Plus: An endorsement of Christopher Marte; thefts, including one at gunpoint; rave review for Ato restaurant; Spring Studios to become Fashion Week hub; artist Rosalyn Drexler. / 5 comments
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 view from inside 187 Franklin's flaming façade; skeleton at City Hall Park; Blue Ribbon Federal Grill signage; group show about "the nature of presence"; the history of Franklin Place. / 3 comments
Plus: Real estate hunt involves Tribeca; Independent art fair is happening now; revised accounting regarding 133 Greenwich sale; Maman has left the ICP Museum.
Discussed at last night's meeting: Plans for a new piano bar; Laughing Man's proposed Street Seats expansion; big events at Spring Studios; booze at Tribeca's Kitchen; sidewalk cafés at Yves and Añejo; Lower Manhattan Community Church block party; early-morning deliveries at the Tribeca Family Festival. / 9 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: How the World Trade Center mall got to be so big; celebrating Pisillo Italian Panini; the 1801 house on Hudson Street that didn't survive; Demi Lovato to sing from a rooftop. / 1 comment
Plus: Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen reportedly bought in Tribeca; Marv Albert also bought here; Pier 17 forecast; Eataly opens next week; Spring Studios restaurant pop-up; Café Grumpy in FiDi; new paint color and organ for St. Paul's Chapel. / 1 comment
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
Plus: Interior renderings of 70 Vestry; Corlandt Street subway station forecast; elevator accident; Governors Island events; is Trump Soho one reason Donald Trump won't release his tax returns? / 3 comments
James! Thank you ! I love the photo. — Native NYer / Upon the Palace has opened
So by extension, ill will toward the future employees of Hobby Lobby? — Bobbie / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Smartphones and doom scrolling has sucked the life out of our kids. Sometimes you need reminders like this to really... — hmmm / Capturing the lives of Tribeca youth before smartphones took hold
How many times, on a summer afternoon, did I sit on the doorsill at Dudley's Paw with Dudley beside me.... — John Willenbecher / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Yum yum. Looking forward to going here! — SW / Upon the Palace has opened
Yes!!!! My lady and I have been BEGGING for one of these!!!! — Jack Gaff / Chambers Street Wines is opening a wine bar on… Chambers
so, no RIOTS or claims of a “rigged election”; is that the point? 🤔 — baba galacticus / It’s quiet out there