Comment here or send a note with ideas for getting a professional workout in the streets and parks. I've started the ball rolling with several local options.
Plus: Balloon Saloon's fun display; local thefts (not even SoulCycle is safe); "homework therapists" in Tribeca; restaurant bake sale for Planned Parenthood; the battle over the World Trade Center name; "brutalized elegance" on Canal Street. / 1 comment
Plus: Prominent Canal Street topper can't clear the Landmarks Preservation Commission; arrest made in series of FiDi bar thefts; Rockaway ferry to be the first of the new routes to launch; "Breaking Bad" pop-up restaurant. / 6 comments
Plus: Awkward situation at Community Board 1; escaping apocalyptic Manhattan by boat; more victims' photos at the 9/11 Museum; a SoulCycle instructor's beauty regimen.
"Whatever you might say about this neighborhood as it evolves, it will always be the place where people do know your name and care that you are around," says Logan Levkoff, a sexologist and sexuality educator. "It’s why I can’t live anywhere else." / 1 comment
Plus: Citigroup exercised its option to buy its Greenwich Street headquarters; more ineptitude from the Cuomo administration regarding its fiefdom; a petition for local representation in Battery Park City; Laura Poitras's upcoming Whitney show; thieves on bikes steal phone; the Clinton SoulCycle benefit. / 4 comments
Plus: The story of the frieze above Harrison Street; hope dims for the East River beach; Community Board 1 to discuss requesting more local representation; discarded Christmas trees. / 7 comments
Plus: East Tribeca rat quest; the Battery Park City Authority bought bikes saying "Police" for its new security force; the construction of the city's first subway; Le Pain Quotidien opens in FiDi with chicken and meatballs.
Plus: SoulCycle files to go public; private high school teacher in FiDi accused of sex with student.
It's about to open. Plus: SoulCycle Tribeca update; comparing the Smyth to its rendering; new UFC Gym; 15 Renwick progress; inside La Colombe on Vandam; ugly green bike lanes; North End Grill prawns.
Plus: Big Broadway development likely to be even bigger; Mehtaphor reopened with a much smaller menu; mystery storefront on Chambers; great photo of the WTC Oculus; Tribeca architecture illustration; Oktoberfeast in the Seaport; "Where in Tribeca...?" answer. / 4 comments
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I saw that sign the other day and thought it looked out of proportion compared to all the other commercial... — hmmm / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby signage gets bold
Linda Gottesfeld deserves everyone 's attention. go! — Madeline Lanciani / Art in Tribeca: Linda Gottesfeld at George Adams Gallery
Great work Friends of Finn Square, working on a long fuse! — Paul Mutter / Sidewalks around Finn Square will be replaced
Sadly, this is becoming more and more common. I went to Aimé Leon Dore on a random Tuesday afternoon at... — malcolm / New Kid in Fidi: Printemps
I went one afternoon and there was a line to enter! New Yorkers don’t wait in lines! I said to... — Gwen / New Kid in Fidi: Printemps
Thrilled to see this long-needed improvement to the area. Would welcome any plans or designs showing how the finished product... — John M / Sidewalks around Finn Square will be replaced