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
But there is space Wall Street and south - that should be target if building housing — stm / Seen & Heard: Big reno for east side of Pace campus
Yes I use those other subways plus bus. Do you use 2/3? The platform is already dangerous — stm / Seen & Heard: Big reno for east side of Pace campus
Relax. This building isn't in Tribeca. (Although the developer will market it as Tribeca.) — Thomas Hagen / Construction Update: 65 Franklin
Housing — Aaron CHRISTENSEN / 25 Water is now SoMA, and a lottery has begun on affordable units
No offense, but you do understand that this building is on Broadway, right? There are buildings that tall and taller... — mulciber / Construction Update: 65 Franklin
TriBeCa has always had homeless people, I worked in the area from the early 2000s to late 2010s. Actually its... — AJ / Encampment set up on Park Row and Beekman
to N: Agree with you completely. There was a black man named Lennie camped out on Chambers against the Medrite... — jeff / Encampment set up on Park Row and Beekman