SHOP-LOCAL GIFT GUIDE (PART 2)
There’s no law saying you can’t pick up a little something for yourself, too, while you’re out and about. In this round: Babesta (above), A Uno, Stillfried Wien, Grown & Sewn, and the Mysterious Bookshop.
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TAMID’S TEEN HUNGER ACTION PROJECT
Tamid invites all downtown teens (ages 13-17) to participate in D-HAP, a service-learning project that meets at Tamid in Tribeca. Get credit for your school’s community service requirement by serving pre-made dinners to the homeless in Lower Manhattan. Meets one Saturday night per month from 6:30-10 PM. Learn more about this service project and other programs at Tamid: The Downtown Synagogue and like the D-HAP Facebook page. Please contact Christina if you would like to get involved. tamidnyc.org. Sponsored.
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SHOP-LOCAL GIFT GUIDE (PART 3)
Because there’s a credit card in your pocket, and baby it’s ready to roar! In this round: Schoolhouse Electric (above), Jacadi, Philip Williams Posters, Lot-Less, and My Little Sunshine.
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COMMUNITY BOARD 1 AGENDAS FOR DECEMBER
What’ll be discussed: A newsstand proposed for outside P.S. 234; Four Seasons liquor licenses (that’s a guest room, above); booze at Tartinery and Le Pain Quotidien; Peck Slip design concepts; M5 bus route change; Hank’s Juicy Beef; Capsouto Park public art; Tunnel to Towers run; Pier A public seating; fecal contamination in the Hudson River. Read the full (annotated) agendas.
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H&M CONFIRMS WORLD TRADE CENTER STORE
It’ll be 25,000 square feet in 4 World Trade Center.
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NOSY NEIGHBOR
“Why is the Duane Park flag almost always at half-staff? And why is the POW flag with it? (It kinda looks like the ISIS flag—are we missing something?) And who makes these decisions?” —E. The answer.
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SEEN & HEARD
••• 11/30: A gallery is moving in. (But which one?) Plus: The Sterling Mason’s deep canopy; more on that Worth Street fire; an update on new Brookfield Place stores; a movie about the pressures boys face.
••• 12/1: Another residential conversion. Plus: “Inverted Warehouse-Townhouse” on the market (above); Community Board 1 agendas now include Cipriani traffic and a rooftop addition on Jay; Friends of Bogardus Plaza’s “Holiday Sing” event.
••• 12/2: Laura Bush dropped by Baked. Plus: A second Matt Bernson store; inside the corner window at W. Broadway and Worth Fountain Pen Hospital holiday expo; the Battery Park City Authority’s public meeting schedule.
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IN THE NEWS
••• 11/30: The newsstand reinvented, now at Brookfield Place (above). Plus: More on the mall’s holiday light installation; Westfield World Trade Center tenant Jones the Grocer has rebranded; M5 bus route change.
••• 12/1: Sheldon Silver convicted on all counts. Plus: What’s next for his seat in the state assembly; FDNY rescued an injured red-tailed hawk near the World Trade Center.
••• 12/2: Violent phone theft. Plus: American Cut opening in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; two potential candidates for Sheldon Silver’s seat; efforts on behalf of Federal Hall.
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SUN CAFÉ APPEARS TO BE CLOSING
Yet another inexpensive restaurant is hitting the road.
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