The question now is whether the new owner will convert the building to condos. / 4 comments
Plus: White Street restaurant isn't coming back to life; a photo of Saturday's jet flyover; fashion designer moving out; the big new rental building on Hudson; exhibit of work by a fashion photographer. / 3 comments
Plus: The De Blasio administration has jacked up commercial real estate taxes (and an acclaimed West Village restaurant is closing partly as a result); Cut has Sunday brunch and a lunch deal; when Broadway was Typewriter Row; East River Esplanade logjam cleared.
Plus: The revamped seats at the Regal Battery Park cineplex; Hamptons real estate showroom opening here; the Renwick side of the big new rental building on Hudson; survey time!
Here's the menu. Plus: Kitchens at 70 Vestry will have four ovens (and many will have two washing machines); results of a survey of people who hire nannies; Houseman's kitchen-swap with a Savannah restaurant; man pulled from car and attacked. / 1 comment
Is the big new building in northwest Tribeca better than what preceded it? Does it resemble the rendering at all? Does it add to the neighborhood or detract from it? / 6 comments
Plus: The dreaded Broadway bus bulb is getting rebuilt; more looks at the 70 Vestry model; 7 World Trade Center plaza got its replacement trees; Five Boro Bike Tour street closures; the droning outside Tribeca Tower still hasn't been fixed.
Discussed at last night's meeting: Start date for the five-year Worth Street reconstruction; whether to give 70 Vestry 33 more private parking spaces; Two Hands sidewalk tables; Five Boro Bike Tour street closures; several event permits; Wichcraft and Chipotle liquor licenses; the Flea update. / 3 comments
Plus: Two Hands dinner service update; quashing a Smith & Mills rumor; kitchen and furniture maker opening in Hudson Square; Related's handsome new rental building; "Where in Tribeca...?" answer.
Plus: The World Trade Center Oculus opens at 3 p.m. tomorrow, and its skylight will open on nice days; the WSJ says the building "wows rather than elevates"; Yips patron loses sock filled with $3,800; Battery Park City Authority trusts its own decision-making, to a point. / 3 comments
Plus: Lost cat; construction again at Church and Chambers; Broadway and Franklin circa 1850; romantic poster; is there a Tribeca tax? / 3 comments
Plus: There is a system to the sidewalk markings; color test on Franklin Street; Louise Brooks film screening; update on the big rental building on Hudson; Carine Roitfeld's headquarters. / 2 comments
I think we have a hidden gem in Tribeca that doesn’t get its due. Tac, on Warren Street, has good... — Elizabeth / The family from Beef Bar has taken the Sarabeth’s corner
Chinatown Building Supply (72 Walker) is a long-trusted local business that makes keys, and they're inexpensive. — mulciber / A new gallery is opening tonight in the Tribeca Hardware space
Whenever l want something unique and beautiful l contact the Plecas sister’s. l’ve been buying gifts for myself and special... — Jacqueline Shabot / Made in Tribeca: PLEĆAŠ
Yeah, handing over billion$ to the mismanaged and free spending MTA makes sense to non-critical thinkers. The so called "congestion"... — Common Sense / Tunnel Traffic: How it started; how it’s going
Chris, I remember you and all the creative sketches that the artist/employees hung on the walls. I miss the hardware... — Dana / A new gallery is opening tonight in the Tribeca Hardware space
...and there's the beer bar... — Tribeca Citizen / Trouble at the Tin Building?
There must be a reader that you are entering the grid as you leave the FDR Drive. — Tribeca Citizen / Clarity — finally — on one angle of congestion pricing for Downtown residents