Newsletter: Sept. 21

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: GOURMET GARAGE
While the front of the store is definitely all about prepared and made-to-order foods, the back is a full-on grocery store the likes of which east Tribeca has been dying for.

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LOFT TOUR PREVIEW #2: LAIGHT STREET PENTHOUSE
The second sneak peek of this year’s Inside Tribeca Loft Tour (Oct. 18) is a huge duplex with a floor-through roof deck and art by Banksy, JR, and Dustin Yellin. Take a look around.

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APT. + ART = HOME
Mason Lane helps you display the art that you own… or acquire the art that you’ll love. We aim to give your home a distinguished, personal character. Visit www.MasonLaneArt.com to learn more. Sponsored.

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THE GHOSTBUSTERS REBOOT
The Ladder 8 firehouse is going to be in the new Ghostbusters after all. Plus: Is that Melissa McCarthy?

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 9/17: The Church Street stench has been addressed! Plus: Cops ignore “no parking in bike lane” signs; Frankly Wines’s new country kin; “The Affair” can’t get enough of us; 56 Leonard en plein air.
••• 9/18: More of the World Trade Center PATH station is about to open. Plus: “A John Waters Christmas” and the Wainwright Sisters; mouth painting exhibition; a local firm’s plan for PARK(ing) Day; a Sushi Ko pop-up inside of Church Street Tavern; Chevy commercial shoot.
••• 9/19: Climb the new hill at Governors Island. Plus: The fashion show at the PATH/Brookfield Place corridor; Uhuru’s jewelry line has launched; Ghostbusters and De Niro’s Bernie Madoff movie shot here again; Ray Bradbury’s house.
••• 9/20: Progress at 19 Park Place. Plus: Hal Bromm Gallery’s fortieth-anniversary show; dog found in northwest Tribeca; more business cards from the past; 1st Precinct Community Council meeting; fresh fennel seed.

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NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: CITY POLE
“There’s a huge stigma around the pole fitness industry, and we’re working to overcome it,” says Kylee Sallak, who just opened the City Pole studio on Beach Street. “The thing you have to know is that it’s a phenomenal full-body workout.” Read all about it. (Pictured above: One of the instructors, Berna.)

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IN THE NEWS
••• 9/18: Honoring the former head of Battery Park City’s parks. Plus: What the new head has to say; Tribeca Trust’s temporary pedestrian plaza; Schumer and Squadron call for WTC arts center funding; 1 World Trade Center is two-thirds leased; designer Carlos Motta (above); free FiDi wi-fi extended.

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NOSY NEIGHBOR
“According to a sign in the Franklin Street station, the MTA is spending $18.4 million to add flood-proof stairwell barriers at six stations. Can you find out more?” —R. The answer.

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WHERE IN TRIBECA…?
Congratulations once again to Jim Smithers for correctly identifying last week’s Where in Tribeca…? (Click the link to see what he knows.) We’ll play again Friday morning.

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WELCOME TO TWEEBECA
Can you believe what @soandso tweeted about Tribeca?

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