October Refresher

In case you missed it, here’s what happened in Tribeca last month. As always: If you find this useful and/or and/or informative, please share it.

By Asha Agnish (ashaagnish.com)

••• Asha Agnish photographed the shopdogs and shopcats of Tribeca.
••• Several Kardashians—of the VH1 Kardashians—moved into the Smyth for a few months. Meh.
••• New kids on the block: Mehtaphor, Birdbath Bakery, Pelea Mexicana, Project No. 8, Josephine.
••• I checked out Tribeca Health & Fitness.
••• A new health-food store is said to be on its way.
••• A Broadway building got a fugly new façade.
••• Nordstrom announced a southern Soho store, but it won’t be branded Nordstrom.
••• First impressions of Franklin Café Buon Gusto, Mehtaphor, and Birdbath Bakery.
••• TCQ&As: Loretta Thomas (“Harvey Keitel always smiles back”) and Tania Anthony (“Tribeca Needs a Good Chinese restaurant, and I don’t care if Chinatown is down the block”).
••• Bubby’s chef/owner Ron Silver chatted about the restaurant’s beginnings 20 years ago—and where’s he’s opening next. Love that pic!
••• Gone but not forgotten: Tribeca Girls, Hudson Square Café, Kiva Café. Well, I’ve forgotten about Hudson Square Café.
••• A chic nail salon releases some details.
••• Renderings of the Asphalt Green facility coming to north BPC.
••• Et tu, Justin Timberlake?
••• Twelve “instant-classic” tweets of Tribeca.
••• Family-fitness center rumored for Reade.
••• 60 Hudson got all Pyongyang on me.
••• An elegant apartment in Skylofts.
••• Coming someday: A French-ish restaurant from the Inoteca folks. A fancy salt shed. A restaurant with no lights and blind servers.
••• Inside 1 World Trade.
••• I wrote a Visitor’s Guide to Tribeca. Anyone want to help fund a real one, to be handed out at shops and restaurants? You can get sole advertising rights.
••• CaVaLa Park is now Albert Capsouto Park.
••• Jim Carrey sang standards.
••• I found out what the heck Poke on Harrison Street is.
••• Theater Bar (or is it Teatro?) has a secret passageway/VIP area.
••• Renderings of the proposed redesign for the World Financial Center Winter Garden.
••• Dev Tandon shot the fall colors of Tribeca.
••• Alyson Archer attended the CB1 Tribeca meeting, and came away with the scoop that Columbine was being replaced by a mostly vegetarian restaurant. We later learned it’d be called Nutopia. Also: Columbine isn’t moving far.
••• Questionable architecture (a) coming to Park Place and (b) proposed for Franklin Street.
••• Relatively new Tribeca resident—and Dr. Oz comrade—Dr. Paul Hokemeyer answered a few questions.
••• DeLury Square Park, on Fulton, opened.
••• The bathrooms at Washington Mark Park will have green roofs.
••• James Franco read. It’s not quite the same thing as “Garbo talks,” is it?
••• If Tribeca had its own money.
••• I had a question about removing shoes in other people’s apartments. Favorite comment, from David B.: “70% of my socks nowadays have some kind of colorful graphic or pattern on them.”
••• Cyclists in City Hall Park continue to tick people off.
••• A famous ballerina opened a ballet school.
••• Baker is not necessarily leaving. RHX keeps saying it is, but then doesn’t.
••• I looked into the flashing multi-colored lights at 289 Church. Got your own question? Tribecacitizen@gmail.com.
••• Julie Andrews is coming to town—and consequently “Le Jazz Hot” has been stuck in my head for weeks.
••• Based in Tribeca: shoe designer Matt Bernson.
••• Rebecca Sadek danced the night an hour away at Downtown Dance Factory.
••• The medical center due for Chambers announced a new name and an open house.
••• Pickle art! See you at the opening tonight.

 

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