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So, I wanted to bake Erik a cake. But since he’s on the other side of the country, where my sources tell me the bathrooms not only have windows but those windows have views, I got an assist from a local expert for a digital version. Rachel Thebault, the owner of Tribeca Treats (sniff), allowed me to reprint the recipe for Erik’s favorite, Devil’s Food Cake with Chocolate Frosting, from her cookbook, iced with this apt inscription. Make it at home, and when you do, raise your fork:
To Erik: thank you from us — your readers — for your smarts, your humor and your contribution to the neighborhood. It’s no small thing. You should be proud. You gave us all a water cooler, a backyard fence to yell over, a place to meet and share and schmooze. The Tribeca Citizen has reinforced for all of us why we love living here (and sometimes reminded us why we hate living here) and what makes this place really feel like a small town in the biggest, best city.
You left a legacy.
And I hope to keep it alive. So enough about him, here’s a bit about me. Hopefully not too much to bore you.
Dear readers, this thing works because it’s a collaboration, an exercise in participation, an exchange. I’ll tell you all I can learn; you tell me what you know. Ask me about stuff you don’t know but want to find out and I’ll dig for it. In short: KEEP THE TIPS COMING.
To give you some context, I got here before 200 Chambers, but after the Miller Highway. Before Bed, Bath and Beyond but after Gee Whiz. Before the German School of Manhattan, but after Church Street School. I take classes at Downtown Dance Factory and Xtend Tribeca, drink at The Patriot and The Odeon and Tiny’s, and I’m currently seeking a new regular restaurant. (We are serial monogamists, going to the same place over and over. First it was Upstairs at Bouley, then Blaue Gans. We left off there.) Lance Lappin gave me my first professional haircut when I was 18 and living on Long Island (long story).
I’m what I guess you could call a classically trained journalist: I was raised in a tradition passed down by hard-boiled newsmen (yes, men) at Columbia Journalism School, then got my first reporting and editing job at The Riverdale Press in the Bronx. In a weird only-in-New-York-coincidence, I wrote a couple stories for Erik when he was at Budget Travel magazine, years before I even moved to Tribeca. I taught at Columbia J-school for 14 years; I now teach journalism at Hunter College.
I’m married and have three teenaged kids, two of whom went to PS 234 and one who’s in college. Over the years and across the three kids, we’ve spent 35 seasons watching Downtown Little League or Downtown Soccer League games. I’ve been on the board of Friends of Washington Market Park since we moved here in 2004, and I am an appointee of the borough president to the Hudson River Park Trust. We moved here in part for the parks; they have not let us down. Oh, and I was on Community Board 4 for 14 years, part of that time as chair.
I bought the Tribeca Citizen from Erik because it combines all my interests and skills in one tidy heap — and because I didn’t want to see it go. With your help, we can keep the conversation going. ~Pam Frederick
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Welcome and thank you for keeping the Tribeca Citizen and our collective affection for this neighborhood alive! Taste of Tribeca is in its 25th year and for a while we were panicking about not being able to advertise our event here. We’re thrilled we still can. Best of luck and we will be in touch soon!
Congratulations and thank you for taking on TC. I am a wee bit older than I used to be and my eye sight is failing. I missed your name.
Congratulations and good luck!!
Awesome news!
Good luck with your new business. The community definitely needs a voice. Please call me!
This is good news! Thank for buying the Tribeca Citizen. I enjoyed reading your column.
Thank you for continuing this site and for the introduction! Good luck!
Thank you! Looking forward to reading!
Fantastic–congratulations, Pam! You’re going to rock it. (Erik, you’ll be so missed!)
Thanks!!
You will be missed, generally.
Thanks! See you in the park~
Congratulations Pam!
Thrilled for you and for all us readers.
Thanks, Rene! See you soon!
Wonderful news! Am looking forward to following both your divergent paths.
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Erik you will be missed but I am thrilled to hear about Pam. She will be fantastic!
Thanks, man.
Thank you and good luck!
This transition feels so right!
I knew Erik’s email for pictures and “tips”. What is you email? And thank you for taking over. Best of luck.
Thanks! Hope to keep it much the same since I think everyone felt it really worked.
Welcome Pam! Excited to see how you put your “stamp” on TC.
Thanks, Carol. Love your shop.
Welcome!
Welcome Pam – glad to know TC will go in… all the best!!
Thanks!!
Welcome Pam!
Thank you so much for keeping this important resource going. I look forward to sending along tips whenever I can.
Onwards!
FH
Thanks, Frank!!
And yes, keep it coming.
Best of luck!
Welcome! This makes me so happy.
Great!!
This is very cool. Congrats, Pam
Pam, this is great news!
Erik with a k, thank you for all the hot tips and for reporting on the CB meetings for us over the years! Your new California neighborhood is lucky to have you.
Agree on Cali.
Pam – So excited you will be taking over!
Miss you!
Barbara (Sophie’s Mom)
Saw Sophie at debate tourney!! I coach the Beacon team. Hope to see more of her when we do a scrimmage with Clinton!
Great news!! Best of luck!
Very glad to hear that the TC will continue under your auspices.
Welcome! Thanks for stepping up.
Here’s your first tip—
The winter version of the WTC farmers market opened in the Oculus yesterday. It will be there on Tuesdays until June when it moves back outside. Two bakeries, an orchard, and the spirits place. Can’t find any info on their web site but it was there from early until 6-ish.
Are the Citizen emails going to you yet?
Thanks! I saw that on the FiDi Fan Page — linking there now. According to Luis, it’s open from 7:30 to 7. But yes, nothing on Oculus website. Weird.
And yes, emails coming to me.
What an amazing platform and service to our neighborhood. Thank you for your great work.
And welcome to Pam. I can’t think of a better person to take the Tribeca Citizen over! Wonderful news.
:)
Congratulations! I love this publication it makes Tribeca feel like the small community that we love so much. And it’s been super valuable over the years. Here’s to your success!
I’m so happy TC is in the hands of someone authentically engaged! Good luck!
Thanks! And I might quote you on that…
Congrats Pam! I cannot think of anyone more capable of filling Eric’s giant shoes!
THanks, Michael!
Welcome!
Sending belated best wishes to Erik, and thank you for creating Tribeca Citizen.
As for you, Pam — I am so excited to know Tribeca Citizen has landed in such wonderful hands! Woo hoo! (And thank you!)
Yay Pam!!! Thank you for the introduction and for taking over TC.
ET created something wonderful here, and I’m thrilled to see that you’ll carry on what’s become an enjoyable and edifying part of our daily news check! Will contribute pix and questions whenever possible. Congrats on your new venture.
Thanks!
Best of luck Erik!! Welcome Pam!! We are so excited to see this newspaper handed off.
Best of luck :)
Congratulations, Pam! You are The Natural for this, I’m so happy for you and the neighborhood!
pbb
p.s. I know you’ll strive to do better discerning opinion from reality and fiction from fact.
Love, Boston #1
Thanks, PBB. Boston, rock on. We know who is #1.
Go, Pam!! Just the best news that the new Tribeca Citizen is YOU! Thank you!!
Thanks, Liina!
Welcome Pam! I can’t wait to see how TC develops.
So glad this is continuing. Good luck, Pam!
Thanks!!
Congratulations, Pam! So thrilled to learn you have taken this on.
Thanks, Naomi!
I really wish EriK wouldn’t have sold the site to Pam the FredERIK and just let a nail salon take over the site. That’s Tribeca!
Wow, I had no idea I had an erik in my name, though missing the c.
Pam, Welcome and thanks. We love TC. Do you have a dog as cute as Erik’s Howard? JV
I have a cat that’s cuter, but probably weirder.
Glad to see TC lives on .Best Of Luck Pam !
Thanks!
Thank you Pam for taking over! I can’t wait to see your impact on the site! And thank you Erik, best of luck in CA!!
Congratulations, Pam. Let me know if I can help with Save Our Seaport stuff
Keep me posted, Michael! Thought of you the other day with talk of the USS United States at the AC meeting…
Pam, good luck. Seems like you are a big deal, judging from references to board memberships (I find management scary enough, boards even scarier). And you seem to write well. We are in safe hands. Thank goodness and Erik.
Pinky Joon Joon
Thanks, Pinky JJ! But no big deal here. Boards are cake. Journalism is tough. But if it’s not hard, it’s not worth doing, right? ;)
Go Pam! Use your special brand of humor every day in these “pages”
I keep up with the neighborhood from Charleston, so I know where to eat when I visit ? So glad you’re taking over!
Feels like a miracle! I had the privilege of serving on Washington Market Park Friends board alongside Pam, and was she ever effective / smart // focused / driven / nice. We are so fortunate Pam has stepped up. She and TC will be great.