IN THE NEWS
••• The opening-night premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival will be…. Shrek Forever After. (New York Times)
••• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given the Soho Rep theater a $200,000 grant. (New York Times)
••• Racked noticed the Gummi Bear light fixture at Babesta Cribz.
••• In an article about people who waited to buy real estate when prices were lower, New York magazine included one Brenda Lando, an account exec: “Lando knew exactly what she wanted—a doorman one-bedroom below 23rd Street, but not in the financial district—and was willing to spend up to $750,000. As she shopped, she gradually added a kitchen island, gym, and roof deck to her checklist. Those criteria took her to a new development in Tribeca, where the builders offered her a second-floor unit at $695,000. She passed—but counteroffered the same amount for a higher apartment with a balcony. (She’d been tracking closing prices online.) Some back-and-forth later, they had a deal—transfer taxes and some of the attorney fees included.”
••• “Developer mutiny” at Tribeca Summit. (Curbed)

COOL
Pen Parentis announced a new fellowship, which includes a $1,000 prize and a year of promotion. Details here.

COMING UP
••• The agenda for the next meeting of CB1’s Tribeca Committee, on Mar. 10, has been released:
1. 130 Duane Street, application for liquor license for Duane Street Hotel, Resolution
2. 329 Greenwich Street, application for renewal of unenclosed sidewalk cafe for Industria Argentina – Resolution
3. Street permit application by Cercle Rouge on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, West Broadway between Beach Street and White Street – Resolution
4. Transportation and Parking Regulations Sub-Committee – Discussion
The following notices have been received for renewal, upgrade or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses:
• 48 Chambers Street, application for renewal of liquor license for Chambers Street Wines
• 139 Duane Street, application for renewal of liquor license for Blaue Gans
• 183 Duane Street, application for renewal of beer license for Tokyo Bay Enterprises, Inc.
• 59 Warren Street, application for renewal of liquor license for Raccoon Lodge
• 2 Avenue of Americas, application for renewal of liquor license for Tribeca Grand Hotel
••• Also of note: The agenda for the Youth and Education Committee’s meeting on Mar. 16 includes “Presentation on the construction of a green recreation center and dog run in the existing dog run on Warren Street by Bob Townley, Community Board 1 Member and Executive Director of Manhattan Youth.”
••• Added to 92YTribeca‘s March schedule (they never rest, do they?): Channel 101 NY Monthly Screening (Mar. 10); Off the Hook: Why Local Seafood is Sustainable (Mar. 13); Jolie Holland, right, and TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone (Mar. 19); Shabbat Dinner with “Science Babe” Debbie Berebichez (Mar. 26); Julia Greenberg Sings Dory Previn and David Driver Sings Scott Walker, presumably non-simultaneously (Mar. 26); Grant Hart and the Octagon (Mar. 27); Lampchop Live at XX Merge, a film (Mar. 31); songwriters Ewalt and Walker with lot of Broadway friends (Mar. 31).