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Originally Posted by chris08876
That will soon change. All the new residential will make it more lively. The area near the historic waterfront is full of nightlife.
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Hmm. Disagree.
The seaport has horrible nightlife and it isn't for New Yorkers - lots and lots of tourists, and that's all. But those are the only people who go to the Seaport, anyways, because it's basically like a mini-Disney main street.
The FiDi is changing but despite adding something on the order of 10-20K residents since 9/11, it remains dead at night. Many buildings are converting and several are rising, and the aggregate effect will eventually make it livelier, but I think the people moving there are part of the problem - and the lack of nightlife.
Many in the FiDi are families, especially if you cross over to BPC - which is totally sterile and not a real place. These people are in bed by 8PM etc as well, and don't exactly contribute to vibrancy; the vast majority of FiDi yuppies also have real careers and lack the Bohemian lifestyle that gives rise to nightlife like you see in the East Village or Williamsburg - they party in the Meatpacking, if they party at all.
Finally, on a tangent, it's irritating that Curbed used the Tribeca Citizen as a source when YIMBY noted this development over two weeks ago - whatever - but Curbed is a bad aggregator with no original content. What a glorious photo of the renderings, btw - you can't see anything at all.
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As far as the facade goes, that's like the world's worst rendering. Wait until we have some better shots before judging. To me that almost looks like a Google Earth representation model for scale purposes only.
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