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NEW BUILDING REPORT CARD: THE STERLING MASON
Is the half-new, half-converted condo at Greenwich and Laight better than what preceded it? Does it resemble the renderings at all? Does it add to the neighborhood or detract from it? Let’s take a look.
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IN THE NEWS
••• 7/25: Ferry crash. Plus: Chef Floyd Cardoz’s new restaurant, a “contemporary update” of Tabla; Westfield sues Bebe for bailing on the World Trade Center mall; the history of 105 Broad.
••• 7/26: Eataly details (and it opens “in the next week or two”). Plus: The chef at the Eataly osteria (above); FiDi landmark to be lighted again; looking back at the much-loved Tribeca restaurant Riverrun.
••• 7/27: Swiss Institute’s temporary gallery on Franklin. Plus: Three other stores that pulled out of the World Trade Center mall; Community Board 1 wants the Sphere out of Liberty Park; Black Tap on the Lower East Side; China Blue owners to open Williamsburg restaurant.
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NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: ETHAN ROSE SALON
Crystal Torres, Battery Park City resident and longtime Tribeca hairstylist, has opened Ethan Rose Salon on Harrison, where you can have a mani-pedi while you’re getting your hair done. “And we’ve executed it so that you’re always comfortable,” she says.
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SEEN & HEARD
••• 7/25: The lifting of the street fair ban. Plus: Ducklings in peril; new photographers’ tour of the Woolworth Building; opening forecast for Heyday facial spa; forum on changes to South End Avenue; FiDi Sephora closing.
••• 7/26: Rainbow over Tribeca (above, by Brian Haklisch). Plus: A restaurant-ish space in northwest Tribeca; Independence Plaza North retail; something opening in the former Kiki de Montparnasse store; Foals concert shoot; Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency Project town hall.
••• 7/27: 60 White interior. Plus: Walker Street renovation; report on the free fireboat ride; River Project’s 30th anniversary benefit; Duane retail space activity; Lower West Side block party.
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