Newsletter: Aug. 15

INSTRAGRAM TRIBECA (VOL. 7)
More of my favorite Instagram photos of greater Tribeca. Seriously, they’re pretty great. (If you took one of these and you don’t want it to be included, please just say so and I’ll remove it.)

SPRING/SUMMER SALE AT A UNO TRIBECA
A Uno Tribeca, the fashionable women’s boutique, is having its annual Spring/Summer Sale. Save 50% on jewelry by Jordan Schlanger, Maria Calderara, Lara Bohing, and Miguel Ase; pants by M+F Girbaud; and A Uno’s in-house label, a bene. Save on all the very current collections: Aimee G, a New York designer known for her bohemian styling, and Black Label’s sheer, lightweight cotton pieces. And throughout the boutique, you’ll find the “got to haves” at spectacularly low prices. 123 W. Broadway (at Duane), 212-227-6233. Sponsored.

PALMICIDE AT THE WINTER GARDEN
The palm trees inside the Brookfield Place Winter Garden are being cut down—they’re old and too tall and they’ll be “mulched and used as fodder for serenity gardens at local hospitals.” (Wait, do we have more than one local hospital?)

SEEN & HEARD
••• 8/12: Tenant for the ExerBlast space. Plus: Fiddling with W. Broadway traffic light; Shensai Parsi New Year dinner; 376 Broadway mystery; Hotel Particulier event.
••• 8/13: Greenmarket textile lab. Plus: “Where in Tribeca…?” answer; Battery Urban Farm helping God’s Love We Deliver; café seating at Saleya.
••• 8/14: The Butterfly’s lunch menu (it’s doing takeout, too). Plus: Lovely bridal salon; restaurant opportunity on Reade.

NOW THROUGH AUGUST 18: THE SUMMER OF SLEEP AT DUXIANA®
Independent studies have shown that overall, those who slept on the DUX® Bed received about 10% more deep sleep each night. That’s approximately one hour more every night. Buy a DUX Bed through August 18 and we’ll include additional accessories, including headboards, custom bed skirts, fine linen and luxury down, valued at up to 10% of your bed purchase. Visit the Duxiana store at 161 Hudson or call 212-777-0771 for details; cannot be combined with any other offers or discounts. Sponsored.

VALENTINE NO. 33
Bright light, small city.

IN THE NEWS
••• 8/12: Sheldon Silver addicted to frequent-flier miles. Plus: The Freight-elevator-shaft Museum in Cortlandt Alley; gossip entrepreneur; qualms about Hudson River Park’s air-rights deal.
••• 8/13: Praise for Khe-Yo. Plus: Dissecting a sale at 14 Jay; proposed storefront changes to old American Stock Exchange; Jersey Mike’s review; yet another Tribeca Pediatrics; book of 9/11 artifacts; if the Ghostbusters firehouse were for sale….
••• 8/14: An even bigger Brookfield Place. Plus: Shaun Hergatt’s new restaurant; the Landmarks Preservation Commission nixes (for now) changes to a FiDi classic; Fulton Street newsstand robbed at gunpoint.

THE HUDSON RIVER PARK’S NEW ESPLANADE
While the Hudson River Park’s new dog run has been getting most of the attention, I’m personally more excited about the new parts of the esplanade. Let’s take a photographic stroll….

 

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