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MACARON CAFÉ HAS CLOSED
After four years on Greenwich Street, Macaron Café has closed. It wasn’t a terrible surprise, as the space was on the market since at least March.
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SEEN & HEARD
••• 8/30: 10 Corso Como opens [this] week (above). Plus: “Everything spice” at Zucker’s; antiques showroom in Bouley’s building on Harrison; “Bull” shoot; 5,000 subscribers can’t be wrong.
••• 8/31: Community boards to meet on the jail plan. Plus: Another truck collapsed the sidewalk; long-delayed subway elevator is finally up and running; Church Street storefront activity; “Instinct” shoot.
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VALENTINE NO. 67
There are a lot of reasons to love Hudson River Park, but my favorite part is the Tribeca section’s wooden boardwalk. Not only is there nothing else like it anywhere in the park, it was an elegant solution to a difficult design challenge.
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IN THE NEWS
••• 9/1: U.S. marshals sell felon’s Tribeca home (above). Plus: Diners who stare at their phones; new ferry route; developer accuses neighbor of extortion; Independence Plaza tax bill; Broadway condos; Jason Biggs’s lot-line windows; man confesses grisly murder at Tribeca police station.
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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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PHOTO SAFARI!
A.k.a. random pictures with snarky captions. Thanks to K. for the above photo!
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