Plus: Assault with a bottle; history of a Broadway building; Newark airport transportation; more on the return of the "Sphere" to the World Trade Center; "holiday lounge" at Brookfield Place. / 3 comments
Plus: Israeli fashion pop-up on Greenwich; no reopening date yet for Bar Cyrk; "Sphere" sculpture finally unveiled at Liberty Park; dance studio for adults opened in Tribeca; matching donations for "Tribute in Light"; what looks like an Adidas store on Sixth Avenue; exhibit of fashion illustration.
Plus: Missed opportunity at the 9/11 Memorial; the Sphere sculpture waits to be unveiled; Park Place sidewalk shed seems to finally be coming down; more eclipse photos; Canal Street Market event to benefit Guatemalan girls. / 15 comments
Plus: Wichcraft's BLT is back; the "Sphere" sculpture has been packed up for its move; temporary Muji store; new street south of Liberty Park; vacant lot in FiDi inspires dreams of a park; "Law & Order: SVU." / 1 comment
Plus: "Sphere" sculptor Fritz Koenig died; Dean & DeLuca on Wall Street said to involve a diner; the Bayonne Bridge. / 2 comments
Plus: Three other stores that pulled out of the World Trade Center mall; Community Board 1 wants the Sphere out of Liberty Park; Black Tap on the Lower East Side; China Blue owners to open Williamsburg restaurant. / 1 comment
Plus: Actor Keegan-Michael Key has a home in Tribeca; how actor Denis Leary spends his Sundays; Battery Park City student to represent the U.S. at International Olympiad of Informatics; art dealer Dick Bellamy. / 1 comment
Plus: Kid gets head stuck in fence; possible home for the "Sphere"; visitors to World Trade Center observatory far below forecast; FiDi arcade proponents deny posing as councilmember; Wavertree returning early; subsidizing artists.
Plus: Cortlandt Alley topper sent back to drawing board; "Sphere" sculpture moved; the poor South Street Seaport Museum.
Plus: "Sphere" agitation; FiDi juice bar update; breaking fast; Bethenny Frankel.
Plus: Where the "Sphere" might end up; Hudson Square rezoning process begins; Jungsik on Deathwatch; kosher restaurant in Soho; Thom Browne goes Grey; 93 Worth rendering. / 1 comment
Plus: Another food-truck clusterpark; Woolworth Building's top 25 floors sold (now what?); Demi Monde; 9/11 Memorial and the Sphere; homeless man beaten. / 1 comment
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