"I felt pressure to do justice to the building," says Dr. Mark J. Mohrmann of his spiffy new café and cocktail bar in the Woolworth Building. "We're right off the lobby! You can't compete with it, but we could at least be in the ballpark." / 1 comment
Plus: Sifting through school-related data; the city established an Office of Nightlife; 66-story Fulton Street tower has topped out.
Plus: App users get to change the colors of the 1WTC antenna; history of a Greenwich Street building; floorectomy at the Woolworth Building penthouse; Broadway vendor market; Reade mess cleaned up; Summer Streets in August. / 10 comments
Plus: New veterinary office; Al Gore will be in Tribeca; Citigroup's façade creeps upward; two film/TV shoots; military flyover today; inactivity at 30 Warren; police placard corruption. / 9 comments
Plus: The other restaurant opening on Park Place; a rare peek inside the ground floor of 60 Hudson; Arlo hotel retail space for rent; Soho Arts Network's Downtown Culture Walk includes two Tribeca galleries. / 10 comments
The Woolworth Tower Kitchen restaurant in the Woolworth Building is now the Wooly Public, as if it's an offshoot of the Wooly private-event space and the Wooly Daily café.
Plus: Child thief strikes at the Conrad hotel; fashion designer Joseph Altuzarra; Battery Park City landlord settles federal civil-rights lawsuit; 4 World Trade Center is fully leased; Robert De Niro doubles down on anti-vaccine nonsense.
Plus: The official Taylor Swift shrine; floor-plan changes at the Woolworth Building condos; funky FiDi clock getting fixed; health inspectors infested the Taste of the Seaport; naked Hillary Clinton statue; man jumped in front of a subway train; John Street church.
Plus: Ducklings in peril; new photographers' tour of the Woolworth Building; opening forecast for Heyday facial spa; forum on changes to South End Avenue; FiDi Sephora closing. / 8 comments
Plus: City employee arrested for dealing drugs at the Municipal Building; Q&A with Silver seat contender Yuh-Line Niou; short fiction about a guy who mugs a Tribecan for kicks. / 1 comment
And it looks cool. Plus: The Tunnel to Towers race once again annoys residents; mysterious photo in a Duane Street window; trove of old Tribeca photos; skyscraper mashup; new Seaport building. / 18 comments
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