Can you believe it has been six months since Sandy? It may still be chewed up, but many of the businesses that make it special are back. / 4 comments
Plus: Front Street renewals; 56 Leonard selling for $3,000 per square foot; income by subway stop; West Thames bridge; 9 White comps; new high school; Tracy Anderson; hotel gun; flower-store scam. / 1 comment
Plus: Inside the new old South Ferry station; fake cobblestoning; anti-dog movement in DeLury Square Park.
...to be moved from Battery Park to Ellis Island. Plus: Hip ad agency rents on Wall Street; 11 N. Moore's big windows; Esoteric moves on; another Seaport lawsuit; Artists Space exhibit.
Plus: City makes deal for Seaport markets (but not New Amsterdam Market); 1WTC observation deck; new Thai in FiDi; Verizon building starts its new life; praising 92YTribeca; Brookfield Place's ambitions; Gwyneth's new book.
Plus: Free type exhibit; Barry's Bootcamp to sell food; Historic Front Street delay; Shigure ramen; Seaport restaurant sues; the Butterfly's old-fashioned recipe; 99 John sale; Complete Body gym.
Plus: City Council hearing about Pier 17 and the other Seaport buildings; the history of 120 Broadway; boorish behavior at JPMorgan Chase.
Also on Community Board 1's March agendas: The proposed Hudson River Park tax; Fresh Direct's ever-present trucks; public art in Tribeca Park; Bogardus Plaza; 502 Canal; a big Broadway cultural project; and more. / 1 comment
And a total denial of Lohan's involvement. Plus: 1 York buyer; checking in with Merchants Hospitality; snow removal atop 1 World Trade Center; Seaport summer concerts. / 2 comments
(Except the big "Seaport" sign.) Plus: Racial bias in the NYPD's First Precinct; Pier A delayed; American Flatbread reactions; Park 51-related lawsuit; Pathmark site to become apartments.
There's a long, long way to go. In the meantime, please support the businesses that are open! / 1 comment
Plus: Mooncake Foods opens in FiDi; report on new raw-food restaurant; Seaport sign called a "blight"; 1 White for sale; World Trade Center security; Freedom Tower racism; American Flatbread review; Chambers real estate; daycare center closing. / 1 comment
Spas……we need more nail spas. — Francesco / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
You are absolutely right. Tribeca has become a soulless land of chain cafés, spas and orthodontists. All about Tribeca moms... — R. / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
Looking at other people = fun. Being looked at = not so fun. This is (still) a gross invasion of... — Downtown Dad Again / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
The photograph begs the question: when is that scaffolding coming down? Seems a very very long time that it has... — George Bacon / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
ITS BACK BETTER THAN EVER! BEST LOCAL PLACE FOR A DRINK AND GOOD FOOD!!! CANT WAIT FOR LUNCH!!! — AA / North Bar is closing for the summer — and will reopen as something new
Since this issue is in play again, I'll opine that the "fluid boundaries between public and private space" is an... — Gary / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
I think you would feel differently if your private moments with your children were being surveilled and photographed. People shouldn't... — Fiona / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor