Plus: A low, loud F-16 flyover on Friday; new barre studio to be on Warren; Tribeca Health & Fitness is expanding; harvesting coins from the City Hall Park fountain.
(Not the famous one.) Plus: Opening date for Saks Fifth Avenue; construction worker hurt in accident at the Citi building; Q&A with the outgoing Community Board 1 chair. / 1 comment
Plus: Department of Buildings paperwork for space rumored to be a Bloomingdale's; Gee Whiz Diner reopens today; Liberty Park's garden wall; key World Trade Center corridor closer to opening; Fulton hotel rendering; Hudson Street in 2004. / 1 comment
Plus: Four Seasons debut pushed back; Pure Barre is opening soon; 56 Leonard closings have begun; W. Broadway storefront finally revealed. / 2 comments
Plus: World Trade Center Oculus now saying it'll open in two months; Sweetgreen to open in FiDi; broken lights for months now at the ball field terrace; Municipal Art Society chairs' proposal for skyscraper planning review; WeWork's first dorm.
There's been a lot of bad news lately, and I fear we haven't heard the last of it, so let's try to focus on the positive (for one post, anyway). Here are 14 things to look forward to in Lower Manhattan in the next year or two. / 10 comments
Instead, Saks Fifth Avenue is opening a men's store there. / 9 comments
Plus: Saks Fifth Avenue's Brookfield Place store hoping to open in June; America's Cup preliminary races to be held here; 1 World Trade Center in Legos; Community Board 1 vs. Battery Park City Authority. / 2 comments
Plus: Loft sellers on Laight learn the hard way; Saks Fifth Avenue to get a vestibule.
A rundown of the shops and restaurants yet to open at Brookfield Place—including whispers about Scoop, Club Monaco, and Drybar—and where they'll likely be. / 6 comments
Plus: A Brookfield Place store unveiled; Saks frontage; Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell in concert; "Where in Tribeca...?" still unanswered. / 2 comments
Plus: Demolition in full swing; funky old sign on W. Broadway; Citigroup drill; Saks Fifth Avenue signage; "Doubt" TV shoot; Broadway storefront activity. / 11 comments
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