SEEING HOPE IN THE NEW TRIBECA GALLERY DISTRICT
Vulture has a commentary on the new Tribeca art scene, and what it could mean for the city to have a flourishing gallery life again: “Against all odds, can New York have a good art neighborhood with a walkable density of galleries? Galleries with wooden floors, flaws, and funny footprints, which are more like where artists actually make art than all those perfect, concrete-floored slick showrooms?”

…AND THE SAME STORY FROM THE TIMES
“So it’s strange, and a little magical, to see it suddenly filling up with galleries — with three more opening in just the last two weeks and about a dozen participating in last week’s Tribeca Gallery Walk, a biannual tour experience and mini-festival.”

BIKE THEFT IN HUDSON RIVER PARK
The Trib’s police blotter notes that a cyclist — riding at 4a near Vestry — was pulled off his bike and robbed of his sunglasses and the bike itself. (There’s also a report of a thief who tried to make off with 121 deodorants from the Wall Street Duane Reade.)

TINY VEGETABLES FOR BIG FLAVOR
The Post includes Shoji in a story about the popularity of tiny vegetables among chefs around the city. Of the tiniest, 3/4-inch new potatoes, chef Derek Wilcox told The Post: “They’re especially creamy, but not as starchy as a full-grown potato,” Wilcox says. “A guest last night told me, ‘This has ruined potatoes for me forever.’”

GETTING COVERAGE FOR 9/11 ILLNESSES
The Villager covered a recent seminar hosted by BMCC on accessing healthcare for 9/11-related illnesses with Kristen Gillibrand and Jon Stewart on the stage. “Stewart told the audience that Tribeca owes its current vibrancy to them and others who stuck it out through the dark times. ‘That wouldn’t have happened without the courage of the survivors and students who stayed here and didn’t allow this terrible act to drive them from their homes,’ he said of the neighborhood’s vitality.”