October 3, 2009 Arts & Culture, Community News, Events, Newsletter, Real Estate, Restaurant/Bar News, Services
• This just in from Euphoria Spa: “October 5–18 is Spa Week!” That means $50 Blue Agave facials, massages, and IPL (intense-pulse light) treatments, which normally run $110–$200. Book at 212-925-5925.
• Another Chanterelle eulogy, this one from Pete Wells at the New York Times, recalling a dinner 10 years ago: “I learned that even in an elegant and expensive restaurant, one quick flash of personality can be more enjoyable, more memorable, than a whole night of respectful formality.”
• Downtown Express checks in on the progress being made on the southern half of the Tribeca section of Hudson River Park: “By this time next year, it may be possible to play miniature golf several hundred feet out in the Hudson River. The venue will be Pier 25, near No. Moore St., where Manhattan Youth once ran programs before the pier was demolished and rebuilt. The pier, which was closed in 2005 for construction, will likely reopen at the beginning of October 2010 with the mini-golf course, along with sand volleyball courts and the largest playground in Hudson River Park.”
• “A group of Battery Park City parents upset over the state’s plan to replace their beloved playground [at West Thames Park] with a new one may yet succeed in their efforts to preserve the existing park,” says the Tribeca Trib of a meeting that recently occurred between the state department of transportation and Battery Park City residents. “At the end of the two-and-a-half-hour meeting, Fenton and many of the most vocal protesters agreed on a hybrid of the four new designs [presented by the DOT] that preserves the playground, adds a children’s basketball court and increases the size of the existing lawn in the center of the park.”
• Speaking of Battery Park City: On Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., a reception will be held at Teardrop Park (between Warren and Murray) to celebrate a sound-art installation called Murmeration by Ann Hamilton, Michael Mercil, Ben Rubin, and Ned Rothenberg. Five speakers placed in drainage basins will play the sound collage, “derived from the calls of more than 350 wild birds species, as well as the sounds of various frogs and insects.”
• Blockshopper passes along the news that a consulting executive bought a two-bedroom, two-bath condo at 25 No. Moore for $2.492 million in late August.
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