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. / 3 comments
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
As I see it, it all matters. A civilized city should have good solutions to all of these issues. — Marcus / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
With Paper Source now closed inside Maman, where are people buying greeting cards/wrapping paper locally? (I want to avoid Hobby... — Sara / Seen & Heard: Maman is back open
I prefer the stickers to homeless, junkies, and excrement from dogs or humans. Focus on what matters maybe? — Thomas / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
Agreed about the sidewalk stickers, along with the painted on / sprayed on sidewalk ads and "clever" saying. Also, what... — Marcus / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
Those sidewalk stickers are a new out of home ad treatment; they are everywhere, they are hideous and yes, they... — nichole / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
I love this interview. What that NC senatorial candidate said about Morris -- that he captured her voice uniquely well... — Komanoff / TCQ&A: Morris Katz
a reminder to parents and care givers: Duane Park Patisserie gives homemade treats to trick or treaters from toddlers through... — madeline c lanciani / Halloween in Washington Market Park — and more to come