Newsletter: Jan. 21

TRY-BECK-UH
I bet you’re pronouncing at least one Tribeca business’s name incorrectly. (I was.)

SEEN & HEARD
••• 1/18 roundup: Palm Tribeca deal (post a comment on the item about it on TC’s Facebook page and you’ll be entered to win a dinner for two—the drawing is tonight). Plus: More on Jung Sik Dang (coming to the Chanterelle space), a deal on Battery Gardens, and how a plate of nachos totally beat me.
••• 1/19 roundup: New drugstore. Plus: Deals at Bubble Lounge, Papatzul; Landmarc wine dinners; Lolë; the best thing since sliced bread.

TCQ&A: “I WANT BOULEY BAKERY BACK”
Fitness guru Alycea Ungaro (left) of Real Pilates on where her husband got mercury poisoning, how she keeps her kids occupied, and the “little castle” in Tribeca that she’d love to own.

IN THE NEWS
••• 1/18 roundup: New-build hotel. Plus: Martha Stewart’s daughter cuts the price of her apartment again; “smokin’ hot” shoemaker; New York Downtown Hospital upgrades; Alycea Ungaro in the New York Times Magazine.
••• 1/19 roundup: East River Park. Plus: WTC’s massive police presence; I.S. 289 after-school budget crisis; last day to support keeping Millennium High School for downtowners; Mehtaphor; the Ward III guys’ remake of a classic; Landmarc’s spaghetti carbonara.
••• 1/20 roundup: Bogardus Mansion. Plus: Katrina Vonnegut at RH Gallery; Tribeca Townhomes penthouse; huge new Asian restaurant planned for Canal Street; Millennium High School; No. 22 Renwick; Adeline Adeline; BPCer doing good in India; RBC’s coffee maven; hating on fireplaces; affordable housing; James McCune Smith; Kardashians.

WHAT’S UP THIS WEEKEND
1. Hickey & Boggs (1972), with Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, gets a viewing on Saturday at 92YTribeca.
2. The Museum of Chinese in America is leading a bunch of Chinatown walking tours about preparations for the Lunar New Year Parade and Festival (on Feb. 6). The first tour is this Saturday.
3. The well-reviewed “Pants on Fire’s Metamorphoses” continues at the Flea.
Just four of the highlights from the calendar for this week. More info on these—and the full calendar—is here.

TWELVE TWEETS OF TRIBECA
Fistfights! Celebrities! Free Champagne! That’s life in Tweebeca for you. (The first one kills me every time.)

 

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