••• The Manuel Racim shop—they’re the shirtmaker coming to Hudson by Duane Park—is opening to the public on June 8.

••• Friends of Washington Market Park is offering two free concerts. in June: “Thursday, June 13, at 6 p.m.: Brady Rymer and the Little Band that Could. Thursday, June 27, at 6 p.m.: Princess Katie & Racer Steve.”

••• @NYCDowntownDiva notes that L’Amore Creperie is opening on Maiden Lane between Water and Pearl.

••• @ClaireMoncrief tweeted this photo of Peace & Love. Guess it’s officially not coming back.

••• In case you missed the update to the Bell Bates post: I hear from a reader that the space has been sold to a school.

••• Torly Kid‘s Tween Party is June 1 (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.): “This year the festivities include our annual hula hoop contest, a glitter tattoo station, and bake sale with proceeds benefiting the World Wildlife Fund.” Also: An airbrush station and mini makeovers featuring French braids.

••• Fulton Center has signage (that doesn’t look like other MTA branding…?). Thanks to @MMDeVoe

••• The South Street Seaport’s “See/Change” summer program starts this weekend. Here are the highlights from the press release.

SmorgasBar – the popular beer, wine and spirits garden curated by Brooklyn Flea – is making its debut at The Seaport on May 25th. Featuring a dozen food vendors and a bar serving local and artisanal beer, wine, spirits and mixers, for Memorial Day weekend SmorgasBar will showcase: Asia Dog, Blue Marble Ice Cream, Brooklyn Oyster Party, Brooklyn Soda Works, Fonda, Kelvin Slush Co., Landhaus, Milk Truck Grilled Cheese, Pizza Moto, Red Hook Lobster Pound and Rice & Miso Everyday. Adult beverages from Brooklyn Brewery and Sixpoint, spiked Kelvin Slush Co. slushies and cocktails mixed with Brooklyn Soda Works’ carbonated juices will also be available. Concessions will be open from 11am to 10pm Sunday through Thursday, and 11am to 11pm Friday and Saturday.

The Seaport’s Front Row Cinema will have a special preview of its weekly outdoor film series on Memorial Day weekend. Located at the intersection of Front and Fulton Streets, the Memorial Day weekend movies includes: Tom Hank’s 1988 classic Big on May 24th; action-packed blockbuster Iron Man on May 25th; and romantic comedy favorite Sleepless in Seattle on May 26th. Officially beginning its eight week run on July 7th, Front Row Cinema will feature an assortment of films with lawn and lounge chair seating. Shows are free and begin at 8pm (sunset). [Is it just me or are those among the least edgy films possible?]

On May 25th, the Brightest Young Things present The Golden Hour: A Kick Off to an Unexpected Summer, a multi-faceted art exhibit located at Cannon’s Art Walk. The performance art will include a photography show by Joshua Cogan, live action portraits from the film Tomorrow We Disappear (a dark, real-life fairytale about India’s last home to magicians, acrobats and puppeteers), art installations and a DJ set by Sea Level. The show starts at 6pm, is free and open to the public. Art installations featured in the show will remain at The Seaport through June 16th.

(Note: I’m out of town so I can’t wander over there. If anyone knows more about the closing, please feel free to weigh in.)

UPDATE: I hear from a reader that the Bell Bates folks sold the space to a school—which shouldn’t be a surprise, given the  rest of Reade Street.

••• “City Council member Margaret Chin, who represents Lower Manhattan, is pushing the City Department of Transportation (DOT) to create a “slow zone” that would discourage speeding throughout much of Battery Park City. [... It] could include not only speed bumps, but new pedestrian crosswalks, signs warning drivers that they are entering a slow zone, and additional signs reminding drivers of the lower speed limit, as well as other tools, such as stepped-up enforcement.” —Broadsheet

••• “New York Downtown Hospital has laid off its entire paramedic and emergency medical technician staff, leaving more than 40 healthcare workers’ jobs in limbo as the financially strapped hospital prepares for its takeover by New York-Presbyterian.” —DNAinfo

