In case you missed it, here’s what happened in Tribeca this month. As always: If you find this useful and/or and/or informative, please share it.
••• Amit Sharma’s jewelry-and-art gallery was burglarized—of an estimated $500K worth of jewelry—in a dramatic fashion.
••• The old Intérieurs space on Franklin is becoming a fashion-and-interiors boutique.
••• A disco manhole debuted in Battery Park City.
••• New kids on the block: Farber Center for Radiation Oncology, Featherstone Design (left).
••• Also opened, opening soon, or opening someday: Toloache Taqueria in FiDi, Keg no. 229 in the Seaport, Yorganic and Lolë on Greenwich Street.
••• Closed or closing: Avis in BPC.
••• The Regal movie theater is said to have signed a five-year lease.
••• We sneaked a peek at the menu for David Bouley’s long-gestating Japanese restaurant, Boji. Related: The “Calendar Nights” upstairs at Bouley Studio may resume after the new year.
••• More info on the restaurant coming to the three-story building at Hudson and Thomas.
••• Flashback to 1986! And the 1970s!
••• Five Franklin Place changed hands, but the cool design looks like it’s been scrapped. :(
••• The Broadway–Nassau subway stop has been renamed Fulton Street.
••• I baked Tribeca Treats’ recipe for graham crackers and they were fantastic.
••• Rangers player Henrik Lundqvist showed off his new W. Broadway restaurant, Tiny’s. (Comment of the month: “That makes 4 Tribeca food establishments for Mr. Abramcyk since opening Smith & Mills a couple of years ago. How about joining the rest of your neighbors on May 21st at Taste of Tribeca?”)
••• Hazelden wants to open a halfway house on W. Broadway. Matt Abramcyk appears not to be involved.
••• Hudson Street residents want N. Moore residents to share their construction pain. This promises to get ugly.
••• A restaurant for dogs and their owners [shrugs] will open on Stone Street in March.
••• A hearty thanks to those who advertised here this month: Frankly Wines, Tribeca Cat Sitter, the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s Pickman Museum Shop, Brooklyn Story, St. Luke’s School Christmas Fair, and Skot Foreman Fine Art. (The shoe image at left is from Skot’s Warhol show, definitely worth checking out.)
••• First impressions of two new casual neighborhood spots: Weather Up Tribeca and Compose. (By the way, in response to my walking out, Compose said on Twitter that it’s working on new seating.) Also: Tenoverten nail salon.
••• TCQ&As with a reality-TV star, and a rock singer/dramatist/party planner.
••• One World Trade Center was lit up like a Lite Brite Christmas tree.
••• 77 Reade unveiled itself.
••• Whole Foods Tribeca (a) closed its second-floor café and opened a ground-floor coffee bar; (b) is getting closer to introducing hand-held registers to alleviate lines; (c) undercut the sidewalk Christmas tree vendors.
••• Pretty pictures of light reflecting off buildings and sunsets.
••• One of the four Pier A proposals under consideration is for a pavilion celebrating Italy. Eataly it’s not.
••• A “motorcycle club” is coming to the Zinc Building. Also, the old gas station plot at Canal and West may get developed.
••• Tweets! And more tweets!
••• Equinox’s renovation has been postponed till at least July.
••• Congress got its shact together and passed the 9/11 health bill.
••• One World Trade is getting glassed.
••• The Peck Slip post office school hasn’t stalled after all.
••• The Jewish Community Project is expanding.
••• Based in Tribeca: Ilegal Mezcal.
••• Many apartments in Tribeca are available by the night.
••• A potential way to stop all those people from buying counterfeit items on Canal Street.
••• A thaw at 71 Laight?
••• A dinky not-ice rink opened at the W New York Downtown.
••• I shopped till I dropped.
••• There was a blizzard.