Plus: MoviePass is testing e-ticketing at the Roxy Cinema; Cortlandt Alley building sold; crappy lettuce for sale; "atypical" flamenco performance; Pier 17 liquor licenses; "Village" shoot. / 2 comments
Plus: Restrictions attached to Battery Park City board representation; Frenchette's spicy chicken; Harry's Café and Steak renovation; more on Andrew Carmellini's Seaport restaurant; Sessanta to turn French; questions for the Battery Park City Authority. / 3 comments
Just added to the list: An 11,000-square-foot restaurant from the team behind Locanda Verde and Little Park.
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.
There has been a lot of depressing news in the past year, and we likely haven’t heard the last of it, so let’s focus on the positive (for one post, anyway). Here are 34 things to look forward to in Lower Manhattan.
The other night, I attended a party in a raw space on the fourth floor of Pier 17, the tent-pole attraction at the reinvented South Street Seaport, now calling itself the Seaport District. There were spectacular views in three directions, but of equal interest was the journey to and from the event.
Plus: The "crazy beautiful" Christmas tree of Maman's co-founders; ferry operator is said to be backsliding from promises made about noise. / 2 comments
Plus: Multi-car crash in FiDi; inside the underground farm on Worth Street; the Seaport District moved its Christmas tree.
Also on Community Board 1's December agendas: Two weeks of fashion events at Spring Studios; variance for the new condominium at Sixth Ave. and White Street; Five Boro Bike Tour; privately owned public space compliance; more. / 3 comments
Plus: Sales at Schoolhouse Electric and Antiqueria Tribeca; year-round twice-weekly composting at the Tribeca Greenmarket; the ramifications of the huge Pier 17 rooftop event space; "Billions" is back again.
Plus: So-called public plazas that remain unopen to the public; history of a Broadway building; alleged subway groper; extensive canopy planned for the roof of Pier 17. / 8 comments
Plus: Updated plan and renderings for the Battery Maritime Building; new Chinese restaurant in FiDi; St. Joseph's Chapel will close in January; light art at the Seaport District; WeWork's school project; Rolex taken at the Equinox. / 15 comments
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