Spruce Street School and the Crime Victims Treatment Center have auctions online. Plus the 5 Boro Bike Tour will take over Church on May 2; Buy Direct has closed. / 3 comments
Remote or not, just how many kids are off the local schools' rolls? And could more kids end up skipping town? / 6 comments
Plus: Parking garage under elementary school causes parental consternation; Tribeca loft part of contested $100 million inheritance. / 1 comment
Plus: Flooding forecast for Lower Manhattan; Bouley chef makes sexual-harassment accusation; another FiDi building getting converted to rentals; principal profiled. / 1 comment
Plus: Governors Island opens tomorrow; rendering of the revamped Verizon Building; schools are passing on the 9/11 Museum; new tower by the Manhattan Bridge; ex-Tribecans now in Harlem.
Plus: New food delivery service; hit-and-run victim speaks out; Anthony Bourdain food hall not happening at 3WTC; bill to allow dogs at sidewalk cafés; Bradley Cooper's house hunt; Airbnb user's legal trouble; Daniel Squadron; FiDi Samaritan attacked and robbed. / 3 comments
Plus: Grand Banks's new food menu; "Head of Goliath" reception; settlement over Battery Park City security abuse; is Beekman Street safer now?; Austrian restaurant opening in FiDi; screening of never-before-seen Hitchcock documentary.
Plus: Bâtard wins the big James Beard Award; police seeking witness of school hit-and-run; Sessanta Italian restaurant to open soon; affordable housing at risk. / 6 comments
Plus: Fulton Center delayed for as much as three months; Steven Soderbergh lists his apartment; vacant lot would make a nice Greenmarket. / 1 comment
Plus: 100 Franklin moving forward; possible rethink of Spruce Street School; new FiDi beer hall; Il Mulino steakhouse; washing the Gehry building's windows; Southbridge Towers yard sale. / 8 comments
Plus: Watts Street demolition victims; Bakerie on Broome; pediatric emergency room; fabric store closed; Oscar Niemeyer bench; Seaport party. / 2 comments
"They stand beneath the classroom windows, yelling and chanting at full voice, sometimes bringing whistles and even air horns (!)," writes Cecile Heron, mom of two Spruce Street students. "I can't imagine having a calm conversation with them." / 8 comments
This Streetsblog post is over 4 years old, with no clear update since then. I see the Tribeca Trib also... — Elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Eliz, I tried to make clear my disgust and disdain for placard abuse. I validated your outrage at the top... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
https://tribecacitizen.com/2026/06/17/icymi-the-speed-limit-is-now-20-mph/ — Tribeca Citizen / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Ah yes, the city was given permission to lower limits, I just didn't know that Chambers had gotten the treatment... — malcolm / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
If free and easy on-street parking isn't compatible with lower Manhattan, then why is it available to city workers? The... — Elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Apparently the speed limit is now 20. No one would ever know that since the street is usually backed up... — elizabeth / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses
Sorry, your lone justifiable outrage IMO is that cops, firemen, court officers and other apparatchiks get free parking spaces. We... — Komanoff / In the News: Hunting down parking placard abuses