••• There’s a new underground supper club in Tribeca: “Daphne [Cheng] hopes to share her love of food with culinary professionals, beginner chefs, and food enthusiasts alike by hosting Saturday night dinners with secret menus and a wide selection of cooking classes from knife skills to molecular gastronomy. What makes Suite ThreeOhSix even more unique is that her supper club menus are typically vegan.” It’s at 59 Franklin. —Underground Eats

••• “Did you know a place called Wrap Star exists within Texas Rotisserie in the FiDi?” —Downtown Lunch

••• From the LMCCC: “On May 22nd and 23rd, the New York City Department of Transportation will begin installing a new pedestrian plaza on Washington Street, between Albany and Carlisle Streets. The block-long plaza will close the roadway, replacing it with a painted gravel sidewalk, granite blocks, and decorative planters, as well as movable tables and chairs. The plaza is being created with the help of the Downtown Alliance, which will also install an information kiosk at the site.”

••• Ryan Kaplan of Imperial Development Group sent over a correction about 372 Broadway, one of the buildings in the Broadway’s Residential Boom post: “Susan Wires from Stribling will be marketing the project—not Halstead. I believe StreetEasy says that because the former owner had planned to use Halstead, but Streeteasy’s information is outdated. We will also not be calling the project Tribeca 372. We are using the building’s other address: 6 Cortlandt Alley.” We’ll know Broadway has really made it when people don’t find ways around using it: The Leonard, 93 Worth, Franklin Place….

••• 59 Franklin Street will soon be home to a somewhat unlikely business for this part of the world (but it’s no less welcome!), SYNLawn, makers of artificial turf. Thanks to Troy for the heads up and the photo.

BROADWAY’S RESIDENTIAL BOOM
Eight conversions are currently underway, bringing nearly 500 new residential units to the six-block stretch between Canal and Worth—and that doesn’t even include the site that’s rumored to be making way for a 14-story condo.

FOOD SCRAP COMPOSTING AT TRIBECA GREENMARKET TURNS SPOILS INTO SOIL
Did you know that food comprises 17% of NYC’s waste stream? When sent to a landfill this material can create greenhouse gases, but when composted it becomes a valuable material that helps nurture NYC’s green spaces. Give peas a second chance! Drop off fruit and vegetable scraps for community composting at Tribeca Greenmarket, part of the GrowNYC & DSNY Food Scrap Compost Program. Every Saturday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Greenwich St. at Chambers. Visit GrowNYC.org/compost for more information. Sponsored.

A FIRST GLIMPSE OF PLANS FOR 460 WASHINGTON
They’re not renderings, but they do give a sense of the 10-story apartment building’s silhouette.

IN THE NEWS
••• 5/16: Sheldon Silver in hot water. Plus: The media discovers Arne Svenson’s photos of his neighbors; inside 93 Worth; Colin Quinn’s pad; Seaport wine and beer bars to pop up at Pier 17; police blotter; 55 Warren penthouse; Front Street trauma; BPC gustnado; Pace dorm; Ikea ferry frequency.
••• 5/17: World Trade Center security zone. Plus: More Arne Svenson coverage; lights coming back on at Hudson River Park esplanade and bike path; big new art gallery; B Flat review; Water Taxi accident; another Lenny’s; Greenwich buildings for sale.
••• 5/18: The conversion of 7 Harrison. Plus: The New York Times vs. Sheldon Silver; Steven Alan Q&A; Tribeca Paint owner’s apartment; more on Arne Svenson; John and Veronica.

WHERE IN TRIBECA…?
Congratulations to Red Zephir for correctly identifying last week’s Where in Tribeca…? (Click the link to see the answer.) We’ll play again on Friday morning.

REAL ESTATE SALES REPORT
Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were recorded by the city in the past seven days—including a single-family home on Greenwich for $17.5 million.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 5/16: Gym discrimination. Plus: Taste of Tribeca and the disappearing Citi Bike rack; Finn Square redesign meeting; J&R rumor; 460 Washington gearing back up; Battery Dance Company discount.
••• 5/17: Freeman Plaza. Plus: Mulberry & Vine now open on Saturdays; Scissor party; ARChive music sale; Issey Miyake and Artemide; “The Other Woman”; 37 Warren addition.

