TRIBECA THEN & NOW: FRANKLIN STREET
As Jane Freeman’s pre-1990 photos of Tribeca show, the neighborhood was a markedly different place back then. First up: Franklin Street.

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CASEY NEISTAT’S NEW TRIBECA “FACTORY”
Popular vlogger Casey Neistat has opened a three-level “factory” (as in Andy Warhol’s): “Maybe the reason why creator community in NYC sucks so bad is because it’s not centralized. What if this can become the space for all creators?”

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 4/5: Chipotle update. Plus: Battery Park Pharmacy has closed; New York Dolls to start serving lunch and dinner; “Bull” shoot; Grace Jones’s One Man Show.
••• 4/6: Trader Joe’s is hiring. Plus: The Warren Street reconstruction project moves eastward; new tenant for the former Haus nightclub space; “FBI” shoot; celebrating Betty Carter and Fat Tuesday’s; 45 Park Place is a quarter of the way up.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 4/5: Are independent pharmacies doomed? Plus: Weinstein Company owes $50,000 for Tribeca rent; Battery Park City mom suing the Department of Education because her five-year-old son got dry-humped on the playground; teenage banana bread entrepreneur.
••• 4/6: The Shinola building is for sale. Plus: The New York State budget forces New York City to find $50 million for Hudson River Park; the apartments coming to the Leaning Tower of Tribeca (above); history of the John Street Methodist Church.
••• 4/7: The Beekman Hotel’s nightclub (above). Plus: Unappetizing photos at delis and bodegas; history of a Canal Street building.

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NOSY NEIGHBOR
“I was walking toward the Barclay side of 7 World Trade Center when I noticed the panels on the base of the building. I couldn’t figure out what their function is.” —E. The answer, which was obvious.

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WHERE IN TRIBECA…?
Congratulations to Sonia Stock for correctly identifying last week’s “Where in Tribeca…?” Discover the answer for yourself.

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