FIRST IMPRESSIONS: SILVER LINING
A jazz bar with no cover, no minimum, excellent music, sophisticated cocktails, and room to breathe? Heaven…. I’m in heaven….

IN THE NEWS
••• 8/4: Hotel rendering. Plus: Nordstrom’s strange Soho store opening soon; convicted child molester; bike-safety group partners with Seamless; Frites ‘N’ Meats is back; the “saving” of Ground Zero; the 1st Precinct’s neighborhood hootenanny.
••• 8/5: Memorial preview. Plus: Anthony Weiner house-hunting; Danny Meyer on a roll; Sean Avery arrested; speakeasy for FiDi; 137 Duane sale; smørrebrød; Morgan Stanley real estate; West Thames Park now opening Monday; the nation’s first monument, restored; old ship at WTC site; Hampton Inn.
••• 8/7: Memorial funding squabble. Plus: Crunching the numbers at 28 Laight; a Tribecan and her beauty company.

RESTAURANT CLOSED
Farewell (or I suppose I should say tchau…).

INSIDE 83 FRANKLIN
The other night, I stopped by an open house at 83 Franklin, which is being offered by Core as rentals after a thorough rehabilitation.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 8/4: Something fishy. Plus: Flasher alert; High Line saviors to appear at 92YTribeca; Ed “Burnsie” Burns’s latest film gets a distributor; a better look at 1 N. Moore.
••• Am I really going to win Where in Tribeca…? two weeks in a row?

RECENT REAL ESTATE SALES IN TRIBECA
Six sales were reported in the past week, including apartments in the Zinc Building, Greenwich Court, and something called the Campbell.

PHOTO SAFARI: IT’S GETTING HOT OUT HERE
So you know what to do. Plus: Dinosaurs everywhere; Mt. Renwick; faking ecstasy; much more. (The photo below is by Tyndale Brickey.)