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CurbedWire: Love in the Air at 88 Leonard, Marketing Gramercy Starck, Hotel Boom on W. 26 th Street
TRIBECA—When final we heard from former Development Du Jour 88 Leonard, it was in the context of an “affordable rental lottery.” We are happy to present an update about how life at the building is coming along, coutesy of a special correspondent: “I wound up at 88 leonard final night for about…
After 37 Years, TriBeCa Eatery To shut, as Bouley Expands
A TriBeCa restaurant enlarged known for shut community ties will shut its doors tomorrow and a new restaurant venture from David Bouley could move into the space as soon as Thursday, the landlord for the building, Kenneth DuBow, said yesterday. The Delphi Restaurant, which opened in 1970, served its…
Celebrity Real Estate Wrap: Cats Scratch Fever, Parker Posey Breaks Our Heart, More
1) Andrew Lloyd Webber tried to sell his Trump Tower duplex in 1993, for $7.95 million. next he tried to sell it in 2000, for $15 million. Third time’s a charm, so it’s back on the market … for $22.5 million! The ubiquitous Dolly Lenz has the off-Broadway listing. Webber is looking to buy “an …
PriceSpotter Big Reveal: Tribeca Triple approach Bobby’s Place
Location: 111 Hudson Street
Asking: $3,995,000
We knew the three Tribeca lofts being offered as one full-floor package would be tricky, and it was. No one guessed the right asking price. There was certainly a lot of criticism about the proposed floorplans, and that comment—from Stephen—w…
Nabe Names: Not fairly Tribeca, Not fairly FiDi
We get a lot of emails from readers suggesting new neighborhood nicknames. So many, in fact, that we once held a contest to celebrate those submissions. humans come up with new identities for the smallest and most insignificant of microhoods, and usually—brutal honesty alert—they sound a lit…
Tribeca Triple approach Bobby’s Place
PriceSpotter is Curbed’s asking price guessing game. We give you some details and pictures of an apartment listing, you take a crack at the price in the comments. Tomorrow we reveal the reply. No cheating!
What/Where: Three pre-war lofts to be combined into one fantabulous full-floor unit on …
DeNiro’s Greenwich Hotel to Squeak When Walked Upon
As late, the buzz has been a little too quiet at Robert DeNiro’s long-awaited Greenwich Hotel at 377 Greenwich Street in Tribeca. About a month back, HotelChatter had the word that the opening has been delayed again until early 2008, but when we dropped by that week, from the external at least, …
On the Racked: Tribeca Whole Foods Coming, UWS ‘Chainstore Wasteland,’ Steve Madden Does the LES
And now, the latest from Racked, covering retail and shopping from the sidewalks up.
[Photo of the Whole Foods Tribeca site, taken in 2006, from A analysis Of Will]
1) Tribeca: Racked looks into the case of the future Tribeca Whole Foods and finds that “the Grocercy Store the press forgot” i…
Tribeca Gets Soapy, increasingly Madison Speculation
TRIBECA—Phase 2 of the “Pearline Soap Atelier” (above) development on Washington amidst Vestry and Laight (across from the Riverlofts development) is moving forward rapidly. Phase 1 is fully standing and brickwork appears to be total and Phase 2 concrete pouring is moving forward
very quickl…
Tavern on the Green Hit with Labor Suit, Problems at Wallse, Samba Le?
UPPER WEST SIDE—Tavern on the Green has been slapped with a labor discrimination suit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Crain’s: “The complaint, filed in federal district court, accuses management of the legendary Central Park eatery of engaging in “severe and pervasive sexual…
