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    Sandy: What’s Open Thursday

    I'll update this post as real-time as I can. / 17 comments

    Seen & Heard: Whole Foods Is Open

    Plus: Grim news from the Battery Conservancy and in the Seaport; World Financial Center and Century 21 open; another shot at Halloween; Benares restaurant; Jay-Z to the rescue. / 1 comment

    Self-Improvement on Murray Street

    Do you need help with your respiration, civility, and concentration? Baby, you're in luck: The DeRose Method is opening a studio in Tribeca. / 30 comments

    Newsletter: Nov. 1

    We've faced jihadist terrorists, unshowered anarchists, never-ending construction, anti-Islam bigots, a startling lack of school-capacity planning, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn's house arrest. We can handle this. / 2 comments

    Seen & Heard: Downtown Community Center Flooding

    Plus: Aamanns/Copenhagen opening delayed; Matt Bernson sample sale; "Boardwalk Empire" on Tribeca; T-shirts. / 1 comment

    In the News: Parking Garage Tragedy

    Plus: Baby born during the storm; Katie Holmes; Halloween parade; Seaport dining; Trinity Place department store; data-center central; Jason Binn; Battery turkey; FiDi nightclub, Ward III's Sandy cocktail; Tribeca walking tour report.

    Sandy’s Aftermath

    Here are a few updates that have come in, along with photos from during and after the storm. If you get power back, please comment on this post and include your address (or at least your block). / 9 comments

    Newsletter: Oct. 29

    Sandy Timeline • Tribeca in the 1980s • Bread Tribeca • Aamanns Opening Date • Drybar Delay • "Seaport" Signage • Cortlandt Way • More

    Share Your Sandy

    Send in your storm-related photos, videos, observations, and news, and I'll post them here. UPDATE: Photos are coming in.... UPDATE Tues: I can't update this but you can comment or go to twitter.com/tribecacitizen (you can see updates even if you don't have a Twitter account) / 56 comments

    Sandy Evacuation Info

    In times like this, I'll do what I can, but I encourage you to get your information from a news source such as the New York Times. In the meantime, here's the map of evaucation zones.

    Real Estate Sales Report

    Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were "recorded" by the city in the past seven days (ending 10/27/12)—the sales may have taken place earlier.

    Seen & Heard: Drybar Delayed

    Plus: The Starbucks in the World Financial Center is staying open for a while longer; 165 Church update; medlars and pickles; Nassau construction finished; want to invest in a new Tribeca restaurant? / 1 comment