![love repair by tribeca citizen](https://tribecacitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/love-repair-by-tribeca-citizen.jpg)
Barry White has been reincarnated.
![BPC from pier25 by tribeca citizen](https://tribecacitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BPC-from-pier25-by-tribeca-citizen.jpg)
Pier 25 makes for a novel view of Battery Park City.
![woolworth and gehry by tribeca citizen](https://tribecacitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/woolworth-and-gehry-by-tribeca-citizen.jpg)
It also forces a comparison between Frank Gehry’s 8 Spruce Street (as we’re now supposed to call Beekman Tower) and the Woolworth Building. I hadn’t understood why people compared them before, because I never see them together like this. It makes me feel even more strongly that 8 Spruce should have tapered at the top, even just a bit. Your eye is drawn upward, only to have the building end abruptly.
![maryanns face by tribeca citizen](https://tribecacitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/maryanns-face-by-tribeca-citizen.jpg)
An artist is apparently trapped inside the old MaryAnn’s space.
![maryanns by tribeca citizen](https://tribecacitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/maryanns-by-tribeca-citizen1.jpg)
The new MaryAnn’s, meanwhile, has forgotten how to spell its name. Too many $6 margies?
![one world trade1 110310 by tribeca citizen](https://tribecacitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/one-world-trade1-110310-by-tribeca-citizen.jpg)
If you haven’t checked it out lately, One World Trade is rising quickly. This is the view from the south.
![one world trade 110310 by tribeca citizen](https://tribecacitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/one-world-trade-110310-by-tribeca-citizen.jpg)
Closer up, you can see the building’s distinctive shape more clearly.
![reade street crime scene by tribeca citizen](https://tribecacitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/reade-street-crime-scene-by-tribeca-citizen.jpg)
If only littering were taken this seriously everywhere.