QUIZ: DEAD RESTAURANTS (PART 2)
“Owner XXXXXX warmly welcomes friends and strangers alike, and if it appears that there’s no table for you, fear not—he might get one wheeled in from the back.” Can you identify these 10 deceased restaurants, as once described in the Tribeca Citizen Restaurant Guide?

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COMMUNITY BOARD 1’S NOVEMBER AGENDAS
What’s being discussed this month: New restaurant in the Blaue Gans space; four-story addition proposed for two-story building on Franklin; two existing restaurants appear top be getting taken over; booze at the Dirty Lemon store; Alamo Drafthouse; more. Read the annotated agendas.

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The passion of Tango comes to Tribeca! Tribeca Performing Arts Center presents “Tango Legends” on Saturday, November 17, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, November 18, at 3 p.m. This spectacular company of dazzling tango dancers will be led by Pablo Sosa and Mariela Maldonado. Coming up in Tribeca PAC’s Family Theater Series is “Pete the Cat” on Thanksgiving weekend, Saturday, November 24, and Sunday, November 25, at 11 a.m. On Tuesday, November 27, at 7:30 p.m, “Scenes Through the Cinema Lens,” a FREE film retrospective, explores the films of Ingmar Bergman. Tribeca PAC is located on 199 Chambers St. (BMCC campus). Sponsored.

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 11/5: Two Hands to serve dinner again. Plus: Physique 57 opened on Sixth Ave.; Watts Street parking vigilante; Staple Street photo solved; 130 William’s facade panels.
••• 11/6: Two new galleries—Hionas Gallery is returning to Tribeca, and Bortolami is involved in a new venture at the former Artists Space on Walker. Plus: Pop-up gallery on Warren; new work by Jeff Zimmerman; show of Tribeca paintings; 1st Precinct meeting for Soho and Hudson Square.
••• 11/7: Maman’s Northwest Tribeca outpost opens Monday (above). Plus: There’s a Taim on Maiden Lane; Confederate memorials at Soho Photo; Diwali family event at Everafter; 108 Leonard at night; wrong-way drivers on W. Broadway.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 11/5: Loft peeping at 443 Greenwich. Plus: Popcorn pop-up; more on the development of the Tribeca Cinemas building; alley painter; why Cynthia Nixon is running against Deborah Glick; fast-casual Chinese in FiDi; Savannah Guthrie; the three ballot proposals.
••• 11/6: Racist graffiti at the African Burial Ground National Monument. Plus: Review of Primo’s bar; actor bought $19 million Tribeca apartment; Il Mattone to open a third outpost; Nike leases office space at Pier 17; more on Duane Street topper.
••• 11/7: Inside an interior designer’s Tribeca loft. Plus: All three ballot proposals approved; Jerry Nadler as head of the Judiciary Committee; recent local muggings and thefts; Lobster GoGo opened in the Seaport.

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HOW TRIBECA BECAME TRIBECA
The History of Tribeca Buildings database—compiled from Tom Miller’s posts at Daytonian in Manhattan—now has more than 125 entries, each with the zesty anecdotes you’ve come to expect. Here are six recent additions.

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