DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN?
Gardiner Comfort, who was born in Tribeca in 1980, recalls what it was like to grow up here back then and mulls over what has been lost.

HELP A BROTHER OUT
Do yours your apartment or office look out onto Cortlandt Alley? Photographer Tony Larsen is working on a photo essay and he’d love to swing by and take a quick pic. Email me at tribecacitizen@gmail.com.

IN THE NEWS
••• 11/17: School plan rejected. Plus: Police vs. protesters in FiDi; what the base of One World Trade Center will look like; no-shows at the 9/11 Memorial; glass forest.
••• 11/18: Night of action. Plus: Battery Park City Authority town hall; funding for the East Side’s Pier 42; fire on White Street; Kutsher’s Tribeca; City Hall’s renovation.
••• 11/20: Bentley theft—by a guy wearing quite the get-up. Plus: More ambulances; OWS members staying at a hotel; the moral issues of having a big townhouse and a country house; Kristen Wiig.

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: ARTSEE
The stylish eyeglass brand Artsee has opened a suitably stylish shop in the Goldman Sachs building. “We display frames like they’re a museum collection,” said co-founder Julio Santiago.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 11/17: The Fulton Street Transit Center is taking shape. Plus: Asphalt Green’s opening is delayed again; pre-Thanksgiving Greenmarket schedule; Pier 25 closed for the season; new chef at Plein Sud.
••• Congratulations to Jim Smithers for correctly IDing last week’s Where in Tribeca…? We’ll play again Friday at 8 a.m.

COMING UP: GEORGE CLINTON, NINJA TURTLES, AND THE SUPREME LEADER
Or maybe you’re more interested in Dan Zanes, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Louise Lasser, or Fulton Fish Market art. If nothing else, watch the short video of Marlene Dietrich.

12 TWEETS OF TRIBECA
Welcome to TweeBeCa. Now pass the Purell.