TONIGHT (A.K.A. FAT TUESDAY)
••• The BPC Neighbors Association has organized a Mardi Gras get-together from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Steamers Landing, where there will be free hors d’oeuvres and discounted specialty drinks. Neighbors are welcome.
••• Singer Queen Esther performs at Duane Park restaurant.

GREAT SHOTS
Artist Jennifer Kotter takes wonderful photographs—like the two at left—of the details and textures that make downtown New York like nowhere else. Alicia Kachmar learns about the woman behind the lens.

REAL ESTATE
The New York Post runs down the sales status of high-profile real-estate developments in Tribeca, including The Smyth Upstairs, One York, V33, 56 Leonard, and the Fairchild.

COMING UP
••• “The Fist Clenched Round My Heart: An Exhibition of Love Poetry at Poets House” is now up, through Mar. 13.
••• Author Anne Nelson’s appearance at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, originally scheduled for last Wednesday, will now be on Wednesday, Feb. 17 ($5). She’ll be discussing Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler.
••• Apexart has two opportunities to get creative with with artist Lexa Walsh: You can write and record jingles about New York  (Wednesday, Feb 17, 7–8 p.m.), and participate in a cheerleading workshop (Thursday, Feb. 18, 11 a.m.–noon). Click here for info and to see the cheer made for me as part of her project….
••• New York Vintners is hosting a dinner with winemaker Francesco Ripaccioli of Canalicchio di Sopra on Friday, Feb. 19.
••• On Tuesday, Feb. 23, Maslow 6 will explore Austrian wines.
••• On the schedule at City Winery: Storytelling collective The Moth (Feb. 17), Rhett Miller and Moneybrother (Mar. 20), Don Dixon and Marti Jones (Apr. 24), and—blast from the past!—the Proclaimers (May 20).
••• This week at Barnes & Noble Tribeca: Drucilla Cornell, author of Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity (today, Feb. 15); Laura Day, author of The Circle: How the Power of a Single Wish Can Change Your Life (Feb. 16). If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge I’m looking to unload, cheap!

RESTAURANTS
••• Terroir Tribeca’s opening date.
••• What’s coming (and when) to the old Greenwich Steak & Burger space.
••• A first impression of TriBeCafe, the new restaurant from the Greenwich Grill team.

IN THE NEWS
••• U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says that the Obama administration is looking at the three attack sites—New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia—as possible venues for the trials.
••• Details emerge on the Asphalt Green/Battery Park City partnership.
••• Kindergarten lottery for P.S. 234.
••• NYT columnist Jim Dwyer weighs in on the turmoil at the Battery Park City Authority.
••• In honor of the Olympics, the NYT drops in on Warren 77.
••• Social Workout test-drives SoulCycle Tribeca.

STEALS AND DEALS
••• Today is the last day to get $50 off Jack Spade bags over $200.
••• Mondo Cane has added almost 100 new items to its website. Whether this 1960s George Nelson table clock is a steal at $1,500 depends on how badly you covet it, no?

PANDERING
••• Which celebrity frequents the Tribeca Beauty Spa? Enquiring minds want to know!