MORE ON AMAZON’S BROOKFIELD PLACE STORE
Instead of a bookstore, it’ll be a convenience store without cashiers, and “a combination of sensors, cameras and computer vision” will be used to charge customers.

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Tribeca Performing Arts Center presents Sonia De Los Santos with Cumbia River Band on Friday, November 2, at 8 p.m. Sonia started her career touring the world singing in English and Spanish, playing guitar and lighting up the stage with Grammy Award–winning group Dan Zanes and Friends. On this special evening, Sonia will be joined by the Cumbia River Band, a Brooklyn-based group that draws from a festive repertoire of Colombian Cumbia and Riverside standards. Tribeca PAC is located on 199 Chambers St. (BMCC campus), New York, NY. Call (212) 220-1460. Order online by clicking photo. Sponsored.

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ACCLAIMED YAKITORI RESTAURANT TO OPEN HERE
Last year, the New York Times awarded a three-star rave to Toroshin, which is opening a Tribeca outpost: “Just a few skewers are enough to expand your sense of what’s possible in the department of chicken.”

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 10/22: DanceBody is opening a Tribeca studio. Plus: The 1st Precinct’s new Neighborhood Coordination Officers; World Trade Center Greenmarket to move indoors; Louie Anderson stand-up; “Bucket o’Blood Cabaret” at the Flea.
••• 10/23: Independence Plaza signage. Plus: A better look at the new 440 Washington; 101 Warren’s sidewalk shed partially removed; car accident in reverse; Cast Iron House’s granite sidewalk; 56 Leonard artwork tipped over; Blue Park Kitchen open in FiDi.
••• 10/24: Food court at the World Trade Center mall. Plus: Korin’s master knife sharpener has passed away; Rooq frame store appears to have opened; inaccurate “sidewalk closed” sign removed; pot dispensary.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 10/22: Harvey Weinstein’s casting couch. Plus: Higher-end convenience store opened on Lafayette; Greenwich Street building to have “a kind of scarification” and squircle windows.
••• 10/23: Tribeca mansion sold (rendering above). Plus: Community Board 1 wants Citi to let little league players use its ferry; commercial rent-control bill being debated by the city council; Au Cheval forecast.
••• 10/24: Kataoka jewelry store is open. Plus: Grand rooms at former banks now for private use; more on the Bronx Museum of the Arts incubator; local thefts.

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HOPE DIMS FOR THE HOLLAND TUNNEL TRAFFIC STUDY
The study is now estimated to take at least two years. Sometime next spring, the city will make attempts at short-term improvements.

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GYRO JOINT OPENING ON CHURCH
A restaurant called This Is Gyro is taking the space that was most recently Papa Kitchen.

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