TARA KITCHEN GETS RAVE REVIEW
Eater calls Tara Kitchen one of the city’s best Moroccan restairants. “Tara Kitchen is the best Moroccan restaurant to hit NYC in a long time. The recipes have benefited from being fine-tuned at [owner Aneesa] Waheed’s previous restaurants, and have a lived-in quality that made them seem like Mom’s home cooking, Moroccan-style. More attention is paid to flavor than appearance, which is a good thing if you don’t visit restaurants to bolster your Instagram.”

COUNCILMAN’S AIDE ACCUSED OF SEXIST RANT
The Daily News reports that a reporter for the Chinese language Sing Tao Daily, Lotus Chau, says an aide to Councilman Christopher Marte, Stephen Wong, recently berated her in a series of voicemails. “The messages, which were in Cantonese, said ‘F–k you,’ ‘f–k your mother,’ ‘you c–t,’ ‘c–t between your knees,’ ‘slaughter … you pig,’ ‘you c–t pig’ and ‘your newspaper go die,’” Chau wrote in the complaint to the City Council, which was obtained by the Daily News.”

TOURING DOWNTOWN’S ABOLITIONIST SITES
Untapped New York has a tour of sites important in the abolitionist and Underground Railroad movement, starting with the David Ruggles house at 36 Lispenard and then 2 White, continuing on to the African Society for Mutual Relief at 42 Baxter Street in Chinatown; the African Free School at 135-137 Mulberry; Shiloh Presbyterian Church at Frankfort Street/William Street; the former Mother AME Zion Church at 158 Church Street; Downing’s Oyster House at 5 Broad Street; Sailors’ Home at 330 Pearl Street; Shiloh Presbyterian Church at Frankfort Street/William Street.

THE ULTIMATE BACHELOR PAD
Elle Decor has a story about a French bachelor and his duplex here (you eagle eyes can tell me the building when you see the view) designed by the firm Cochineal. And they sum up the neighborhood this way: “TriBeCa conjures up a very specific image — cobblestone streets, industrial spaces, and extreme wealth. But when it started to turn residential nearly 40 years ago it was still a no-man’s-land, with loft spaces perfectly untouched and more exposed brick than you would know what to do with.”