October 4, 2009 Arts & Culture, Newsletter, Real Estate, Restaurant/Bar News
• The gorgeous 103-year-old, French Renaissance–style firehouse on Lafayette is getting a 74-seat screening room devoted to documentraries, according to the Tribeca Trib. Downtown Community Television, which owns the firehouse, has “slowly building moral and financial support” for a theater; they’re planning to break ground in February.
• The New York Times dropped into Barclay Tower and the Visionaire for a dispatch about the pros and cons of communal playrooms in large apartment buildings. The latter “has a playroom made of sustainable materials and renewable resources, including cork walls, bamboo moldings and a floor of recycled tire rubber. It has a $10,000 sound system, which on a recent afternoon was piping in Laurie Berkner, rock star to the 5-and-under set.” It also boasts a $50,000 saltwater aquarium.
• The Times used Warren 77 as proof that sports bars are becoming fancier: “Sean Avery, a left wing for the New York Rangers, put it more sharply this summer when explaining why he and his partners opened Warren 77, a Tribeca sports bar where Diane Arbus and Andy Warhol prints compete for eyeballs with the bar’s myriad TV screens: ‘Sports bars in America can be kind of horrifying.'”
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