Newsletter: Oct. 27

A ROYAL VISIT
The Crown Prince Couple of Denmark came to Tribeca for a preview of Aamanns/Copenhagen, a restaurant opening in December on Laight Street. (According to the comments, the Crown Princess is a treat.)

IN THE NEWS
••• 10/24: Statue of Liberty. Plus: Battery Park City dog costume parade; dissecting a sale at 27 N. Moore; CB1 committee wants a security camera on the Rector Place Bridge; OBAO in FiDi; Occupy Wall Street (sort of).
••• 10/25: Fulton Street Transit Center. Plus: Sen. John Kerry; WFC mall construction timeline; chef change at Plein Sud; Ted Muehling; Taïm; Governors Island not opening on Fridays for the next two years.
••• 10/26: Assessing the Kutsher’s Tribeca preview (and an opening date). Plus: Why François Payard Bakery hasn’t opened yet; the sale of One Peck Slip is completed.

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: LAUGHING MAN MARKETPLACE
Laughing Man Marketplace—a.k.a. Hugh Jackman’s café—has opened at 184 Duane. Plus: More on Laughing Man’s masterplan to incubate companies and create jobs.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 10/24: Hugh Jackman (…and Rocco Cadolini!). Plus: Zuccotti Park Greenmarket being temporarily displaced; One World Trade Center is being lit pink this month; White & Church’s appeal for later hours.
••• Congratulations to J Allen for correctly IDing last week’s Where in Tribeca…? We’ll play again Friday at 8 a.m.

TCQ&A: TERRI PITTS AND IVLI SALMAN
The two Battery Park City residents—who recently founded Yoga City Kids, a mobile yoga service—show us their greater Tribeca. Says Salman: “We were out to dinner with our relatives at Churrascaria Tribeca when much to our delight, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gisele Bündchen and their entourage came in and sat for dinner at the table beside us.”

THE NEW FUN NEW MUSEUM
The Carsten Höller show opening tomorrow at the New Museum is totally worth going AboCa for, especially if you like things like big slides, isolation tanks, and upside-down goggles (the photo is what it looks like through the goggles, at least before you start to swoon).

 

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