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Seen & Heard: Tribeca Film Festival’s Family Events
Plus: Sail the harbor like Justin Trudeau did; local liquor store is winding down; low-flying planes to map the coastline with lasers; theft-themed literary salon.
Join Us on Easter Sunday
Celebrate Easter this Sunday with Lower Manhattan Community Church. Children's programs for infants through fifth grade will be provided during the service, and there's a youth service for sixth through twelfth grade. / Sponsored
Is 3 World Trade Center a Dud?
The building strikes such a jarring note that the harmony of the World Trade Center complex is at risk. / 14 comments
Newsletter: Apr. 10
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In the News: Police Unions Sell Parking Placards
Plus: Milk Bar opening in FiDi; Pace University expansion gets the Landmarks Preservation Commission's approval; Battery Park City chapel faces rent hike. / 3 comments
Seen & Heard: Hookers, Vixens, and Peglegs
Plus: Five Boro Bike Tour notices; book swap at Torly Kid; Billy Bragg in concert; 1 Beekman is rising above street level; Chinese restaurant seeks beer-and-wine license.
In the News: 56 Leonard’s Common Areas
Plus: The start date for the ferry connecting Wall Street with south Brooklyn; Downtown Little League gets an assist from the Seaport District developer.
A Natural Beauty Shop Is Opening on Hudson
Founded by two downtown residents, ONDA Beauty will be a non-toxic, all-natural beauty product shop with a treatment room for facials and massages.
Where in Tribeca…?
Know where this was shot? Prove it. / 3 comments
Seen & Heard: Avocado Store
Plus: Order Eataly's pizzas and panini for delivery; Khe-Yo's Lao New Year celebration; 70 Vestry's windows; residential construction on Leonard; "Untitled Jenny Lumet Project" is shooting here again. / 7 comments
My Own Little Metropolitan Diary
I keep a journal of amusing interactions—akin to the New York Times’s “Metropolitan Diary,” but less fit for print. / 2 comments
In the News: BPCA’s One Local Board Member Has Resigned
Plus: New FiDi school will open at least three years late; a Tribecan bringing serious coffee to Midtown; new restaurant opening where Soho bar Milady's was; Rockaway ferry to launch on May 1. / 1 comment