The celebrated neighborhood restaurant on Chambers Street will now have an apt name and a redesigned space and concept. / 1 comment
The restaurant is being reinvented and will open this spring. Plus NFTs at Postmasters; A Uno is packing up; Goodbye to a good shop dog.
The south side of Chambers has six empty store fronts out of a total of 14 -- making it a bit of a ghost town. Luckily eight are still going strong. / 19 comments
Plus three neighborhood chefs get rising star awards; Spectrum has a new store on Chambers; a reminder about restaurant gift cards.
A local college kid redesigns the Downtown Yogurt logo in his spare time; a winter market at Cocoon; an art installation that you can sit on at the Seaport; Racines holiday wine sale. / 2 comments
Scalini Fedeli is back open with curbside; Racines is now an 18-seat wine restaurant with private dining; Split Eights opens a coffee/cocktail bar in Fidi; a brick and click popup at the Oculus.
Offering complete meals that change weekly, Racines is reinventing takeout as a way to reduce waste and keep the menu fun and fresh. Plus there's wine.
Local businesses and restaurants are taking extra precautions in light of the coronavirus, all while trying to hold on to a bit of their business. / 3 comments
Plus Lights for Liberty rally lights up Foley Square; a local broker and her partner specialize for moms; high school students redo the Last Supper for Trinity mural.
Plus Paul Hovitz leaves Community Board 1 after three decades; neighbors keep vigilant on illegal parkers; BPC gets a traffic light; and Racine's is named as a top wine restaurant. / 3 comments
Plus the founder of Peloton in a podcast live at Tribeca PAC tonight; a meeting on the future of Wagner Park; a guest chef at Racine's from Montreal; Taste of Tribeca tix are on sale now. / 5 comments
Plus, snow of yesteryear proves they don't do it like they used to; new chef at Racine's, two local bank buildings go condo -- but must preserve their landmarked interior spaces. / 1 comment
A lot of NIMBYism in these comments. Financial district is basically the birthplace of the skyscraper, has always been crowded,... — Cd / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
One solution to the lack of common areas and too much traffic: close streets to cars/trucks permanently, and convert them... — Ben / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
Typo: before 2010 (not 2020) — stm / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
Before 2020, the area was still mostly office (personally I would not describe as moribund) and actually less traffic. There... — stm / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
I pass by 100 Gold a couple of time a week. At street level it seems dank and squat, and... — Gary / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
Lovely and well deserved -- keep up the good work, Adger! — John Willenbecher / Catching up with Adger Cowans on his 90th birthday
My concern is not any one building in isolation—it is the cumulative impact of (100 Gold St, 250 Water St,... — Harry deen / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold