STREET ACTIVITY PERMIT: CB1
The organizer for CB1′s street fair on W. Broadway between Chambers and Barclay on Friday, Aug. 10, didn’t show, so the application was held over.

STREET ACTIVITY PERMIT: TRIBECA FAMILY FESTIVAL
The massive annual event will be Saturday, April 28, on Greenwich from Beach to Reade, including on various streets in between. Vote: 8-0. (It was mentioned that Regal still refuses to lease its theaters, so don’t expect many Tribeca Film Festival screenings in the area.)

412 GREENWICH: APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO ZONING RESOLUTION
As I mentioned here, the wonderful single-story parking garage at Greenwich and Laight is doomed. What I hadn’t realized what that the address (412 Greenwich) is also 71 Laight, which I’d written about before and had always thought was 401 Washington, next door. Taconic Investment Partners is buying the site with the garage and 401 Washington (where Capitol Glass once was), combining the two into one development. The facade of the new building at 412 Greenwich will mirror the one at 401 Washington, which will be restored and a penthouse added on top. (I had read about the mirroring, but I thought that was about another building. All the buildings up there do kind of look alike.) Anyway, the current owner of the site didn’t get the paperwork done in time, so the zoning resolution from years ago has to be amended to allow the site to be developed by 2016 (instead of January 2012). CB1 Landmarks Committee, CB1 Tribeca Committee, and CB1 proper had already approved architect Morris Adjmi‘s design years ago. Each building will have around 18 apartments, and there will be separate retail lots on the ground floor (I like the idea of retail, but northwest Tribeca has an awful lot of empty storefronts…). A committee member asked if there was language in the resolution to protect against “density,” which seems to go against CB1′s general goal of affordable housing, but whatever. Any change along those lines would have to go back before Landmarks, which no one wants to do. Pictured (click to enlarge): A rendering, looking southwest, of the new building (where the garage is now), and what the two buildings will look like from Laight. Vote: 7-0; the chair recused himself because his company is involved in the project.

SIDEWALK SEATING PERMIT: TURKS & FROGS
Renewal. Vote: 8-0.

WINE & BEER LICENSE: RBC NYC
Held over at the applicant’s request (the phrase “lease negotiation difficulties” was mentioned).

WINE & BEER LICENSE: MASLOW 6 WINE BAR
As we could tell from the agenda, Maslow 6 wine shop is taking over Vinovino (which has closed, by the way). Maslow’s Keri Jackson says we can expect more reasonably priced wines (good!), that it’ll be a place for people who want to appreciate wine or just drink it. Also: better beers, more food, and real tables and chairs. A potential menu is pictured; click away. Vote: 8-0.

IN CONCLUSION
There was a discussion about the committee’s 2011 achievements and 2012 goals that I mostly ignored—until one member mentioned something I had heard about a long time ago (but neglected to follow up on): The strip-mall Japanese restaurant at the base of Independence Plaza North apparently draws huge crowds of reveling young people on Friday and Saturday nights; it may be an all-you-can-eat/drink situation. Another member said the NYPD’s 1st precinct had said they’d look into it, but nothing seems to have come of it.

WHAT WASN’T DISCUSSED…
A new liquor-license application for the Barzinho space on W. Broadway, which must have been held over at the applicant’s request.

••• New York magazine reviews Kutsher’s, and more or less likes it. Judging to what extent the restaurant pays respect to tradition seems to be missing the point….

••• “Lower Manhattan will receive 100 more beds for the homeless thanks to a $2.7 million grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York to the New York City Rescue Mission. [...] Construction will begin in the next few months and continue into 2013. [...] By doubling the Mission’s facilities, the organization will be able to serve homeless single women for the first time. Out of the 100 additional beds, 12 to 15 will be reserved for homeless women.” —Broadsheet

••• “Last September, the Belgian design duo behind the label A.F. Vandevorst launched a traveling pop-up shop [...] and tonight it begins its first American residency at the Patron of the New [...]. Called ‘TSTSITW,’ or ‘The Smallest Traveling Store in the World,’ the shop showcases the designers’ clothes alongside medical accessories like a hospital bed and a dentist’s lamp.” Through Feb. 23. —Racked

••• “Karl Fischer’s 24 story tower dormitory for Pace University is beginning to rise at 180 Broadway and John Street. A reader’s photos show the first three floors going up at the construction site, all slated for retail in the new building, and it looks like the first two will be part of one store.” —Curbed

FEBRUARY 14
Speaking and reading at the Pen Parentis literary salon: Austin Ratner, Amelia Kaheney, and Stephen Stark.

FEBRUARY 16
The band Betty will workshop new music at 92YTribeca.

FEBRUARY 17–MARCH 30
At FB Gallery: “FB gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in New York of Brazilian artist Rodrigo Martins. […]In his paintings and drawings, Rodrigo represents slightly unusual situations that evoke feelings of strangeness and brutality. The images are fragmented, layered and at the same time appear to be merging. Musical influences, rhythmic patterns appear and give a sensation of time at once passing and frozen.”

FEBRUARY 23–MARCH 31
Cecilia Vissers at Masters & Pelavin: “Inspired by the landscape of ‘the far north’ of Scotland during a trip in 2011, Cecilia decided to focus on the cliffs and extreme edges of land, this is the most north-westerly point in mainland Britain. Isolated and dramatic. This work is an abstraction of the landscape, its purity, color and clear line. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and in the US.”

FEBRUARY 24
Another show (this one acoustic) by Wyclef Jean at City Winery.

THROUGH FEBRUARY 25
Karim Ghidinelli’s “Individually Collected” at Cheryl Hazan.

FEBRUARY 25
“BMCC Tribeca PAC is proud to bring back NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston for a special concert: Randy Weston African Rhythms Orchestra Celebrate James Reese Europe & the Harlem Hellfighters.”

MARCH 6–APRIL 27
At RH Gallery: “‘Underworlds Rising’ is Yi Zhou’s first solo exhibition in the United States. The exhibition is built around Zhou’s 2010 short film The Greatness, a 3-D animated film inspired by Dante’s pilgrimage in The Divine Comedy set to a soundtrack produced in collaboration with Ennio Morricone. The film begins with a Grecian vase, modeled after Pharrell Williams’ head, shattering into pieces.”

MARCH 7–31
The Krappy Kamera Show at Soho Photo: “This unique and eagerly awaited exhibition [...] will feature images that have been produced using equipment from the low end of the technological scale. The concept underlying this show is that in the hands of an artist, any piece of equipment can be used to create engaging photographs. The Krappy camera includes well-known names such as Diana and Holga as well as obscure junk-store finds and homemade pinhole jobs.

MARCH 12
City Winery hosts a preview/rehearsal of the Rolling Stones tribute to be held at Carnegie Hall (that show will definitely feature “Art Garfunkel, Marianne Faithfull, Rickie Lee Jones, Ronnie Spector, Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle, Taj Mahal, Marc Cohn, The Mountain Goats, Peaches, Jovanotti & TV on the Radio, Glen Hansard of The Swell Season, Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Jackie Greene and more to be announced”). This one goes out to my friend Shawnda—we used to scream along to this on road trips….

MARCH 22–TBD
At the Museum of Jewish Heritage: “Filming the Camps: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, and George Stevens: From Hollywood to Nuremberg.” Hollywood directors John Ford, George Stevens, and Samuel Fuller entertained audiences with American cinema classics like The Grapes of Wrath, Shane, and The Big Red One. But their most important contribution to history was their work in the U.S. Armed Forces and Secret Services, filming the realities of war and the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. [..] ‘Filming the Camps’ presents rare footage of the liberation of Dachau with detailed directors’ notes, narratives describing burials at Falkenau, and the documentary produced as evidence at the Nuremberg trials, among other historic material. Now, for the first time in the U.S., this material is being made available to a general audience.”

FEBRUARY 2–18
One Art Space presents “Big Picture” a solo exhibition by the American artist John Boone.

FEBRUARY 3
Eighties flicks Some Kind of Wonderful and Can’t Buy Me Love screen at 92YTribeca—and Wonderful star Mary Stuart Masterson will be there for a Q&A.

FEBRUARY 8
Adam Gopnik at 92YTribeca: “Gopnik will deliver highlights from his 2011 CBC Massey Lectures (available in book form as Winter), followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Canada’s CBC Massey Lectures celebrated 50 years in 2011 with five lectures from Gopnik on the subject of winter—the season, the space, the cycle. A stunning, beautiful meditation buoyed by Gopnik’s trademark gentle wit, the five Winter lectures offer an enchanting homage to an idea of a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination.”

FEBRUARY 9
“The Daily Show” writers are back doing more stand-up comedy at 92YTribeca.

FEBRUARY 9–MARCH 3
“Re-Make/Re-Model,” a show of work by Charles Lutz, is at Hionas Gallery: “Lutz’s wandering eye is keen to the satirical, the sexual and the absurd, found in objects both mundane and iconic, from Warhol’s appropriated Brillo boxes, re-appropriated by Lutz for a somber result in cold black stainless steel, to Franz Kline’s fluid action brushstrokes, re-made to reveal disparate body parts lustfully intertwined.”

FEBRUARY 11 AND 12
From New Amsterdam Market: “Join us for our second annual Valentine’s Gift Shop & Soda Fountain, held this year in a spectacular warehouse space provided by the South Street Seaport Museum. The shop will feature sweets, pastries, chocolates, and coffee among other specialties, and a Soda Fountain operated by P&H Soda and The Bent Spoon.” Left: a photo of last year’s shop, courtesy New Amsterdam Market.

FEBRUARY 15
Dune screens at 92YTribeca.

FEBRUARY 22
David Lynch’s Wild at Heart screens at 92YTribeca. This scene is a Steven Meisel photo shoot waiting to happen.

FEBRUARY 24–25
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me screens at 92YTribeca: “In 1992, David Lynch returned to the fictional town he helped create for the initially popular, then near-entirely shunned television series ‘Twin Peaks.’ This is a prequel focusing on the troubled character—Laura Palmer (a spectacular Sheryl Lee)—who is a corpse when the show begins. Freed of boob-tube constraints, and mostly absent the series’ leavening humor, Lynch traces the final week of Laura’s life in horrifying yet empathetic detail. The film was booed after its premiere at Cannes, where Lynch had taken top prize for Wild at Heart two years earlier, and received mostly negative reviews. But Fire Walk With Me‘s standing has gradually increased (the great French filmmaker Jacques Rivette has passionately expressed his admiration) and we hope these screenings—a rare chance to see the movie in 35mm—will further bolster its rep.”

APRIL 20
Graham Parker and the Figgs play City Winery.

••• I’ve reported the closing of Hidden Treasures, the junky store on Warren, before—erroneously!— but now there’s a “for lease” sign in the window.

••• Here’s the dinner menu (PDF) for North End Grill.

••• From Taste of Tribeca, which will be May 19 this year (so mark your calendars!): “Kids from PS234 and PS 150 enjoyed some foody fun at the Taste of Tribeca open house event today. Hosted by Taste of Tribeca restaurant Roc, the kids cooked with chefs from Roc, Mehtaphor and Mrs. Cupcake. Sarabeth’s provided muffins and croissants to keep everyone’s strength up for cooking.” Photo by Jack Berman.

JANUARY 26

JANUARY 26–FEBRUARY 25
Paintings by Karim Ghidinelli at Cheryl Hazan Gallery.

JANUARY 28–FEBRUARY 25
“From Parts Unknown” at Space B Gallery, featuring “works by Daniel Caspera, Marc Connor, and Andy Aaron. Seemingly from another time or place, these artists’ artworks are truly unique to themselves through narrative or craft.”

JANUARY 28–MARCH 17
Art in General‘s winter exhibits open: Mounira Al Solh, Katrin Sigurdardóttir, and Theresa Himmer.

JANUARY 31
The Tribeca Meet & Greet—organized by the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center—will be at Masters & Pelavin (6:30–9 p.m.). Come one, come all.

JANUARY 31–FEBRUARY 1
Joe Henry and Marc Ribot play City Winery.

FEBRUARY 4
The line-up for John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders at City Winery includes Edie Brickell and Tom Perrotta.

FEBRUARY 10
Harlem Comedy Renaissance at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.

FEBRUARY 21
Ed Roland and Kevin Griffith (of Collective Soul and Better Than Ezra) play City Winery.

APRIL 9
Kevin Costner and Modern West play City Winery.

••• Thierry Despont’s “Cabinet de Curiositiés” has been extended through February. Do go.

••• Look who signed the wall at the Palm Tribeca: Liam Neeson= (as tweeted by @PalmStkMan)

••• The next Tribeca Meet & Greet—hosted by the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center—will be Jan. 31 at Masters & Pelavin (6:30–9 p.m.).

THROUGH FEBRUARY 18
“Kansas is pleased to present ‘Cheat Chains and Telephone,’ a group exhibition featuring new works by Fabienne Lasserre, Elisa Lendvay, John Newman and B. Wurtz. Opening January 14, the exhibition runs through February 18. By obscuring material hierarchy and challenging the codification of an art object, the artists in ‘Cheat Chains and Telephone’ expose the pluralism of sculptural assemblage.”

JANUARY 18
“The Annual MothSHOP All-Star Review” is at City Winery.

JANUARY 19–FEBRUARY 2
“Frontrunner Gallery is proud to present the paintings of Bryn McConnell in her first New York City solo exhibition! These paintings struggle, with grace, to combine the sometime conflicting worlds of the individual’s exterior and interior. The Form vs. The Formless. The Conscious vs. The Unconscious. The Seen vs. The Unseen. The Identity vs. The Spirit. It’s a battle with the self, in varying degrees of pretty brutality.”

JANUARY 22
At Space on White: “Join Mario the Magician [left] for an uplifting, inventive, and highly interactive magical performance for the young and young-at-heart! Part retro, part rock and roll, Mario is an artist and inventor who creates his own props. Mario’s old world looks and physical comedy style are reminiscent of his heroes, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but he puts a thoroughly modern spin on everything he does.”

FEBRUARY 7–8
Two more Howie Day shows have been added at City Winery.

FEBRUARY 11
A production of “Clifford the Big Red Dog” is at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.

FEBRUARY 14
Richard Thompson plays an all-request show at City Winery.

APRIL 6–8
Anoushka Shankar plays City Winery.

STREET-FESTIVAL PERMIT
As part of the mayor’s awesome initiative to reduce the number of street fairs, the city is making various organizations with street fairs planned condense them into one event. So the Downtown Visiting Neighbors and the Downtown Independent Democrats, who were going to have separate events (on Broad and Murray, respectively), are now holding one event, together, on Lafayette between Canal and Leonard, on Sunday, April 22. Vote: 7–0.

Plein Sud's Frederic Lesort holding the plans for a sidewalk café; click to enlarge and you'll see where the tables will be

SIDEWALK-CAFÉ PERMIT FOR PLEIN SUD
Plein Sud wants to put ten tables (20 seats) on W. Broadway, south of the Smyth hotel’s entrance; the request was accompanied by a separate application for a liquor license to allow hooch in the café. There was discussion as to exactly how busy that part of W. Broadway is (not very), and how far the tables would be from the subway entrance (64 feet). Plein Sud wanted to serve liquor till midnight seven days a week, but the board voted unanimously for 11 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday (or maybe Thursday) and midnight Thursday through Saturday.

LIQUOR-LICENSE APPLICATION: MARYANN’S
As mentioned here, MaryAnn’s has a private party space in its basement, and it wants a liquor license, but there’s no certificate of occupancy yet, so the board thinks it needs to wait. A neighbor asked if the rumor was true that MaryAnn’s would be turning it into an “after hours club.” The folks from the restaurant said no.

Susghi of Gari's plans for the ground floor (click to enlarge)

LIQUOR-LICENSE APPLICATION: SUSHI OF GARI
The mysterious Japanese restaurant coming to the old Bouley Studio/Upstairs/Bouley Bakery* space will be Sushi of Gari, which has outposts on the Upper East and West Sides and on W. 46th St., as well as one in Tokyo. (Or maybe it won’t be called that, as the application says “dba TBD,” even though the community petition says it’ll be Sushi of Gari and the menu submitted is Sushi of Gari’s.) Anyway, Gari’s Masatoshi Sugio is partnering with Manabu Nishigaki who has Ise Restaurant on E. 49th St. (which used to be near the WTC) and, according to the application, “Oni Corp” at 56 Pine, which I can’t find online. The first floor will be the kitchen and restaurant seating; upstairs will be the small bar and restaurant seating. They anticipate opening in the summer, with construction starting in a few months. The restaurant wanted to stay open till 2 a.m. weekdays/3:30 a.m. weekends, but the board went unanimously for 1 a.m./2 a.m. (*There was a humorous moment at the start when everyone tried to get a handle on which building was becoming Sushi of Gari. The one that used to be a Bouley restaurant? The white building?)

SIDEWALK-CAFÉ PERMIT: JEAN
Dr.  Michel Cohen was on hand to request 10 outdoor tables (with 21 seats) for Jean, his upcoming lunch spot/wine bar at 65 W. Broadway. The board was nervous about approving café seating for a restaurant before it had opened. For a while, it looked as if the chair’s enthusiasm for Cohen would push it through, but others worried that a precedent was being set. I had to leave before the vote, but my guess is that it did not pass. P.S. Jean is not opening until at least March.

WHAT I MISSED
ROC was there for to renew its sidewalk-café permit, and there was going to be a presentation by members of CB1′s State Liquor Authority Task Force Committee. And the final item on the agenda—the restaurant at 225 W. Broadway dropped, by the way—was “WTC Command Center at 1st Precinct.” My guess is that either CB1 is upset about the construction or the traffic/parking; whether the NYPD would care about its opinion is another matter entirely.

JANUARY 7–29
The Piccolini Trio’s “Circus in a Trunk” is back at Canal Park Playhouse.

JANUARY 8
Saturday Night Fever screens for free at Tribeca Grand.

JANUARY 11
“Join 92YTribeca for a special conversation about The New Group’s production of Russian Transport, as playwright Erika Sheffer, actress Janeane Garofalo and moderator Julian Sheppard discuss the play’s backstory and its journey to the stage. Russian Transport is a suspenseful family drama set in the Russian Jewish community of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.”

JANUARY 14
At 92YTribeca: “The 2nd Annual Cabo Verde Expo of NYC brings the flavors and rhythms of the tiny island archipelago to New York City with an exposition of the music, film, fashion, and visual arts of Cabo Verde.  This year’s event will feature the music of: ZeRui DePina, a singer, composer and instrumentalist known for his unique voice, heartfelt compositions and dynamic stage presence; and Candida Rose, whose soulful renditions blend her Cape Verdean roots with her love of jazz, creating a style she’s coined KabuJazz. The event will also feature a film, art, and a fashion show spotlighting the creations of Cape Verdean-American artists.”

JANUARY 15
Taxi Driver screens for free at Tribeca Grand.

JANUARY 17–FEBRUARY 5
“What happens when you get six of the best figurative artists in the world together in one room? ‘After School Special,’ an exhibition featuring original work by the Full-time faculty of the New York Academy of Art. Harvey Citron, Catherine Howe, John Jacobsmeyer, Margaret McCann, Edward Schmidt, and Wade Schuman.”

JANUARY 19
Broadway Danny Rose screens at 92YTribeca.

JANUARY 21
“92YTribeca proudly presents a special evening featuring two of the most talented pianists in modern jazz—Jason Moran and Geri Allen. Recently appointed the Kennedy Center’s Artistic Adviser for Jazz, groundbreaking jazz pianist/composer and 2010 MacArthur Fellow Jason Moran takes the stage with his trio The Bandwagon, featuring bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits. [...] This concert also features a special solo performance by pianist, composer, and educator Geri Allen, a musician of extraordinary breadth and exceptional sensitivity.”

JANUARY 22
Sweet Smell of Success screens for free at Tribeca Grand.

JANUARY 25
At 92YTribeca: The Telephone Book (1971). “Super rare 35mm film screening of a forgotten classic from the New York Underground! Sexually frustrated gamine Alice (Sarah Kennedy) is freed from her apartment-bound malaise when she receives the world’s greatest obscene phone call from one ‘John Smith,’ sending her on a picaresque journey through the Manhattan white pages in search of its maker. As Alice encounters ego-crazed porn directors, perverted psychologists, and priapic shut-ins, her trip grows more and more deranged, interrupted by first-person interviews with phone freaks and climaxing in one of the nuttiest half-hours of 1970s cinema.”

JANUARY 28, FEBRUARY 11 AND 18
The BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center is proud to present the talented winners of this year’s Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in piano. This year’s three finalists—Kristopher Bowers in First Place, Joshua White in Second Place and Emmet Cohen in Third Place—will perform three solo concerts on January 28, February 11, and February 18 respectively.

JANUARY 28
Beaches sing-and-cry-along at 92YTribeca.

JANUARY 29
Wall Street screens for free at Tribeca Grand.

FEBRUARY 3
Husband-wife duo The Bengsons bring their Vaudevillian indie folk back to 92YTribeca.

FEBRUARY 8–MARCH 3
“Soho Photo Gallery is honored to present the winners of its second Small Works National Competition [...]. We initiated this competition to recognize those photographers who still enjoy the discipline of creating small masterpieces in an era when large photographs—very large—are in vogue. The competition’s rules stated that the height and width of entries could not exceed six inches in each direction.”

FEBRUARY 14
At Pen Parentis‘s free literary salon: Writers Austin Ratner, Stephen Stark, and Amelia Kahaney.

MARCH 27–28
Joan Osborne plays City Winery. You may like her for “One of Us,” but I always preferred “Right Hand Man.”

APRIL 25–26
The Bacon Brothers play City Winery.