Here’s what happened in Tribeca last month. If you find this informative, please share it!
••• Tribeca Citizen introduced a handy-dandy guide to Tribeca restaurants.
••• The Department of Transportation wants 9/11 memorial tour buses to park in BPC and as far north as Warren Street. Tom Duane feels our pain.
••• Washington Market Park’s lawn is expected to open in May (and the restrooms in mid-April). Kids were all over the lawn on that 70-degree day we had, so not sure what “open” means.
••• Artist Meghan Boody has a supremely kooky apartment on W. Broadway.
••• To assist with your spring-wardrobe shopping, fashion stylist and personal shopper Stacey Mayesh agreed to pass along her go-to list of New York City boutiques.
••• The former American Stock Exchange building (left) on Trinity will be turned into a “retail complex” and hotel; as part of the plan, neighboring 22 Thames is coming down. It’s not a bad-looking building….
••• A theater-theater (and not a movie theater) is opening at the Seaport.
••• A rundown of the Tribeca-related events in the Tribeca Film Festival, which opens with a free screening of a documentary about Elton John’s new record at the WFC plaza, followed by a concert by John himself. Regal won’t let the festival take over the cinemas, alas. P.S. Newlyweds, the latest work by local filmmaker Edward Burns (who goes by Burnsie), will close the festival.
••• Some Stuyvesant students made a racist video.
••• Two new restaurants coming to Greenwich below WTC: Koko (which has opened) and Blue Planet Grill.
••• Tweets! And more tweets!
••• I fell in love with a cookie.
••• The second installment of Anojja Shah’s “I → NY” series, about immigrants who live and/or work here, featured Rinta Juwana, an aesthetician at a Tribeca spa.
••• The Pier A lease was awarded to Peter Poulakakos of Financier Patisserie, Harry’s Steak, Adrienne’s Pizza Bar, et al. It’ll have an oyster bar and other stuff. (Do tourists eat oysters?) At least one Italian-American is upset that it won’t become an Italian-American museum. Maybe he should work on reclaiming Little Italy first.
••• Danny Meyer’s third BPC restaurant will be North End Grill, with ex-Tabla chef Floyd Cardoz at the stove. Expect seafood. And maybe a Scotch bar.
••• A woman fell off a balcony at 101 Warren and died.
••• Cool stuff at Battery Park: the pinwheel pavilion, a relief map of 1660 New Amsterdam, and a sexy bench (right). Also: a farm purportedly shaped like a turkey.
••• BPC’s library may get lion sculptures by Tom Otterness.
••• Manhattan Youth’s Bob Townley wants to build a theater and gym over the dog run on Warren.
••• Several businesses were honored by New York magazine.
••• The Unofficial Minutes of the CB1 Tribeca Committee: sidewalk seating and liquor licenses.
••• BPC’s disco manhole was busted by snowplows.
••• Dinner-club group Apt4 threw a party here.
••• The BPC ground rent agreement.
••• I took a bunch of photos of the nice new Claremont Prep school. Such views it has!
••• The Friends of Hudson River Park is considering trying to form a business-improvement district, which might mean a tax.
••• There’s a new CSA in town.
••• How you can help try to Save the Staircase.
••• A new elementary school is in the works.
••• New Kids on the Block: Christina Lehr (left), Fine Jewelry School, Xoos French Shirts. And Damon Dash sort of opened a vintage shop, while menswear brand By Robert James is also sort of opening a shop.
••• Coming to Tribeca: Bari exercise studio, most likely Naked Pizza, and perhaps an Anne Frank museum and an interfaith center (which always sounds like something that the kind of people who really need help would never set foot inside). Perhaps not staying: Glad Tidings Tabernacle.
••• Closing: Strawberry. Not happening: a restaurant on the top floors of 1 World Trade Center.
••• There’s hope for FiDi: Death & Co.–related cocktail bar (with lunch), Potbelly Sandwich Works, and Luke’s Lobster are all on their way. Speaking of lobster: Ed’s Lobster Bar cart opens at WFC Apr. 7.
••• Columbine moved next door. Grown & Sewn is moving to Franklin. Seasonal Whispers got a facelift.
••• Bill Clinton’s foundation is moving to Water Street.
••• My field trip to MOAF.
••• The redevelopment of the old Janovic building at Church and Warren appears unstalled.
••• R 20th Century put up a cool 10-year retrospective (right).
••• Progress Report: Northern Tribeca, which included news about a possible new wine store.
••• Progress Report: Southern Tribeca, with news that Sarabeth’s is delayed until at least late May.
••• Have you bought your Taste of Tribeca tickets yet?
••• The Hideaway reopened after that fire. (By the way, have you had the fries there? Delicious—but an order serves four people.)
••• 50 Franklin: Is it in Tribeca or not?
••• Several Tribeca restaurants have signed on to an initiative to get cyclists, especially ones delivering food, to ride safely.
••• How can we get the Municipal Building lit up again at night?
••• Da Mikele finally got its liquor license.
••• Semi-solved: A New York by Gehry mystery.
••• New-build 471 Washington (at Canal) is selling quite well, thank you. In fact, the four-story penthouse went for $20 million.
••• Kudos to Whole Foods for making it a lot easier to determine whether its meat was raised humanely.
••• Can you match these 10 Tribeca buildings’ names with their addresses?
••• The WFC Greenmarket starts Thursday, Apr. 7.
••• The Harrison is serving lunch again as of Monday; here’s the menu. Duane Park is introducing a weekly sexymagic show. Is that a dove in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
••• Wanted: a summer intern.