It’s been a few days since the last newsletter because I’m thinking maybe they need to come out less often…. What I want to try now is posting daily (on the site proper) the kind of recaps that used to be in the newsletter, and instead use the newsletter to look back at the highlights of the past week or so. (I don’t want to burn anyone out.) Feedback? TribecaCitizen@gmail.com.

TIME IS RUNNING OUT! Christmas is in a mere 20 days…. The Tribeca Citizen “2009 Buy-Local Gift Guide” can help you find the perfect gift without having to get on the subway. Streets covered so far: Murray and Warren; and Washington, Vestry, and Beach. Coming up next: Greenwich.

SMART HOST = HAPPY GUESTS “Station the bar as far back into the space as possible, to draw the crowd away from the front door and avoid a bottleneck getting in or out.” That’s just one of the useful party-planning tips—exclusively on Tribeca Citizen—from Jennifer Gilbert, founder of event-planners Save the Date and a member of the upcoming season of Real Housewives of New York City.

STATE OF GRACE? Is something finally coming to the old Grace space on Franklin?

THIS WEEKEND Poets House has an exhibit of Robert Frost’s Christmas “cards” (including the somewhat existential one at left). ••• Today’s Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club is devoted to silent movies starring Buster Keaton (with piano accompaniment). Also at Tribeca Cinemas, the Romanian Film Festival. ••• The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian’s 2009 Art Market is Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, with jewelry, pottery, baskets, beadwork, clothing, and more.

STEALS AND DEALS NYC Extreme Local can get American Express cardholders $50 after $300 of purchases at certain stores. Totally worth doing. ••• More North, the cleverly named Scandinavian design store on N. Moore, is closing Dec. 12. Everything is on sale, but it’s going fast. ••• Over the next two days, show this coupon at many Seaport-area stores for various discounts (via Broadsheet Daily). ••• GK Framing is having a pre-holiday sale on mirrors, discounting them by 50–70 percent. ••• Become a fan of Spot on Facebook and you’ll get $5 off your next purchase. ••• The Museum of Jewish Heritage’s gift shop is offering free domestic shipping on all online and phone orders and on in-store purchases of $50 or more.

AROUND THE WEB “Public School Zoning Mayhem” (Broadsheet Daily). ••• “Everything There Is to Know About the Fast-Approaching Trump Soho,” including far more than you ever thought to ask (Curbed). ••• The Fiterman Hall groundbreaking had some d-r-a-m-a (Downtown Express). ••• Concerns that the BPCA-funded, Asphalt Green-managed community center in Battery Park City will swallow up the competition (Broadsheet Daily).