Newsletter: March 7

PENZLER’S MYSTERY COLLECTION ON THE BLOCK
The owner of The Mysterious Bookshop is auctioning off his collection — 55,000 titles — this week, with a Dashiell Hammett first edition expected to fetch $60K.

AU CHEVAL UPDATE: WORTH THE WAIT?
The place is gorgeous, the kitchen is open to the dining room, and the happy crowd seems to average around 34. The lines are also three hours long.

NKOTB: RAZZLEDAZZLE BARBERSHOP
The Miami-based chain’s fifth shop opened here in January with its signature burlesque-themed decor and corseted haircutters whose goal is to pamper the customer.

TRIBECA ART+CULTURE NIGHT TONIGHT!
The neighborhood arts celebration will take place at dozens of venues, including fine art galleries, arts non-profits, performance spaces and artists studios.

SEEN & HEARD
March 6: Development at the 74 Hudson parking lot. Plus Stella online; Nish Nush gets a facelift; Nova Fitness to open soon on Church; news on the 23 Warren sidewalk shed; and a farewell to a FiDi dive bar, swing and all.
March 5: The breakfast burrito edition: Grab-and-go at El Vez and Go Catering; commissary coming to White Street?; founder leaving Best Made; effort to help Pace name a subway stop; Tribeca Art+Culture night this week; new restaurant in Bouley space?
March 4: All scream… Plus Color Vue opening on Warren; Tribeca Gallery Walk (another one) on March 10; creepy guy on Canal and Broadway; Hungry Ghost comes to Sun In Bloom spot.

IN THE NEWS
March 5: Crushing the competition with $$$  Tribeca’s own 10007 came in number 5 on Bloomberg’s annual richest zip code list, leapfrogging 17 places over Short Hills and Boca Grande, and earning a place in history: the first time a Manhattan zip code busted into the top 20.
March 4: Sept. 11 victim funds threatened Plus The Dominick, fka Trump SoHo, may be for sale; Grub Street picks up a bit of gossip from a Park Row condo; a plea in the Paula Chin murder case

CB1 MARCH MEETINGS
Some highlights: beer is back at Regal; Bouley space has some action; “leisure house” on Broadway and White; proliferation of movie permits; sidewalk shed and scaffolding reform.

 

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