IVY’S BISTRO IS CLOSING
The good news? Something very interesting is taking its place.

NOSY NEIGHBOR
“Can you do a post about the restaurant sidewalk seating along Greenwich St.? Who enforces the regulations? Who monitors sidewalk erosion? Each year, the sidewalks lose more and more ‘walking area’ to the ever-widening ‘seating area.’” —A.

CELEBRATE SPRING WITH BRAND-NEW SHIRTS
The spring line has arrived this week at XOOS Shirts: Casual, chic, all-cotton shirts made with French flair, both for men and women. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, XOOS is offering a promotion exclusively for Tribeca Citizen readers: Through March 17, enter code PATRICKSDAY at checkout at French-Shirts.com and get 15% off your order; also, XOOS will offer 15% off shirts in the store on March 17. XOOS is at 7 Lispenard, at W. Broadway; 646-429-9835. Sponsored by XOOS Shirts.

IN THE NEWS
••• 3/12: Alleged hockey-mom madam’s Tribeca connection. Plus: Big sale at Dietz Lantern Building; One York in the “cold light of now”; the lawsuit against New York Law School; the BPC library’s new manager.
••• 3/13: Hillary and Meryl, hanging out. Plus: The prices at 50-52 Laight, a.k.a. Laight House; stationery store possibly opening in Tribeca; One Direction causes girlgasms.
••• 3/14: World Trade Center fortress. Plus: The restaurant plans for Pier 26; inside the proposed renovation of Pier 17; Tribeca-raised artist Elizabeth Behl; goodbye, Goldman Sachs; art-world humor; FiDi soup sadness.

ROADTESTING SHIBUI SPA
The folks at the Greenwich Hotel spa invited me over for the Healing Birch treatment. Despite the name, no flogging was involved.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 3/12: Homemade peeps! Plus: Renting bikes, ranting at bikes, and having a supposed say in where the bike-share program will be.
••• 3/13: Rest your head on Chambers Street. Plus: Is Occupy Wall Street coming anyway?; your chance to meet Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman; the answers to that “Fun with Autocorrect” game.
••• 3/14: Mini golf open. Plus: Anne Frank Center USA open house; half marathon this Sunday; volunteering opportunity.