RH GALLERY HAS CLOSED
“The circumstances required that I act quickly. Though disruptive and unfortunate, terminating operations was the best available option.” —the final communication.

TRIBECA’S TASTIEST DAY
Tribeca-based photographer Rebecca Yale attended—and shot—yesterday’s Taste of Tribeca, and as you can see, she did a fantastic job of capturing the spirit of the event.

Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were recorded by the city in the past seven days (ending 05/18/13)—the sales may have taken place earlier.

$17,500,000

05/08/2013

321A GREENWICH STREET

Sale Record ( streeteasy insiders only )

$2,950,000

05/01/2013

79-81 WHITE STREET #1W

Sale Record ( streeteasy insiders only )

$1,375,000

04/30/2013
1 beds 1 baths 880 ft²

475 Greenwich Street #5C

Condo
Sale Record ( streeteasy insiders only )

$1,550,000

04/30/2013
1 beds 1 baths 1,270 ft²

55 HUDSON STREET #4A

Co-op
Sale Record ( streeteasy insiders only )

$3,450,000

04/24/2013
3 beds 2 baths 2,400 ft²

74 LAIGHT STREET #6

Apartment
Sale Record ( streeteasy insiders only )

$2,211,000

04/19/2013

275 GREENWICH STREET #8GS+

Sale Record ( streeteasy insiders only )

••• “You’ve probably rubbed shoulders with people like John and Veronica, the wealthy couple at the heart of [Thea] Goodman’s first novel. Perhaps you’ve spotted them at Dean & DeLuca, contemplating brands of organic goat’s milk, or at Tribeca Paint, scrutinizing palettes of yellow before choosing ‘pollen’ for the baby’s nursery.” I get sneezy just thinking about it! “The toll of parenthood proves a terrible realization for John and Veronica, who find both their home and their circadian rhythms upturned by their 6-month-old daughter, Clara. One January weekend, John, a researcher for a successful hedge fund, spontaneously jets to Barbados with the baby, telling Veronica, only after their arrival, that he and Clara have gone to visit his mother in the suburbs. Is this a kidnapping? A betrayal? Or merely the act of a man wrecked by months of exhaustion that ‘seemed to calcify within him, then crack’?” —The New York Times

••• Steven Alan talks to the Wall Street Journal about stuff he likes.

••• USA Today on Arne Svenson’s photos of his neighbors. (I sure missed a Loft Peeping reference when I wrote about it.) Apparently, the “Today” show covered it, too. The increased publicity just erodes at the privacy even more, no?

••• Steven Harris Architects is handling the conversion of 7 Harrison: “The landmarked building, near [on, actually] Staple Street, will feature 10 three- and four-bedroom half-floor residences, as well as a townhouse unit with a private garden and a duplex penthouse with private outdoor space.” When Adam and I were looking for an architect to renovate our apartment, I left a long message at Harris’s office (it’s the nice-looking one on Chambers). Never heard back. Phone manners matter, baby. Related: Bloggers never forget. —The Real Deal

••• “The [New York State] Assembly should [...] remove Sheldon Silver from the leadership.” —New York Times

Well, that’s too bad. RH Gallery at 137 Duane just sent out an email saying that it has closed. (Actually, in more proof that I need to walk down Duane more often, it closed two weeks ago.) Here’s the somewhat ominous note—and not just because the subject line was “RH Gallery Final Communication”:

Dear Friends and Family of RH Gallery:

Two weeks ago, RH Gallery closed its doors to the public. The circumstances required that I act quickly. Though disruptive and unfortunate, terminating operations was the best available option.

I write with gratitude for your contributions over the last two-and-one-half years. In many ways, the gallery was a tremendous success. This would not have been possible without your patronage and support.

Sincerely,
Adam Taki

They’re not renderings, but they do give a sense of the factory’s apartment building’s silhouette.

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