Seen & Heard: Updated book on Tribeca architecture

TRIBECA & ITS ARCHITECTURE
The non-profit neighborhood organization Tribeca Trust has come out with an expanded full-color edition of the book once known as “Texture of Tribeca” and now called “Tribeca & its Architecture: An Illustrated History.” The text is by Andrew Dolkart, professor of historic preservation at Columbia University, and the updated images are from local photographer Robert A. Ripps. The new edition also includes rarely-seen historical photographs from the New York Public Library and the Museum of the City of New York and new maps allow readers to plan walks around the neighborhood. The book is $40 including tax and shipping here.

MICHAEL J. FOX’S NEW DOCUMENTARY
Tribecan Nelle Fortenberry (center, with Melanie Zrihen and Chris Boals at the premiere at Alice Tully Hall) is the executive producer behind “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie,” about Fox’s life before and after his Parkinson’s diagnosis. Davis Guggenheim is the director. The film is moving, funny, riveting — and, as Fox said at the Q&A, with no accompanying violins — and most of all provides a window into a life lived with Parkinson’s. It’s also a real treat for superfans (me) or anyone nostalgic for his work, which dominated the small and big screens of the ’80s and ’90s.

QUICK REFLEXES OF A PRO SAVE THE NIGHT
Tribeca resident and now local hero Markus Kuhn, a former NFL defensive tackle and now a sports pundit and the host of NFL Deutschland Podcast, put his good reflexes to work this weekend at a fundraiser held at Tribeca Rooftop. A fellow partygoer leaned against a wall with candles and Kuhn rushed over and immediately patted the flames out with his bare hands. Neither were injured.

WHAT’S LEFT ON ANN STREET
As the city continues to demolish the rubble from the collapse of the Ann Street parking garage that killed its longtime manager, cars are being removed by cranes and carted out. Here’s a few leaving the neighborhood.

 

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  1. Yeah Markus!

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