WHY RESTAURANTS HATE SEAMLESS
Local restaurant owners are fed up with GrubHub Seamless, which gets paid handsomely to do its one job poorly.

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BAR PRIMI IS NOT HAPPENING HERE AFTER ALL
Which stinks! (The company applied to the wrong community board.) But let’s look at why someone really ought to open a restaurant on Broadway….

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 2/29: Is another small building doomed? Plus: Checking in on the Pakistan Tea House reboot; retro jazz at Evening Bar; progress at 56 Leonard; views of 4 World Trade Center slowly disappearing behind 3 World Trade Center.
••• 3/1: Inside the new Mariachi’s (above). Plus: Bar Primi correction; longtime FiDi sushi restaurant has closed; progress at 30 Park Place (and less so at its neighbor); open mic night for adults at Church Street School; missing a charming window display.
••• 3/2: Sidewalk squeeze on Franklin. Plus: A correction and a clarification from GrubHub Seamless; Laughing Man’s parklet is back; Indian food recommendation; “Mr. Robot” shoot; public meeting about new FiDi school.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 2/29: The hypocrisy of Andrew Cuomo. Plus: At home with Tribeca art collectors (above; photo by Scott Rudd); gaudy tower going up on Broad Street; people are buying furnished new apartments; Seaport gallery to also be a bar.
••• 3/1: FiDi could be getting a new movie theater (besides the one coming to the Seaport). Plus: The New York Times reviews Bouley; the name of the highly anticipated restaurant opening on Howard; a report on the Tribeca Alliance’s first meeting; St. Paul statue returning; artist Diana Delgado.
••• 3/2: 70 Vestry is expected to reap $700 million in sales. Plus: The World Trade Center Oculus opens at 3 p.m. tomorrow, and its skylight will open on nice days; the WSJ says the building “wows rather than elevates”; Yips patron loses sock filled with $3,800; Battery Park City Authority trusts its own decision-making, to a point.

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COMMUNITY BOARD 1 MARCH AGENDAS
What’ll be discussed this month: A new Indian restaurant on Murray?; “seasonal pop-up bar” at Brookfield Place; possible party boat docking at Pier 25; 18 event requests; “daredevil” trespassers; Finn Square’s next sculpture (above); Lower Manhattan bike lane proposal; Hubert Street mansion.

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