JUST SCANDINAVIAN IS CLOSING
A big sale has already started, and another Swedish company is is taking its space. No, it’s not Ikea.
LANGUAGE IMMERSION WITH SONGS, ARTS & CRAFTS, AND GAMES
Yak Academy Learning Center at Tribeca FasTracKids is a foreign-language school offering Spanish and Mandarin preschool, weekly enrichment classes, and summer camps for children ages 1-10. With our fun play-based immersion and world-class native speaking instructors, your children will be put on the path to understanding and speaking a second (or third, or fourth…) language, and they’ll have a great time, too! Visit our open house this Sunday, April 29, 10–11:30 a.m. at 104 Reade, 212.346.7737, tribeca@yakacademy.com. Sponsored by Yak Academy Learning Center.
BARRY’S BOOTCAMP IS COMING
Fitness sensation (or so my Facebook friends say) Barry’s Bootcamp is opening in Tribeca. Want to know where?
TASTE OF TASTE OF TRIBECA 2012
The Taste of Tribeca press preview lunch was today, and I’m so stuffed that I doggie-bagged the last (of three) desserts and, on the way home, begged Torly Kid to relieve me of them. You can tell yourself not to eat more than half of anything, but then you forget.
NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: HOMBOM TOYS
The new toy store on Greenwich is packed with toys, from mass-market ones to ones that are more about education and creativity, from the latest craze to classics like Hot Wheels and Silly Putty.
SEEN & HEARD
••• 4/24: New Italian restaurant 2Spaghi is open. Plus: Bubby’s new cow; Poem in Your Pocket Day; Act Up march.
••• 4/25: New Mocca tenant. Plus: A report on the new Chinese-food place; a singing doorman; tween party with airbrushing and Hula Hoop contest.
IN THE NEWS
••• 4/25: Mechanical singing pig. Plus: Waitlisted kindergarteners; alleged groper denies accusations; architect wants to sell; Megu award.