MANSION FEVER!
The city’s townhouse craze is hitting Tribeca hard. Let’s review the 10 properties currently being listed as single-family homes; nearly all had previously been commercial or multi-family residences.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 5/11: Serafina is opening a restaurant here. Plus: Man takes upskirt photo in subway station; Maman owners live here; school adopts parrot; 9/11 Memorial sues over poor construction; pedestrian bridge closed; Trinity Church sells Soho pad; Sunshine Cinema being shopped as development site.
••• 5/12: The elevator ride down at One World Observatory. Plus: Gay pride headliner announced; West Thames lawn to go fake; Atera has reopened; 1WTC to be second tallest; FiDi plaza is kicking out scooters and strollers; another parking garage to become condos; 60 White documentary.
••• 5/13: Preview of the new Morton Street middle school. Plus: Atera has plans for a lounge; “Real Housewives” character partially disowns her Tribeca restaurant; local burger gets called “one of the city’s best”; new one-block Varick bike path made of granite pavers.

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IS CELEBRITY CHEF TYLER FLORENCE OPENING A RESTAURANT HERE?
The word on the street is that the Dean’s space will become “a higher end restaurant called Wayfare.” Could it be Tyler Florence’s Wayfare Tavern? Let’s look at the evidence for and against it.

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VOTED “BEST NEW GYM” BY TRIBECA CITIZEN READERS
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SEEN & HEARD
••• 5/11: The NYPD finally found a home for the World Trade Center Command Substation. (So what are the odds the stables will come back?) Plus: Chambers reconstruction update; Pier 26 events; checking in on the 50 West tower (above); Ninja Turtles shooting again; free City Winery festival info; Smorgasburg at the South Street Seaport.
••• 5/12: Parm appears to be opening imminently. Plus: Peeking inside Maison Kayser; Houseman restaurant gets an awning; the sanitation garage’s spiffy sign; update on big Courtyard by Marriott on Greenwich; financial aid for preschool.
••• 5/13: Grand Banks opens Friday. Plus: An update on the Hideaway; the Lilac and S-Cruise by Smartboat are back; another Tribeca building being marketed as single-family residence; work has started on the Jacadi boutique; MFA thesis show.

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JUST SALAD IS OPENING IN THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING
Another chain restaurant on a street with four big high-end residential developments in the works.

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SPYING ON “THE NEIGHBORS”
Tribeca photographer Arne Svenson’s controversial images of his neighbors, taken with a telephoto lens through their windows, have been collected in a new book. The more of them you see, the creepier they get.

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