2009 Buy-Local Gift Guide (Parts 1 & 2) • Party-planning tips from a "Real Housewife of NYC" • Easy $50 for Amex cardholders • Much more
More North is closing Dec. 12 • Frites 'n' Meats open for dinner? • "Public School Zoning Mayhem" • Get a $2 gift card at Kiva Cafe • And more
A new bar/restaurant coming to the Grace space? • Curbed on Trump Soho • Shoofly • BabyCakes at 92YTribeca • Downtown Alliance's "Giveaway"
With titles such as “To a Young Wretch,” “One Step Backward Taken,” “Closed for Good,” and “On Making Certain Anything Has Happened,” the Christmas cards* sent out by Robert Frost from the 1930s to the 1960s aren’t exactly traditional holiday greetings—and that’s their charm (well, that and the marvelous art direction). Poets House’s free exhibit […]
“You can have the best caterer or the coolest venue," says Jennifer Gilbert, founder of Tribeca event-planners Save the Date and an upcoming member of Real Housewives of New York City. "But if people leave starving, then the party will be remembered that way.” / 1 comment
Spend $300 at certain shop and restaurants and get $50 back • Mirror, mirror • Arts and crafts sale at the Smithsonian's NMAI this weekend
Great gift suggestions from Warren and Murray • Best Santa laps • Soho Photo opening • Robert Frost's Christmas cards • Stinko for gingko! • And more
I like purchasing gifts online as much as the next lazy person, but nothing compares to seeing, touching, maybe even smelling the merchandise.
Battery Park City's ice rink opens (with discounts for BPC residents) • A literary costume party • Punk history at B&N Tribeca • And more
Ice-skating next to falling glass? • Monday's school-zoning meeting • Fiterman Hall demolished • Romanian Film Festival • Escape from Precinct One • More
Photos of revamped Cortlandt subway station • Hello, Little Pie Company! • Whirling dervishes • What the Dickens is a burlesque Christmas Carol?
One Cortlandt R/W platform reopens today • BPC ice-skating rink debuting Friday? • New bakery on Chambers • Squadron on FDR mess • And much more
Even though the location was busy, the setup isn’t aligned with the renewed architectural focus of the brand. There is... — Matt / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
Spas……we need more nail spas. — Francesco / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
You are absolutely right. Tribeca has become a soulless land of chain cafés, spas and orthodontists. All about Tribeca moms... — R. / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
Looking at other people = fun. Being looked at = not so fun. This is (still) a gross invasion of... — Downtown Dad Again / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
The photograph begs the question: when is that scaffolding coming down? Seems a very very long time that it has... — George Bacon / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
ITS BACK BETTER THAN EVER! BEST LOCAL PLACE FOR A DRINK AND GOOD FOOD!!! CANT WAIT FOR LUNCH!!! — AA / North Bar is closing for the summer — and will reopen as something new
Since this issue is in play again, I'll opine that the "fluid boundaries between public and private space" is an... — Gary / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor