B & CO AND BOUNDLESS PLAINS WIN GRANTS
The Downtown Alliance awarded $10,000 grants to both B & Co NYC and Boundless Plains Espresso as part of the organization’s second annual Downtown Digital Innovation Grant program to help small businesses jumpstart a digital business plan.

B & Co, the longstanding deli formerly known as Bits and Bites at 22 Park Place, plans to use the grant to make its website mobile-friendly. Its founder, Robert Garber, opened 22 years ago and back then, didn’t have to consider lunch being ordered from a mobile phone on the internet. “It’s hard for a small business like ours to adapt to new technologies,” said Garber.

Boundless Plains Espresso at 19 Rector is run by local resident and native Australian Jo Black, who opened the shop to bring a bit of her homeland’s coffee scene to Lower Manhattan. The shop serves espresso, cappuccinos and lattes with the Australian-preferred ratio of coffee-to-milk, as well as staples such as avocado toast and overnight oats. Boundless Plains plans will use its grant to build an online ordering and delivery platform and a social media strategy.

A NEW VIEW UP CHURCH STREET
The corner of Chambers and Church is now fully free of a sidewalk shed, now that Tribeca Rogue at 146 Church is finished. (If only the fences for the repair of Church would go away as well…) The new 10-story, mixed-use residential building has eight one- to three-bedroom full-floor condos with direct, keyed elevator access into each apartment. The building also has landscaped terraces on the seventh and penthouse floors and a private rooftop exclusively for the penthouse.

JUDICIAL CANDIDATE FORUM
The local Democratic political clubs will host a forum for the candidates for two open supreme court judge seats on August 5, 6 to 9p, Church Street School at 41 White. All are invited; you do not need to be a member to attend. Immediately after the candidates speak, Downtown Independent Democrat members will debate and vote on which candidates to endorse.

KIRSCHENBAUM AT POSTMASTERS
Postmasters Gallery will show Self Portrait by Bernard Kirschenbaum through August 25. A set of thirteen progressive geometric shapes (triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon and so on) separated and spread around the gallery space, Self Portrait is deceptively simple: a seemingly symmetrical, circular work, suggesting a perfect abstract order. The cherry wood is no accident; Kirschenbaum means “cherry tree.”