May 19, 2014 Community News, History, People, Restaurant/Bar News, Shopping
••• The CB1 Landmarks Committee is worried that the Cafeteria restaurant planned for W. Broadway and Reade will be noisy. The rendering looks nice—if a bit Meatpackingy—but I think we can agree it’s far better than what’s there now. —Tribeca Trib UPDATE 5/21: Reade Street residents are not happy; more in a Seen & Heard post tomorrow.
••• Jessica Scarpelli sent over photos of last weekend’s Red Bull skydiving stunt. Thanks again, Jessica!
••• Washington Market Tavern—from Mudville 9 owner Eric Schwimmer—will open in June, says the New York Post. The food “will be overseen by Aksel Theilkuhl, the former executive chef at STK’s two NY locations.” And the restaurant—two stories, 4,500 square feet, seating 140—includes “two mosaic murals based on Milanese artist Piero Fornasetti’s originals, re-created with silver leaf and torch-burnt reclaimed white oak.”
••• Tribeca’s own Wickham Boyle is featured in a New York Times article about folks from different generations working together—in this case, Just Shea, “a for-profit social business based in New York that markets shea products. The profits go to a related nonprofit, which provides, among other things, equipment to protect women who harvest shea nuts from snake bites, and microloans secured by crops stored in a cooperative silo.
••• In 1982, artist Agnes Denes planted a field of wheat in Battery Park City. —Gothamist
••• “Peregrine falcons have returned to nest at 55 Water St., laying four eggs this year.” —DNAinfo
••• “The Church Street School for Music and Art is still under water, financially, nearly two months after massive flooding damaged its second-floor administrative offices in March, the result of a fire in an apartment above it.” —Tribeca Trib
••• Manhattan User’s Guide profiles Patron of the New, comparing it (favorably) to Shot Down in Ecuador, Jr.—”the boutique that Mary and Rhoda visit in a Mary Tyler Moore show episode when Mary dates a younger man and decides she needs to go for a hipper look.”
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This is the making of video showing the Red Bull skydiving stunt: http://edge.si.com/edge/video/2014/05/19/worlds-top-wingsuit-athletes-fly-over-manhattan-skyline?eref=sihp