February Recap

In case you missed it, here’s what happened in Tribeca last month. If you find this useful and/or informative, please share it.

••• New Kids on the Block: Crewcuts, Color Me Mine (right), Yorganic, Arts & Sciences Projects, Canal Park Inn, Copper Barrel, Mrs. Cupcake,
••• Coming soon to Reade: Christina Lehr.
••• Coming someday to the World Financial Center: a pizzeria. Coming someday to the Seaport: Johnny Rockets. Coming someday to Duane: a restaurant or bar.
••• A Battery Park City resident was either disorderly or a victim of payback—and either way ended up in Bellevue. The investigation continues…. Or not.
••• 88 Leonard was offered up for sale. Related: Details emerged about Prime Essentials, the drugstore-and-more opening imminently in the building.
••• Revealed: renderings of the rooftop bar (left) proposed for the Conrad, the hotel that’s replacing the Embassy Suites in Battery Park City.
••• A big chunk of 40 Worth storefront was vacated by the city and is now available.
••• Thanks to Wired, we now know the price of “mommy role play sex” (and other acts) in Tribeca. Potential new idea for premium cable show: A group of Tribeca moms decides to work as prostitutes specializing in “mommy role play sex.” Hilarity! And then, maybe they all get addicted to BluePrintCleanse, now at Whole Foods Tribeca. It’s “Hung” meets “Weeds”!
••• A crass billboard went up, perhaps looking to entice vampires.
••• I got excited about the carousel coming to Battery Park. To be fair, it does sound pretty cool. Related: Merchants Hospitality won the concession for the Dutch Pavilion, the pinwheel-shaped building going up in front of the Whitehall Ferry Terminal. Yay, curly fries.
••• Battery Park City was upset about the street closures required for a half-marathon, but the city insisted it happen there anyway.
••• Former CB1 chair Anne Compoccia passed away.
••• Tweets!
••• Funky new building 33 Vestry was revealed. I wasn’t on the beat back then, but I can’t believe this got by Landmarks.
••• Photographer Lee Gillen shared his images of Tribeca street life.
••• The New York Times loved New York by Golly Gehry. Curious what the views are like? The door handles? Actual apartments?
••• I want this apartment (or at least a zebra-print rug).
••• The Hazelden halfway-house proposed for W. Broadway sailed through CB1.
••• Closed: The Gate House in Battery Park City, Borders Wall Street, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Matsugen. In trouble: The Seaport Museum.
••• Trinity Real Estate announced the way it would like to see Hudson Square rezoned. (I love in the one rendering how they used cyclists to distract from the tunnel traffic.) More here.
••• Shadows.
••• 9/11 Memorial congestion traffic finally started to become a front-burner topic. The DOT said it’d start talking to residents in mid-April.
••• The new hotel planned for 71 Reade/87 Chambers (where a building collapsed) was sent back to the drawing board.
••• In the first installment of her “I → NY” series, Anojja Shah interviewed local author Sarah Mlynowski about what it’s like being a Canadian here.
••• The plan to move Statue of Liberty–related security out of Battery Park hit a snag.
••• Nutritionist Amy Shapiro explained how she navigates the menu at Yorganic.
••• The Pier 25 kiosks sprouted signage. Literal!
••• A newspaper deliveryman was accused by a resident of entering her unlocked apartment and groping her while she slept.
••• A big midrange hotel at 99 Washington is a go again.
••• We were nosy about a painting (or two) in the window at 153 Hudson.
••• There was a fire at the Hideaway.
••• Ed Burns decided to call his next film Triangles Below Canal (or maybe Newlyweds).
••• The street-art faces of Tribeca.
••• TCQ&A with Warburg Realty’s Deborah Lupard (right) currently starring in HGTV’s “Selling New York.”
••• A 9/11 sculpture is closer to being installed at Finn Square.
••• The push continues for a more comprehensive African Burial Ground museum.
••• Making the most of my grand jury duty, I compiled a list of eastern Tribeca restaurants.
••• We accepted shelled out for an invitation to a party in Tribeca.
••• The Amish Market filed for Chapter 11.
••• The Design Within Reach space on Hudson has a temporary tenant.
••• The WTC transit center is way over budget.
••• Any new school is now delayed.

 

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