Plus: A show of Tribeca's pioneer artists; Bar Cyrk is open; admiring the Oculus; a crappy Halloween store that might be worth visiting; 30 Park Place's outbuilding; the Traipsing Tribeca shopping event; "Bluff" shoot. / 1 comment
(...instead of "TriBeCa"). Plus: Luaka Bop anniversary celebrations in Cortlandt Alley; another great Oculus shot; Front Art Space show; Washington Street demolition.
Plus: More on the Morsi trattoria; brunch at Washington Market Tavern; White Street renovation; historical pic of W. Broadway; 1 World Trade Center plaza; Exceed open house; Oculus quills.
Plus: Don Hill's is being reborn; why the WTC Transportation Hub is a mess; the war over the WTC's Tower 5, a.k.a. the old Deutsche Bank site; ambulances dawdling on way to Battery Park City; Alex Birkenstock. / 3 comments
Plus: Corner Gourmet's upgrade; Fulton Center logo; Zara on Broadway; World Trade Center Transportation Hub in profile; Maxwell's awning; Nicky's changes its name; 19 Park Place sales office; Ryan McGinniss art signage. / 3 comments
Plus: Inside a smoke-ravaged IPN hallway; WTC Transportation Hub; Spin Ceramics; European Wax Center; Pen Parentis literary salon; corner deli revamp; filmmakers' post-production facility now on Desbrosses. / 4 comments
Plus: Margaret Chin responds to New Amsterdam Market letter; Brandy Library's new bar; sandwich delivery on Saturday; David Rockwell book; Juice Press; Quiznos reopened; CB1 to discuss drones. / 1 comment
Plus: World Trade Center Transportation Hub update; Brookfield Place views; more fuel for a Broadway conversion rumor; Tribeca Meet & Greet; X concerts.
Plus: The next New Amsterdam Market (and fundraiser); another Tutto Il Giorno; Chase does the right thing; Lilac photo exhibit; cute dog for adoption; bird's-eye pix of the Fulton Center and WTC hub.
Plus: World Trade Center transportation hub has many more quills; more "construction kittens"; new garden celebrating immigration; 19 Park Place's "rear-yard equivalent" and a neighboring tree. / 3 comments
Plus: Checking in on the Battery Park seashell carousel; World Trade Center armadillo sports more quills; good deal on Pilates; "Cutie and the Boxer."
The most interesting structure at the new World Trade Center is about to get a lot more interesting. (Are we calling them horns? Or would spikes or quills might be more appropriate...?) / 4 comments
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