Newsletter: May 15

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: SWEET GREEN
The Tribeca location of Sweet Green arrives with tremendous buzz. Do the salads justify it?

A NEW HOTEL IN NORTHWEST TRIBECA
I’ve now heard this from enough people that I have no choice but to repeat it: The Chad-Erik EZ Park lot at 454 Greenwich is going to be a hotel. Possibly with condos.

NOSY NEIGHBOR
“Is Peace & Love going to reopen? It’s been closed up for more than a year, but the signage is still up.” —S. The answer….

SUPER DUPER TENNIS: SUMMER REGISTRATION & DISCOUNT NOW AVAILABLE
Continue learning the FUNdamentals of tennis with Super Duper Tennis. Now offering Summer classes and mini camps at various locations downtown. Choose between our Power Month program, Flexible Program or Monthly Weekend Mini Camp sessions for your Tiny Aces (3-4yrs), Little Aces (5-6yrs) or Big Aces (7-10yrs). ​Classes are filling up quickly! First 20 people to contact us at hello@superdupertennis.com to sign up, will receive a discount off one of the programs. www.superdupertennis.com. Sponsored.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 5/12: Statue of Liberty in City Hall Park. Plus: Cobblestones already need work?; Saleya is closed weekends; John Kerry drops in for a visit; Hubert Street storefront revealed; Los Americanos boogies; Bogardus Plaza party.
••• 5/13: New ferry to Hell’s Kitchen. Plus: Public design workshop for Bogardus Plaza; Robert Janz show; La Garçonne looks closer; live music at Tribeca Tap House; Morgan’s Market on “Sesame Street”; Where in Tribeca…? answer.
••• 5/14: Savor Spa is scouting locations. Plus: Arcade Bakery is likely to open Monday; Bâtard signage; Taste of Tribeca is this weekend; Kaffe 1668 on Seamless; Butterfly lunchboxes; stand-up comedy; Chambers kiosk; Church Street School benefit.

IN THE NEWS
••• 5/12: J&R is auctioning off its inventory. Plus: The argument to dissolve the Battery Park City Authority; John Kerry.
••• 5/13: Rumored Brookfield Place tenants. Plus: New condo building on Canal; Suspenders pub at death’s door; Racines NY rave.
••• 5/14: Inside the 9/11 Museum (above right). Plus: Brookfield Place food court delayed again; Aspinal of London opening a shop; absinthe bar; Denny’s forecast; teen fight includes stabbing; 30 Park Place panels; Verizon Building getting windows.

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: HOTEL HUGO
Just north of Canal is a new 18-story hotel with a nautical feel, a sexy Italian restaurant, and—soon—a bar on the top floor.

 

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