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
Glad to read the clarifying comment by Judy Epstein Gage, and glad to hear David Gage will be staying in... — Marcus / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood
I grew up in a neighborhood with basement bagel, bakeries, long, narrow, bagel, ovens, bagelmeister’s, who really knew their craft.... — A. / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
In our house the cart bagels are what we call "cake bagels", barely 1 step up from Lender's frozen bagels.... — Nicole Vianna / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Unfortunately this is true about virtually every public works project in the city. Take a walk around all of the... — Reademan / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City
This bagel Baedeker doesn't even include the ubiquitous food carts that vend breakfast essentials, including - say it - bagels.... — Gary / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Don’t ask me how I have this connection, but I’ve spoken to the construction manager 1:1 before (he didn't know... — Upset BPC Resident / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City
Thank you for the article about the move of our primary retail and repair business, Finlay and Gage, from Tribeca... — Judy Epstein Gage / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood