apollo Bagels is getting closer…
Lynda I signed up for the 5/17 class. I'll see you then!!! Here is the link to sign up if... — HB / Massive underground spa and meditation space coming to Broadway and White
Lynda I signed up for the 5/17 class. I'll see you then!!! — HB / Massive underground spa and meditation space coming to Broadway and White
Lynda I signed up for the 5/17 class. I'll see you then!!! — HB / Massive underground spa and meditation space coming to Broadway and White
I hate to be so blunt, but this strikes me as racially motivated, not unlike the brouhaha over the courts... — malcolm / Grand Canal basketball court should be back by end of summer