PROGRESS REPORT: NORTHEAST TRIBECA
What’s coming to the neighborhood, north of Franklin and east of W. Broadway.

IN THE NEWS
••• 12/28: BPC restaurant update—North End Grill opening date, Harry’s Italian questions, and Beans & Greens and Wei West. Plus: Theater Bar closed; woman attacked in Tribeca office; Fountain Pen Hospital; FiDi bank robbery; FiDi vs. the Seaport.
••• 12/29: Martin Gaborik (is there a New York Ranger who doesn’t live here?). Plus: New building on Canal; downtown alleys on film; Weather Up expansion; Skylofts sales report; Fulton construction delay; big FiDi Fairfield Inn rendering.

MORE FACES IN THE CROWD
A follow-up to last summer’s Faces in the Crowd post…. I promise that I didn’t fake any of these!

COMING UP
Macabre photography, Robert Burns, a troublesome duck, Sophocles, a lost bunny, Mason Jennings, a phone booth.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 12/27: Blue Smoke opening this week? Plus: Ed Burns’s latest film is out now; a familiar face at Downtown Dance Factory.
••• 12/28: Cool exhibit—go while you can. (That’s it pictured below.) Plus: A responsible way to get rid of your Christmas tree; New York Law School.