FIRST IMPRESSIONS: TRIBECA CANVAS
The food at Morimoto’s new Tribeca Canvas (above) is like a stoner’s fantasy of around-the-world travel. The room is a different sort of trip.

HAPPY DECEMBER!
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS: NISH NUSH
Tribeca finally gets a falafel restaurant (left) that doesn’t look as if it belongs in a bus station.

IN THE NEWS
••• 12/3: Sandy downturn? Plus: Pet store hurt by storm; BPC ball fields update; R train semi-revived; tourism drought; Ed Burns wants a footbridge.
••• 12/4: World Financial Center shops closing (in this round: Banana Republic, Cosi, and Sunglass Hut). Plus: Real estate rebound; 88 Greenwich residents getting back in; FiDi post office still closed.
••• 12/5: Community Board 1 is blocking Asphalt Green again. Plus: Damage to the ball fields, Pier A, and Asphalt Green; Russell Crowe is stinking up the Greenwich Hotel; more on El Vez Mexican restaurant; Marc Forgione moonlights; 67 Vestry.

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TRIBECA THEN & NOW #2
The second batch of now-vs.-the-80s photos includes Staple, Harrison, Jay, and Hudson.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 12/3: Openings and reopenings, as Cricketer’s Arms and Liberty View ice rink slated to open this week. Plus: Mark Joseph reopened; a rumored new spot for Bread Tribeca; John Turturro film shooting here; John Bartlett sale.
••• 12/4: Il Mattone + Tre Sorelle. Plus: J and Z trains; helping Pier 25; Salty Paw moving to a new space; Watts boundaries.
••• 12/5: New bar on Murray. Plus: Ice rink pushed back again; Tribeca Canvas got its hooch permit; community board application sessions; Palm lunch delivery; Pace dorm looking near done.

IF YOU’RE BORED WITH DINNER IT’S YOUR OWN FAULT
The Tribeca Citizen Restaurant Guide continues to be updated regularly. (To find it, just look for the blue logo.) These are the restaurants that have been added….