WE’RE CORDIALLY INVITED…
Apt4, the buzzy private-dinner-party club, is coming to the neighborhood, I think for the first time (or at least the first time in recent memory—the events are usually in Brooklyn). The dinner is on Mar. 10. I’m in. See you there?
IN THE NEWS
••• 2/21 roundup: Hideaway fire. Plus: New York Academy of Art vs. Facebook; bad advice for De Niro; NYC Nomad drops by; an Egg room.
••• 2/22 roundup: Finn Square sculpture. Plus: Another African Burial Ground museum; Millennium High School; Hudson Square. UPDATE: Now with Curbed’s tour of New York by Gehry.
••• 2/23 roundup: Dr. Joy Browne. Plus: BPC security-incident update; body pulled from North Cove Marina; 9/11 interactive timeline; Walkerspace review; church vs. Port Authority; New York by Gehry rent-stabilized.
•• 2/24 roundup: Amish Market in Chapter 11. Plus: WTC congestion; new BPC pizzeria; Borders as school?; half-marathon; Google do-gooder; Carmelo Anthony looking in Tribeca?; the homeless on Twitter; Compose; New York by Gehry. Also: Reopen Park Row!
NOSY NEIGHBOR: NEW PAINTING AT 153 HUDSON
“There’s a new painting in that mysterious window on Hudson between Laight and Hubert—the one with the quote in it. What’s the painting? Whose is it?” —Nick S.
SEEN & HEARD
••• 2/21 roundup: Spa deals. Plus: Pizza deal; puppet art; and Edward Burns’s next film.
••• 2/23 roundup: Il Matto’s neon. Plus: Best happy hour deal around?; a real pig-out of a dinner; dubious tweets; Shirley, Larry, Sheryl, and Chaz all coming to Barnes & Noble.
••• 2/24 roundup: About that deliveryman…. Plus: Free coffee and $5 off SeamlessWeb; Christina Lehr’s soon-to-open boutique; Christy Turlington’s documentary; Fiterman Hall getting topped off.
JURY DUTY RESTAURANTS IN TRIBECA
Doing your civic duty doesn’t have to mean eating badly. They’ll give you a long lunch break—make the most of it and wander into eastern Tribeca.