I'm the one on the left

If all you’re looking for is an email address: tribecacitizen@gmail.com.

I got the idea for Tribeca Citizen after I quit my job in the summer of 2008. (I had been the editor in chief of Budget Travel magazine, and before that I was an editor at Fortune, Travel + Leisure, and Town & Country magazines.) I’ve lived in the neighborhood since 2003, but I had always loved it a little blindly. Perhaps because I had time to take my pug, Howard, on much longer walks, I found I had all sorts of questions: Will 66 Leonard ever go up? What is David Bouley doing now? When I couldn’t find a website with the answers, I began to envision one.

Trust is everything
Tribeca Citizen is entirely independent. While there is advertising, the site’s editorial integrity will never be compromised. I want this site to be smart, fun, useful, interesting, and above all, trustworthy.

Please comment! But…
Comments have to be approved before they’ll be posted, and I reserve the right not to publish them for whatever reason. A general rule of thumb: If you’re not comfortable putting your name on what you’re saying—and I hope you will!—then maybe it’s not appropriate. Likewise, if you have a vested interest in whatever you’re commenting about, please say so. If comments are turned off, the post was receiving an aggravating amount of spam.

Reach your target audience
Let’s talk about ways to get your message across. For more on that topic, go here.

What is Tribeca, anyway?
My definition of Tribeca is broad, because I’m as interested in what’s going a few blocks north of Canal, or east of Broadway, or in Battery Park City, as I am about what’s happening at West Broadway and Franklin. In essence, I’m defining Tribeca as anywhere I could persuade my partner, Adam, to walk for dinner. And I’m not spelling it TriBeCa because that’s too hard to type.

Please email me any thoughts you have, positive or otherwise, or even if you just want to say hello. And please let other Tribeca residents know about the site!

Erik Torkells
tribecacitizen@gmail.com

P.S. No, this does not pay my rent. I gladly do anything for money take on other assignments—writing, editing, etc. I’m also a contributor to Orbitz’s blog, which involves making appearances on national and New York City television (so if you see me pop up, don’t fall off the treadmill). UPDATE: I’ve self-published a novel, Nutmegger. You can read more about it—and/or buy it!—on this page.