Newsletter: Jan. 28

MORE GOOD COFFEE
Jack’s Stir Brew is opening in Tribeca.

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SPOTLIGHT: JOSEPH CARINI CARPETS
Joe Carini’s obsessiveness is what makes his carpets so precious: “The color and material and care it’s made with—the conditions it’s made under—that’s its history, and that’s what you’re buying.” Read the Q&A. And thanks to Claudine Williams for the lovely photos!

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A NEW DAY FOR BATTERY PARK CITY?
State senator Daniel Squadron and assemblymember Deborah Glick “announced legislation requiring majority local community representation on the Battery Park City Authority Board,” according to a press release.

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 1/25: Winter sales. Plus: Salt Shed photos, signage, and noise report; snow wave; wooden walkway at Hudson River Park; Franklin Place façade.
••• 1/26: Kiki de Montparnesse is open (photo by Steven Sclaroff). Plus: Rosie Pope sample sale this week; Tenoverten expands to Texas; a note from the landlords of the George Taylor Specialties space; Todd Snyder’s Tribeca T-shirt; Canal Street “bridge”; L.A. restaurant advice sought.
••• 1/27: Walking the plank. Plus: The new salon on Jay has a name; Num Pang opens on Water Street today; pretty exhibit at Art Projects International; revival of a play about a Bouley reservationist; the Flying Karamazov Brothers.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 1/25: The Tribecan who snowboarded through the snowstorm. Plus: Recapping the forthcoming residential towers; kids sledded in Washington Market Park; the story of a 400-year-old sketch.
••• 1/26: Triraqis caught on video—with one impersonating a police officer, no less (above). Plus: Why there are so many sidewalk sheds; American Cut opening a Midtown outpost; the Dead Rabbit accuses a bar in Iceland of ripping it off; the conversion of 70 Pine, including a rendering of the restaurant from the Spotted Pig folks.
••• 1/28: The FiDi tower with a new school at its base. Plus: Parking garage under elementary school causes parental consternation; Tribeca loft part of contested $100 million inheritance.

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GEORGE TAYLOR SPECIALTIES IS CLOSING
It was founded in 1869, selling ship parts on Water Street, and it has been in Tribeca for 24 years.

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COLOR ME MINE IS MOVING
It’ll be within walking distance of Reade Street.

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