Read about Racines NY in the Tribeca Citizen Restaurant Guide.
Plus: Racines's new chef on his plans for the restaurant; proposed changes to 140 Broadway plaza tabled for now; politicians push city to start up Seaport redevelopment talks; FiDi street co-naming effort.
Plus: Ecco's future could be hazy; Club Pilates appears to be opening soon; the William Barthman watch store on Broadway has closed; 1st Precinct Community Council. / 5 comments
Back by popular demand: An updated roundup of happy hour deals. Take off early and have a drink and some nibblybits at one of your favorite neighborhood establishments. / 1 comment
Plus: M9 and Citi Bike changes because of the Warren Street reconstruction; Racines bar menu; another Piccola Cucina restaurant; Café Clover is opening a "grocery" store; Broadway storefront renovation; restaurant listing. / 1 comment
Plus: Planting at the Four Seasons plaza; Racines NY introduces happy hour; a furniture store's "huge huge sale"; shut out of the Municipal Building cupola tour; tawdry colored lighting; Skin Laundry façade. / 17 comments
Plus: Favor request for the new residents of 56 Leonard; Sixth Avenue restaurant appears not to be Empire Diner; Tribeca Meet & Greet is this coming Tuesday; action at a former smoke shop; Marseilles dinner. / 1 comment
Plus: Drawings of the restaurant coming to the former Ivy's Bistro space; Liquor Store artwork; Racines NY also participating in Taste of Tribeca for the first time.
Plus: Franklin Street garbage miscreant; updated rendering for 70 Vestry; smoke shop for rent; a hawk spotted lunching in Foley Square; updates on City Hall Greenmarket and NewYork-Presbyterian hospital; luggage repair advice? / 4 comments
The lawsuit was presumably a factor. Plus: A developer that likes brickwork; tree-planting at the World Trade Center's Liberty Park; wine lists in peril; Sushi Azabu reviewed; pipe-wielding homeless man arrested. / 1 comment
Plus: Racines NY's prix-fixe lunch menu; pink paper in the Josephine windows; ticker-tape parade alert now at red level; Sweet Lily closing for renovations; Harley-Davidson's use of a public plaza; "Taste of" event in the West Village.
Plus: Former executive accuses Battery Park City Authority of corruption; which restaurants got Michelin stars (and which ones should have); music at Artists Space Books & Talks; artist giving paintings up for adoption. / 1 comment
You can start by enforcing paying fares, how much that that cost a year? — S / The future of congestion pricing is “now or never”
James! Thank you ! I love the photo. — Native NYer / Upon the Palace has opened
So by extension, ill will toward the future employees of Hobby Lobby? — Bobbie / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Smartphones and doom scrolling has sucked the life out of our kids. Sometimes you need reminders like this to really... — hmmm / Capturing the lives of Tribeca youth before smartphones took hold
How many times, on a summer afternoon, did I sit on the doorsill at Dudley's Paw with Dudley beside me.... — John Willenbecher / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Yum yum. Looking forward to going here! — SW / Upon the Palace has opened
Yes!!!! My lady and I have been BEGGING for one of these!!!! — Jack Gaff / Chambers Street Wines is opening a wine bar on… Chambers