LEONARD STREET PARKING GARAGE IS FINALLY GOING TO BE CONVERTED
And here’s the rendering to prove it. Also, there will still be commercial parking, believe it or not!

NYC ELITE GYMNASTICS SCHOOL IS MOVING TO TRIBECA
At 18,000 square feet, it’ll be the company’s largest facility.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 1/29: Tribeca Deli is closed. Plus: Equinox Brookfield Place opening date; post-tsunami photographs; Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre; Sophie’s Cuban Cuisine has opened on Fulton.
••• 1/30: Battery Park City rental conversion moving forward? Plus: Truck traffic on Laight Street; Tribeca Watch Repair has been seized; those big tents on Canal Street; Kate Pierson of the B-52’s in concert.

IN THE NEWS
••• 1/29: More renderings of the flaming Franklin Street house. Plus: Tribeca bartenders share their view of the dating scene; Karen Lord explains Pilates machines; big Water Street residential conversion; the dearth of local representation in Battery Park City.
••• 1/30: Sweating with your neighbors. Plus: Vogue celebrates Lower Manhattan; Chambers Street power outage screws up subway service; checking in on Peck Slip School.

WHERE IN TRIBECA…?
Congratulations to James for correctly identifying last week’s Where in Tribeca…? (and it was a tough one). We’ll play again Friday morning.

URBAN ARCHAEOLOGY IS INDEED LEAVING TRIBECA
The building is being converted to residential. What you may not have known is that Urban Archaeology has all six floors of 143 Franklin—and that’s where it manufactures its new pieces.