Plus: New pre-kindergarten seats; Community Board 1 weighs in on Chase Manhattan Plaza proposal; new Seaport fashion boutique; FiDi bike mugging; Little Park review; when parking spaces become parklets; Orlando Bloom. / 6 comments
Plus: Battery Park City resident found dead; Balducci's rumor; Howard Hughes Corporation asks for after-the-fact demolition permission; downtown gets storm protection funding; visiting the loft of Isabel Rose.
Plus: New renderings of the storm-protection berm; Seaport group makes a counterproposal; Ritz-Carlton looking to go condo; Zipcar thefts. / 3 comments
Plus: Condé Nast bitchfest; Franklin Street "reverse flip"; local politicians talking to other potential Seaport developers; Battery Park City woman in fatal car accident; pre-K proposals for Centre Street; Southbridge Towers lawsuit. / 3 comments
And Hudson to follow in June. Plus: Municipal Art Society comes out against Seaport tower; Tribeca real estate overview; historic ships hoping to dock at Pier 25 and the South Street Seaport; Cheryl Hazan mosaics. / 1 comment
Plus: More on the Supermarket; Fulton Stall Market now open at the South Street Seaport; naming suggestion for West Thames Bridge. / 3 comments
Plus: Orlando Bloom attempts a flip; SmorgasBar returns to the South Street Seaport; Trinity Church seeks community input on its tower; more on Broome Street Bar; 474 Greenwich loft analysis. / 1 comment
Plus: Where the South Street Seaport proposal stands now; more on the idea of tolling East River bridges; Lower Broadway finally getting nicer; Sheldon Silver's school overcrowding task force; new musical about young people; FiDi hotel pipe burst. / 1 comment
Plus: 250 West penthouse sold for way under ask; South Street Seaport air-rights purchase; World Trade Center name rights settlement; religious exemptions for vaccinations. / 4 comments
Plus: Pressed Juicery at the new Equinox; opening date for the Supermarket; marketing materials for 147 Duane storefront; questionable ads. / 3 comments
Also on February’s Community Board 1 agendas: A sidewalk bench in front of Laughing Man; Worth Street construction; new Malaysian restaurant; 101 Murray demolition; Brookfield Place restaurants; pay phones. / 3 comments
Plus: The North Cove Marina meeting (and Michael Fortenbaugh's next move); a peek inside Le District; urging Sheldon Silver to step down; reviving the Gehry Guggenheim design?; local man appointed to Landmarks. / 1 comment
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
Truly sad. Got our son's first "Tribeca Cool Kids" clothes there 15 years ago (on sale!) and they couldn't have... — Downtown Dad Again / Koh’s Kids on Greenwich has closed