The former speaker of the state assembly who represented downtown and who was convicted twice on corruption charges, was sentenced to 78 months in prison in July.
Plus Blue School launches online program; A Summer Day street cafe; Mini Melanie delivers; a members-only roofdeck, yours for the summer. / 13 comments
Plus play pickleball on Wednesdays in Battery Park City; three fancy pop-up restaurants from afar at Spring Studios; a look back to the 1940 Vesuvio Bakery.
Plus: Favorite Halloween costume; Park Place tower crests buildings to the north; Spring Place opened a Beverly Hills outpost; "NSFW" art exhibit; homeless people in Fulton Center; "Search Party" shoot. / 5 comments
Plus: Yves has a new chef; pop-up dinners at Spring Place; leadership changes at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. / 1 comment
Plus: Vin Sur Vingt reportedly opened last night; how to help street trees; DanceBody does some venting; no word on when Breads Bakery might debut; Spring Place private club is expanding; a good source for nuts? / 1 comment
Also on Community Board 1's July agendas: The Five Boro Bike Tour; FiDi mermaid at risk; the community advisory committee overseeing Spring Studios; new storefront for Tre Sorelle; much more. / 11 comments
Plus: "Mr. Robot" is shooting here on Friday; Shinola is opening a store in Soho; activity in the storefront next to Think Coffee; the newsstand at W. Broadway and Leonard. / 2 comments
Plus: Another store at the World Trade Center mall has closed; Bar Works has opened; sidewalk cafés are allowed on Chambers; Downtown Wine & Liquors is nearer the end. / 17 comments
Plus: The recipe for Maman's chocolate chip cookies; more on last month's shellfish robbery; Parisian caviar pop-up to extend its run. / 7 comments
Plus: Downtown Alliance's founding chairman, Robert Douglass, has died; night-vision cameras at Battery Park City ball fields; pop-up caviar restaurant; Gateway plaza tenants accuse landlord of fraud; Larry Silverstein is moving downtown. / 2 comments
Plus: Phone snatched through restaurant window; new restaurants Le Coucou and Chikarashi; ticket vendors forced out of the Battery are now plaguing nearby streets. / 2 comments
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