Plus: When Frederick Douglass stayed on Lispenard; anti-Trump protest in Foley Square; the world of fountain pens; Matt Abramcyk's Gowanus hotel is on the market before opening.
Plus: Virtual tour of the Four Seasons hotel; Tribeca Film Festival dates; World Trade Center mall postcard; anti-TriBeCa petition; Robert Reitzfeld paintings at Front Art Space. / 1 comment
Plus: The economics of film festivals; Wyeth and its owner, John Birch; hit-and-run driver to face prison time; looking back at the city's first railroad line; push-polling incident gets weirder. / 1 comment
Plus: Harrison Street townhouse for sale; guessing why there were no Tribeca Film Festival Drive-In screenings this year; Poets House's Brooklyn Bridge walk; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council open studios; Yasuo Nomura exhibit.
Plus: Zadig & Voltaire sample sale today; Tribeca's Kitchen has reopened; Beach sign restoration; actual work happening at City Vineyard; 56 Leonard's final windows; huge Tribeca Film Fest street fair is this Saturday; no Drive-In screenings this year. / 7 comments
Plus: When did Bubby's stop being open 24 hours?; 11 N. Moore upgraded its garage doors; Bloomberg's Tribeca Film Festival trailer includes closed businesses; more World Trade Center updates; pizza box gets ahead of itself. / 2 comments
Plus: Open studios at the New York Academy of Art; "Ghostbusters" celebration at the Tribeca Film Festival street fair; shoots for "Elementary" and "Everyone Speaks Food"; those Apt. 5 umbrellas. / 1 comment
Plus: Burglary at Estancia 460; Santander Bank robbery; actor interviewed at Sushi Azabu; the race for Sheldon Silver's seat is a weird one; how the Tribeca Film Festival is going way beyond film. / 1 comment
Plus: Downtown Alliance responds to the "FiDi Landgrab" post; "Youarenowhere" extended at 3LD Art and Technology Center; kids' classics onstage; Robert Janz posters. / 1 comment
Plus: The plan to put tolls on the East River bridges moves forward; alleged attempted rape at the Conrad hotel; Community Board 1 wants the new FiDi school to be bigger; Tribeca Film festival pulls the anti-vaccine film; Good Stock. / 1 comment
Plus: Robert De Niro says he personally wanted the anti-vaccine film in the Tribeca Film Festival; group robberies at Patron of the New and American Apparel. / 2 comments
Plus: New buildings but not new schools; teachers told not to criticize testing; men's fashion shoot. / 2 comments
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