By KAITLYN MEADE | It may not be typical park equipment, but the piano placed in Tribeca’s Washington Market Park is open for anyone to play, until June 16. Washington Market Park received one of 88 uniquely decorated pianos from the Sing for Hope organization — one for every key on a piano — which [...]
Continue reading …BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | It was raining on May 28 as Kevin Burke, Con Edison’s chairperson and C.E.O. stood in front of an array of high voltage electrical coils and transformers at Con Ed’s East 13th St. substation to explain what the company has been doing and plans to do to prepare for the [...]
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By KAITLYN MEADE | With a shortage of public preschool seats in the area, two new, private preschools are opening up in Battery Park City this fall on South End Ave. A new Montessori school will open in September on the ground floor of the Regatta Building at 21 South End Ave., by the Battery [...]
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By KAITLYN MEADE | Independence Plaza North is backing away from plans to deny the use of a new gym in the building to its lower rent tenants. When the small gym facility and playroom on the second floor of the Tribeca complex’s building at 40 Harrison St. opened earlier this month, an email went out [...]
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By KAITLYN MEADE | The Friends of Delury Square Park are hosting their first Spring Planting Day on Sat., June 1 to spruce up the small but well-loved — and used — green space on the corner of Fulton and Gold Sts. This is the group’s second big event since its creation last year. “It’s [...]
Continue reading …Sunday Parking Rules in effect MONDAY Memorial Day Memorial Day weekend is upon us! This means Lower Manhattan will see monster traffic jams at area bridges and tunnels on Thursday and Friday. Hardest hit will be the Holland Tunnel approaches from Canal, Varick, and Broome Sts. The Broome St. back-up, around 4 p.m. both days, may extend all the way to Lafayette St. The [...]
Continue reading …By KAITLYN MEADE | A new ballet school opened last week in Battery Park City, focused on making ballet accessible to young children, as parents enroll their kids in dance lessons at younger and younger ages. Children’s Warehouse, a ballet studio for children ages three months to six years, opened its doors at The Club [...]
Continue reading …Vendor vandal A man was arrested for stealing a vendor’s property from the corner of Canal St. and West Broadway on Mon., May 13. Shamale Gillian, 23, was arrested and charged with grand larceny after he was discovered to be carrying the vendor’s stolen property, police said. The vendor outside 385 Broadway spoke little English, [...]
Continue reading …Man beaten brutally outside Soho bar Police are investigating the brutal robbery of a man outside a Soho bar and nightclub last month. The victim, 27, ended up unconscious in the hospital with no memory of how he got there, police reported. The incident occurred shortly after the W.i.P. club closed, while hundreds of people, [...]
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BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER When Daniel Goldwyn, an information technology manager from Newark, boarded the South Street Seaport Museum’s schooner Pioneer on Saturday, May 4, the crew applauded. That was probably not the reception that Goldwyn expected when he decided to take a two-hour sail around New York harbor aboard the “nice, antique boat,” as [...]
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