Newsletter: Sept. 5

PREPARE THE SPACE CANNONS!
Photographer Krystl Hall was backstage at the installation of “Tribute in Light,” the annual work of art so magical that I get chills just thinking about it.

ON THE CB1 AGENDAS FOR SEPTEMBER
The agendas were full of news. Nam is evidently closing, making room for a new restaurant. There’s bar news (White & Church, the Duane Street one, another hotel rooftop bar). Something is going on at Megu, and a new restaurant is coming to Lispenard. Oh, and 403 Greenwich is back in play.

COMING UP
Notable events in greater Tribeca in the next month or so: Gus Van Sant’s new film, Fashion’s Night Out, Charles Grodin, gallery shows…

LOFT PEEPING: LELA ROSE & BRANDON JONES
Featured in the September issue of Gotham magazine, the fashion designer’s 6,000-square-foot apartment has a game room, a tequila nook, and a swingin’ glass table.

IN THE NEWS
••• 9/1: Skip the 9/11 anniversary? Plus: Your new neighbor, Jeremy Piven; CB1 tours the 9/11 memorial; the Jets visit the WTC site to promote their game on 9/11; saving 372 Broadway; 88 Leonard sold.
••• 9/4: 9/11 opportunists. Plus: Stuyvesant alumni vigil still unapproved; the back story on 5 Franklin Place; new restaurant “between Soho and Tribeca”?; Twin Towers montage; rooftop party; Tribeca Green.

VALENTINE NO. 16
Follow your nose.

RECENT REAL ESTATE SALES IN TRIBECA
Seven sales were reported in the past week, all under $2.5 million.

SEEN & HEARD
••• Congratulations to Sylvie Bilger for correctly IDing the location of last week’s Where in Tribeca…? Let’s play again Friday at 8 a.m.
••• 9/4: TriBeCafe’s new, Jaspanish menu. Plus: Kevin Bacon shoots tourists; new Suzuki school for music.

 

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