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It's not often that I go to the South Street Seaport. It's full of tourists and has become the sort of place--like many in New York-...

A reader writes in with these photos from outside City Hall. A "rich woman" was carrying an anti-Bill de Blasio sign and arguing w...

I received the following note from reader Jim Duffy, along with photos from his friend Amy L. Anderson: In Lower Manhattan, at the corner of...

VANISHED (and then, partly, not) "The books have been seized, librarians have been gassed and jailed ." If this message wasn't...

We hear the old newsstand on Water and Fulton has been Cemusaed. Grieve has a shot of how it was before, a battered green box, tough and re...

One of the last Andrews Coffee Shops in the city has closed. A tipster writes in with photos: " Andrew's Coffee Shop on Pearl and J...

VANISHED This week we heard the sad news that Carmine's at the Seaport closed after 107 years . It never ceases to amaze me how places s...

I visited Governors Island for the first time recently (not the newly opened Water Taxi Beach ) and was immediately taken in by its odd and...

A while ago, Grieve found an article in the Post about how, during this "bummer" recession, we should indulge in an affluent 1950s...

The Waterpod --"a floating, sculptural, eco-habitat designed for the rising tides"--has docked alongside the South Street Seaport,...