Tribeca Citizen | Happy Thanksgiving to all, and thanks to all who make this a great place to live

Happy Thanksgiving to all, and thanks to all who make this a great place to live

November 24, 2022 • Community News

Out near my mother on Long Island there’s a local real estate company called “Lucky To Live Here Realty” and seeing the name emblazoned on the storefront gave me a chuckle as I drove by the other day. I can and will certainly say the same thing about this joint, and I know most of you readers feel that way too. Despite our complaints, our grumblings, our many calls to 311, which I like to think are in the interest of making this a better place for all, there’s no place I’d rather be.

Part of that is because so many neighbors here lend their talents, time and energy to providing all sorts of community service. I thought of this again on Sunday night, as the leaders of Downtown Soccer League presented roses — in the freezing cold, I will note — to a crew of girls who were among the first to graduate out of the league’s girls division, which was started in 2015 (more on that later).

And then again on Halloween, as a couple thousand folks paraded down Greenwich to Washington Market Park, behind the Queer Big Apple Corps, and another hundred brought their hand-carved pumpkins to display in the park.

And all summer at Duane Park on Thursday nights, when the Friends cued up a different band each week. And then there’s Taste! Back after a forced hiatus. Hence the following list, originally made for Saori Kawano of Korin, who wanted to give back to the neighborhood on the occasion of her shop’s 40th anniversary. I have passed the list on a dozen times since then, when folks want to know how to get involved.