In case you missed it, here’s what happened in Tribeca last month. If you find this useful and/or and/or informative, please share it.
••• The 9/11 workers’ health bill passed.
••• 2010 in review: notable stories and openings and closings.
••• Photographer Ellinor Stigle made winter look good.
••• Progress Report: Opening Soonish and Opening Laterish. Both were updated several times, including news broken here that J. Crew’s kids’ brand, Crewcuts, is coming to 50 Hudson, Color Me Mine is returning to the neighborhood, the Chanterelle space will be a high-end Korean restaurant, and a drugstore called Prime Essentials is launching on Broadway. The photo is of Jung Sik Yim, the chef behind the Korean restaurant. He’s Bieberesque!
••• Also broken here: Details on Goldman Sachs’s retail and restaurant plans.
••• Nutritionist Amy Shapiro explained how to order healthfully at Walker’s. Warning: Tempting burger photo.
••• Let’s take a moment to thank this month’s advertisers: Skot Foreman Fine Art, Tribeca Cat Sitter, Brooklyn Story by Suzanne Corso, Mind Over Matter Health & Fitness. That’s MOM’s not-so-Bieberesque Joshua Margolis at right.
••• Closed: Lotus Salon on Reade—and what’s replacing it. Also: Little Pie Co.
••• I got worked up about revolving doors. I still am.
••• Coming to Whole Foods’ upstairs: a wellness center.
••• What’s up with 55 Warren (which extends through to 55 Murray).
••• New weekly church services in an unlikely venue.
••• First impressions of Emergency Medical Care and Compose.
••• Battery Park appears to be getting rid of the State of Liberty security mess.
••• The Junior Officers Discovery Zone opened at the New York City Police Museum.
••• Cheese contains dairy!
••• Warburg broker Deborah Lupard is on “Selling New York,” a show about real estate. (More here.)
••• Yorganic yopened.
••• I posted a cry for help. (Thanks again to the folks who responded!)
••• New Kids on the Block: Elliman Rentals, Openspace.
••• Blizzard photos. More blizzard photos. And snowman photos. What else am I supposed to take photos of? All it does is snow!
••• If this chef thing doesn’t work out, David Bouley might have another option.
••• Big plans for 250 West—including a $30 million penthouse.
••• A kosher conveyor-belt sushi restaurant is on its way.
••• The Hudson Street reconstruction will be six months shorter than planned.
••• A block of Beach Street may get reversed.
••• New schools chancellor Cathie Black made a dumb joke and an insensitive allusion.
••• @girluninterrupt recommended five restaurants worth leaving the Tribubble for.
••• Gallerist Ethan Cohen has big plans for an old high school in Beacon, N.Y.
••• Duane Street residents are agitating for cobblestones—because there’s not enough street construction going on around here?
••• TCQ&A with fitness maven Alycea Ungaro.
••• Details on the building (to be a hotel) replacing the one that collapsed on Reade/Chambers.
••• The new East River Park is getting much closer to reality.
••• Tweet tweet!
••• Many of us learned that we had been incorrectly pronouncing the names of Tribeca businesses.
••• A Duane Reade was robbed of $750 worth of Monistat.
••• Liat Silberman talked tarot.
••• Rebecca Sadek tried out Body Rolling, a new form of fitness/massage.
••• One of the Harrison townhouses went on the market.
••• Locanda Verde and Sarabeth’s Tribeca signed on for Taste of Tribeca 2011. Plus: Do parents avoid restaurants that don’t participate?
••• Jon Stewart continued to walk the anti/establishment line.
••• Help a brother out. (Related: I looked up that phrase to make sure it wasn’t racially insensitive, and I was surprised to find a rather risqué definition on Urban Dictionary. That’s not what I mean! And no, I’m not linking to it.) A very big thanks to those who have donated.