Newsletter: Aug. 30

ALL GOOD THINGS: THE PREVIEWS
The European-style market All Good Things opens this Saturday at 102 Franklin. Here are the rest of the vendor previews….
••• Nunu Chocolates
••• Orwasher’s Bakery
••• Polux Fleuriste
••• Blue Bottle Coffee

CENTRICO HAS CLOSED
Its place will be taken by a non-Nieporent restaurant called Distilled NY.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 8/27: An Asphalt Green theory. (Denied.) Plus: More work at 87 Leonard; thriller shooting nearby tomorrow; commemoration plans for the 9/11 anniversary. NOTE: There’s more theorizing in the comments.
••• 8/28: Landmarc caramels. Plus: Updates on Drybar and Westville Hudson; Christina Lehr renovates; River Lofts (Tower) question; Farinella nostalgia; gallery leaving; “Gossip Girl” shooting here.
••• 8/29: Landmark travesty. Plus: Updates on Roberta Freyman and Balcony Café; Museum exhibit/gift opportunity; Parr Studios; New Amsterdam Market; 200 Hudson trees..

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN GRAFFITI | AUGUST 2012
The latest installment in an ongoing survey of local street art.

IN THE NEWS
••• 8/27: Valet parking at Pier 40? Plus: A waiter I admire; Tribeca Summit sponsored clobber; 9/11 Museum stalled; Sheldon Silver takes up the cause of Gateway Plaza pet owners.
••• 8/28: Le Restaurant. Plus: Travel + Leisure cover; Delmonico’s to expand; reimagining the Verizon building.
••• 8/29: Citigroup mulling a move. Plus: Fresh Direct to try out delivering by bike; Sheldon Silver regrets; Whole Foods Tribeca’s new restaurant; Gateway Plaza ditches anti-pet plan; designing dog runs.

INSIDE THE NEW FITERMAN HALL
BMCC’s new Fiterman Hall—replacing the one irreparably damaged on 9/11—opened yesterday, so I moseyed over for a peek. Anyone with a staircase fetish is in for a treat.

 

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