Plus Fred Astaire Downtown celebrates five years; Taryn Toomey steps down at The Class; finding humor in spotted lantern flies. / 2 comments
Plus: Allegations that an area chef behaved inappropriately; the Sunday routine of fitness guru Taryn Toomey; two art fairs going on now; Michel Parmentier show reviewed. / 3 comments
Plus: Drew Barrymore's local recommendations; the menu at FiDi's forthcoming Fuku fast-food restaurant; actor Matthew Perry is living here; 1 White's owner got a loan for the renovation; Terroir's Paul Grieco now that the wine revolution has been won. / 1 comment
Plus: The New Yorker visits Taryn Toomey's fitness class; 3 Hearts Café at Tracy Anderson's studio; questions about resiliency funding; phone snatching and other thefts. / 1 comment
Plus: Taryn Toomey's "intentional" new fitness studio; nic-fit theft; public art commemorating Little Syria in new FiDi park.
There has been a lot of depressing news lately, and we likely haven't heard the last of it, so let's focus on the positive (for one post, anyway). Here are 11 things to look forward to in Lower Manhattan in coming months. / 4 comments
Plus: Activity in a former phone store; Bâtard chef to cook at North End Grill for a night; an amazing panorama of City Hall area in 1908; "Where in Tribeca...?" remains unsolved. / 5 comments
Plus: Opening forecast for Taryn Toomey's new studio; the history of 311 Broadway; Community Board 1 discussion about the Battery Park City Authority's plan for South End Avenue. / 1 comment
Fitness guru Taryn Toomey has found a space on Park Place for The Class, as her popular, peripatetic regimen is known.
I think you would feel differently if your private moments with your children were being surveilled and photographed. People shouldn't... — Fiona / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
Truly sad. Got our son's first "Tribeca Cool Kids" clothes there 15 years ago (on sale!) and they couldn't have... — Downtown Dad Again / Koh’s Kids on Greenwich has closed
The graffiti in question looks very similar to the same outside of Target (on the never-ending construction barriers) which questioned... — Downtown Dad Again / Tribeca-branded graffiti on West Broadway
Our apartment was inside the "frozen zone" and when we were finally able to return to it in mid-October, I... — Makes You Go Hmmmm.... / A documentary honors the work of the Sanitation Department after 9/11
I was shocked when I was walking around Tribeca. I've been living away, so coming back now and seeing so... — Van / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
Or make it a mall of counterfeiters, like a Needle Park or, better yet, the modern-day Essex Market of counterfeiting.... — James Bogardus / Tribeca-branded graffiti on West Broadway
The Starbucks on Chambers and W. Broadway is definitely popular and it's situated in a dream spot considering the subway... — Jslv / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow