ANOTHER SHAKE SHACK
The popular burger chain is opening at the Fulton Center. It certainly makes sense from a leasing standpoint. How else are you going to get folks to make the journey from street level? Or from below street level?

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS: NORTHERN TIGER
It’s to Northern Tiger’s immense credit that the restaurant is not serving the same old Chinese-American food. (But it does have tasty dumplings.)

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SPRING CLEANING FOR YOUR BODY AND MIND
Break free from winter hibernation and begin to cleanse, move, and rediscover your body and breath as we finally transition into spring. All of the energy you stored this winter is just begging to be released. Karen Shelley provides private yoga and Thai massage sessions at your home. For new clients, she’s offering Tribeca Citizen readers 20% off their first session. KarenShelleyYoga.com. Sponsored.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 3/23: Lay of the land at Brookfield Place. Plus: Gap debuts this week; Smashburger opened last week; more Southbridge Towers privatization drama.
••• 3/24: School overcrowding task force. Plus: Little Park review; Bâtard is a James Beard Award finalist; many northern Battery Park City condos not owned by residents; Seaport loft owned by Yankees director of operations.
••• 3/25: Previews of Le District (above). Plus: Lazy Point bar in west Soho; Shake Shack confirms its Fulton Center plans; NBA player Paul Pierce accused of trashing rental; another 50-story tower for FiDi.

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LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO PUT DOWN ROOTS OUTSIDE OF NYC?
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS: BELLE REVE
“It’s a play on Cobb salad,” said the sweet-as-apple-pie server, when I asked about the name of Belle Reve’s Throb Salad. “This might be inappropriate”—she paused, and we leaned closer—”but chef says it’s not the kind of salad that makes you want to go to sleep. It’s the kind of salad that makes you want to fuck.” Read the whole report.

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 3/23: Plans for a Seaport megatower taller than 1 World Trade Center? Plus: Opposition to an American Flatbread event space; “Soft Spin” at Brookfield Place; affordable housing update; demolition photo.
••• 3/24: Taste of Tribeca tickets are on sale. Plus: Ex-Telepan Local chef’s new American-Filipino pop-up; Peter Tunney’s giant Polaroids; new burger place on Broome; “radical and rare” lighting; World Trade Center Transportation Hub Oculus curtain wall.
••• 3/25: Where have the trees gone? Plus: A meadow in Battery Park City (above); update on Houseman restaurant; emerging designers at the Seaport; report on jazz concert at David Gage String Instruments; 1st Precinct meeting.

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TWEE GROWS IN TRIBECA
Mmuseumm, the precious collection of semi-precious artifacts in an old freight elevator shaft on Cortlandt Alley, is opening an annex.

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