LOFT PEEPING: PJ MATTAN & JETT HOUSE
“I would like to create and live in a couple of very different kind of spaces,” White Street resident PJ Mattan told the Design Files. “This one I like to call an ‘eclectic creative playground.'” That explains the tepee, trampoline, and drone.

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FOOTAGE OF TRIBECA IN THE 1970S
For most Tribecans, the appeal of Chantal Akerman’s News from Home is likely to be in the time-capsule element: downtown New York City in real time, in all its mundane glory.

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THREE REASONS THE LIVE WELL COMPANY ROCKS
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A HUGE LEAP FORWARD FOR PIER 26
Designers have been announced for the pier, and a corporate neighbor made a sizable donation.

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BEST KIDS’ BIRTHDAY PARTIES IN TRIBECA
For a birthday party that you and your child will always remember fondly, call in the experts. Sponsored.

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 10/8: Tribeca in 1977. Plus: Action in a long-dormant Hudson storefront; another mysterious photo on Duane; migrating birds spotted; new café on Nassau; Katherine Heigl TV movie shooting here.
••• 10/9: Teenager pepper-sprayed for his phone. Plus: British chain opening a Fulton Center restaurant; searching for Tribeca expats; P.S. 150 rummage sale; Church Street School wants LMDC funds; Lot 77’s reinvention; Baron Von Fancy billboards.
••• 10/10: Signs of life at the IPN strip mall (above). Plus: Liberty Park construction; pop-up at Cass Lilien’s shop; the potential of newly reopened Drumgoole Plaza; Friends of DeLury Park events; Gucci at Brookfield Place; “Mini NYC” shoot.

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WHERE IN TRIBECA…?
Congratulations again to the indomitable Jim Smithers, who correctly identified last week’s Where in Tribeca…? (Click the link to learn the answer.) We’ll play again Friday morning.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 10/8: Tribeca’s famous UPS driver. Plus: Gristedes could be leaving Battery Park City; recapping northeast Tribeca development; the director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage has resigned; new Greek restaurant in FiDi; Black Tap opens a second location.
••• 10/9: Loitering in Battery Park City’s parks. Plus: NYPD commissioner rips joint out of woman’s mouth on Wall Street; Sessanta now serving lunch; Lower Manhattan shut out of crossing guards funds; Noël Jefferson leaves Community Board 1.

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