Newsletter: June 9

BOULEY BOMBSHELLS
The flagship Bouley restaurant will close in a few months, eventually reopening in a much smaller space on Harrison—and that’s just the start of the changes that David Bouley has planned.

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SPOTLIGHT: KINGS PHARMACY
“We try to stock as much as we can in the small space we have so that we can be the go-to place for a little of everything,” says Al Solman, whose Kings Pharmacy has been at the center of Tribeca life since 1998. Read the Q&A, with photos by Claudine Williams.

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NEW BUILDING REPORT CARD: 15 RENWICK
Is the big new building on Soho’s quiet Renwick Street better than what preceded it? Does it resemble the rendering at all? Does it add to the neighborhood or detract from it? A review.

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 6/6: Signage for Harold’s Meat and Three. Plus: Washington Market Park’s summer concert series; group shows at Taymour Grahne and hpgrp Gallery; Bubby’s in Tokyo.
••• 6/7: Store employee trapped by new sidewalk. Plus: City Vineyard signage and trellises; the new waxing salon on Chambers; W. Broadway gallery is open again; supernatural pilot shooting on Warren.
••• 6/8:  More high-end sushi. Plus: Jewelry boutique has second thoughts about opening here; romantic comedy shoot; ugly benches for the Broadway bus bulb; fiery Franklin façade.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 6/7: Salted caramel brownies. Plus: A tall Tribecan; Battery Park City tween on Broadway; what to do about a pothead neighbor; the changing downtown skyline; Community Board 1 votes against Raccoon Lodge spinoff; breakfast coming to two Tribeca elementary schools.
••• 6/8: Inside Tribeca’s new private club (above). Plus: Phone snatched through restaurant window; new restaurants Le Coucou and Chikarashi; ticket vendors forced out of the Battery are now plaguing nearby streets.

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NOSY NEIGHBOR: GREATEST HITS (DISC ONE)
You don’t have to be Gladys Kravitz to care about what’s happening in your neighborhood. In this “Greatest Hits” roundup: Questions about art, architecture, history, the Blues Brothers, newspaper boxes, and more.

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