NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: BEST FRIENDS PET ADOPTION CENTER
Widely admired animal-rescue organization Best Friends Animal Society has opened its first adoption center in New York City, just above Canal. If you think animal shelters are depressing, this one will change your mind: It’s bright and clean and joyful. Take a look around.

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SMORGASBURG TAKES MANHATTAN
Smorgasburg and the Brooklyn Flea are partnering on a new market in the area. Starting in August, the vendors will be there every day, all year long. Above: the latest food fad to launch at Smorgasburg, Pop Pasta’s spaghetti donut.

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 4/3: Anthropologie opens this week. Plus: The revamped Frankly Wines has debuted; new sunglasses store and cafés at the World Trade Center mall; Yorganic has closed for a renovation; Khe-Yo’s proposed sidewalk seating; the “Love” sign atop the James hotel; a suggestion for City Winery.
••• 4/4: Teen arrested. Plus: The Fika on Duane has closed; local businesses offering discounts today to highlight gender pay gap; new signage at the Roxy Hotel; a second-grader’s disappointment; that pro-Trump march.
••• 4/5: Inside the Soho Trader Joe’s. Plus: New Con Edison transformer being installed two nights next week; Jack’s Stir Brew Coffee confirms Reade Street café (above); locally known restaurateur involved with popular spaghetti donut; Broadway condo progress; El Ad’s disrespect for the neighborhood.

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COMMUNITY BOARD 1 APRIL AGENDAS
What’s scheduled to be discussed: A second try for the Roc space; new sculpture in Tribeca Park; beer-and-wine license for the Truffles convenience store; Khe-Yo sidewalk seating; changing the direction of Beaver Street; new windows on Worth Street; much more. Read the annotated agendas.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 4/3: El Internacional art restaurant. Plus: How a Tribeca family copes with a child’s gender transition; more thefts; Testu dishes are being previewed at Masa’s happy hour.
••• 4/4: Fragrant Chilean pickpockets. Plus: Photos of the new Nobu in FiDi (above; by Eric Laignel, courtesy of Rockwell Group); renovation at Lower Manhattan’s only hospital; Canal Street topper approved; Tribeca Ball photos; antiques at Gary Graham; top daiquiri; CB1 feeling ignored by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
••• 4/5: The future of J. Crew. Plus: The new sailing programs at North Cove Marina; man robbed while having a seizure; Broad Street conversion to bring 533 more apartments to FiDi.

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THE PARTY IS OVER AT REMIX
The New York State Liquor Authority has revoked Panagiotis Kotsonis’s liquor license for Remix, the club at 27 Park Place that has long antagonized neighbors (most recently by hosting an illegal strip club).

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