Tribeca Citizen | Newsletter: Oct. 31

Newsletter: Oct. 31

October 31, 2016 • Newsletter

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: FOWLER & WELLS
The first restaurant to open in the Beekman hotel is Tom Colicchio’s Fowler & Wells, serving Frenchified New American fare—including a very pretty baked Alaska—in a genteel room. Some first impressions.

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 10/27: Rumored steakhouse (above). Plus: The New York Dolls reopening party; more details on the “Experience Mars” event; why the Broadway bus bulb remains unfinished; show of 1970s art at Hal Bromm Gallery; looking down on Barclay Tower.
••• 10/28: Austrian bakery update. Plus: Local soupmaker’s first brick-and-mortar outpost; Stormtrooper on view in Tribeca boutique; jack-o’lantern contest; sugar-skull artist at Añejo’s Day of the Dead party; artsy Halloween decor on Franklin.
••• 10/29: Breakfast sandwiches. Plus: Free extra shots for a day at La Colombe; Urban Archaeology opening forecast; Franklin Street residential conversion; Daniel Squadron’s town hall; Washington Market Park butterfly garden.

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NOSY NEIGHBOR
“Do we know if any of the flood hardening of the Leonard Street Substation involves exterior modifications? There is a work permit taped to the door which talks about flood hardening and barriers around the entrances and louvers.” —P. The answer from Con Edison.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 10/27: Battery Park City Authority ditches its arcade plan. Plus: Local photographer Allan Tannenbaum’s new book about 1970s fashion; roommate arrested for alleged theft and assault; shopcats.
••• 10/28: An argument against the Pier 40 deal. Plus: When artists took over a crumbling Hudson River pier; Tribecans donating much more than usual to a Democratic presidential candidate.