THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Among the Tribeca Film Festival T-shirts being sold at this weekend’s Family Festival (right) was one that said “Here Comes the Neighborhood.” Which neighborhood? Times Square? It was a full-on corporate orgy—AT&T! Coca-Cola! Polaroid! Time Warner Cable! Fandango! Madame Tussauds!—with most local businesses shoved off to the side. The kids loved it, but it made me feel like a grinch.

CALENDAR: FOXY
This week in Tribeca: artist Shepard Fairey at B&N; Art Spiegelman at Thirty Days; “Dreaming of Dior,” a movie, at 92YTribeca; Pam Grier reads from her memoir “Foxy” at B&N; Louis Begley and Jane Kramer on the Dreyfus Affair; a conversation on infidelity (better hope it’s not about you); Tribeca Film Festival films at Tribeca Cinemas; Suzanne Vega plays City Winery; honoring Oliver Allen; Poets House’s chapbook festival; and mucho más. Plus: the full calendar through May 31.

FIRST IMPRESSION: PLEIN SUD
I finally made it to Plein Sud (left), the new restaurant in the Smyth hotel—and it was different from what I had expected. I spent much of my lunch trying to figure out which New York restaurant it reminded me of….

SEEN & HEARD
••• The CB1 Tribeca committee agenda includes liquor-license requests for new restaurants on Duane and on Greenwich.
••• Landmarc offers 15% off delivery in May.
••• Mysterious Bookshop’s owner wins an Edgar Award.
••• Saluggi’s starts making vegan pizza.
••• MaryAnn’s and Takahachi Bakery set opening dates.
••• Dr. John and Tim Finn coming to City Winery, separately.
••• 60 Hudson (the Western Union building) puts its ground-floor windows to use.

THE TCQ&A: “I ALMOST INVITED JON STEWART OVER ON PASSOVER”
Susan Bernfield (right), founder and artistic director of the New Georges theater company, shows us around her Tribeca—including the problem with Whole Foods, and the restaurant with the best bathrooms, and why Sarabeth’s opening here is throwing her for a loop.

IN THE NEWS
••• Serious Eats falls head over heels for Ward III.
••• Cercle Rouge cancels Bastille Day party.
••• NYU in old Deutsche Bank spot?
••• Spruce Street School drama.
••• Second Avenue express busto end at South Ferry.
••• No more Trump Sohos!
••• The Flea gets bad news.

READ MY CHEST
Tired of being harassed by Canal Street vendors trying to sell her a counterfeit handbag, Natalia Youssef (left) had T-shirts made that say “I don’t want to buy a handbag” in Chinese.

WHERE IN TRIBECA…?
Congratulations to Matt, who correctly identified the whereabouts of the happy face below. The answer and a pulled-back photo are one click away.