A SNEAK PEEK INSIDE SPRING STUDIOS
The folks from Spring Studios New York invited me to see the under-construction facility at 50 Varick from the inside (and on the roof). Given the proposed stipulations on the number and size of events, I’m even less sure what the opposition could be at this point. Check out the luscious space and views.

TRIBECA REAL ESTATE ON FIRE!
The first-quarter numbers showed inventory fell more than 30% year over year and to a 12-year-low in the Manhattan residential market! The local economy is strong, interest rates are at an all-time low, foreign interest is still present, and New Yorkers are once again buying aggressively. If you’ve been waiting for the “right time” to sell, now is your opportunity! Contact Sophie Ravet for a free market valuation. A Vice President at Brown Harris Stevens and a TriBeCa resident for over a decade, Sophie is one of the leading and most trusted real estate brokers in the neighborhood. Sophie is multilingual and has an extensive local and international client base. 212-452-4470, sravet@bhsusa.com. Sponsored.

FIRST LOOK AT THE NEW FEDERAL PLAZA
It’s a little Vegas—or at least what I wish/imagine Caesar’s Palace would be like, all marble and mod forms. And it sure looks like money was spent. But the plaza will be closed in rainy weather: The marble floor is too slippery to risk a lawsuit.

BUST A RUT ON FIRST-TIME TUESDAY!
Have you made First-Time Tuesday plans yet? I’ll be going to a new restaurant (not mentioning it by name because I prefer to be incognito). Below are four businesses offering special deals—the first three are good any Tuesday in April. In each case, you have to mention Tribeca Citizen and/or First-Time Tuesday, and to be safe, I always suggest printing this and bringing it. And send me a photo of you and your people enjoying whatever you decide to do!
••• Jerry’s Café: All specialty cocktails during happy hour (5 p.m.-7 p.m.) are $5.
••• Churrascaria Tribeca: 20% off all food.
••• Zutto: $3 draft beers.
••• Torly Kid (Apr. 9 only): 25% off everything in the store.
••• If your business wants to offer something special, let me know.

WHERE IN TRIBECA…?
Congratulations to Alan for correctly identifying last week’s Where in Tribeca…? (Click the link to see the answer.) We’ll play again Friday morning.

IN THE NEWS
••• 4/4: Battery Park City security settlement. Plus: A rave for Shigure; Aqua Studio; old South Ferry subway stop reopens; Hale & Hearty back in business; a really lovely Cat Power video.
••• 4/5: Kindergarten waitlists. Plus: Mexican restaurant not happening; Rosanne Cash concert; big new FiDi bar; Nyack College moving way downtown; Bronx woman’s Tribeca connection; accused Yankee stalker.
••• 4/7: The Working Class shop and brand are for sale. Plus: Seaport Museum closing its Fulton galleries; 25 Murray comp; “Real Housewife” searching here; Tribecan with a really big closet.

NORTH FORK GETAWAY FOR RENT
It is a two-bedroom, 930 sq. ft. apartment on a gorgeous former artists’ compound in East Marion on the North Fork. Huge treetop deck. One block from the Long Island Sound. Jitney stops at the end of the road. For the cost of a summer rental you can have a year-round getaway. $1,500 a month. Call 917-921-5577 or email calemo19@gmail.com. Sponsored.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 4/4: Hudson Street construction update. Plus: 56 Leonard above street level; breaking glass in northwest Tribeca; Dylan Prime temporarily closed; sample sale at By Joy Gryson; Espasso sale (in Brooklyn); First-Time Tuesday report on Roberta Roller Rabbit (and a deal at Torly Kid); new items on CB1 agenda; 5 Beekman scaffolding is back.
••• 4/5: Free Cass Gilbert courthouse tour (above; photo courtesy the Masterpiece Next Door). Plus: Furniture store closes; Isabella Rossellini in the flesh; W. Broadway townhouse for sale; Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on its way; Marshall Crenshaw; time capsule; watercress; chocolate-covered matzoh.
••• 4/6: A bunch of East Tribeca news—including a view of 84 White; progress at Franklin Place; TOAST gallery (with water tower show); bookstore moving; Organic Modernism; Collect Pond Park; Walker office moving?; Broadway and Duane. Plus: Moving sale; Gina La Fornarina; Brookfield food.
••• 4/7: Los Americanos opens this week. Plus: Blue Bottle pastry cookbook; Rally Downtown events with whiskey and wine; the gilded spire atop the old New York Mercantile Building; First-Time Tuesdays.

REAL ESTATE SALES REPORT
Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were “recorded” by the city in the past seven days (ending 4/6/13)—the sales may have taken place earlier. As expected, there’s more on 250 West.

WELCOME TO TWEEBECA: SPECIAL CELEBRITY EDITION!
All good New Yorkers know they’re not supposed to talk to celebrities, but that doesn’t mean they can’t tweet about spotting them out and about. Or hoping to, anyway.