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    Match Game: Apartment Buildings’ Names

    Can you match the name and the address of these 10 Tribeca buildings? Plus: pug photos. / 2 comments

    Newsletter: Mar. 31

    Progress Report: Southern Tribeca • Whole Foods' new meat labels • CB1 agendas for April • New kid on the block: Xoos French Shirts • Anne Frank Museum • East RIver Park • Naked Pizza • Gehry building • By Robert James • More

    Seen & Heard: The Harrison

    Reopening for lunch. Plus: New York by Gehry update; Fulton Stall Market opening date; sexy new magic show; Josephine's outdoor seating; cocktails and jazz for Japan; free wi-fi.

    In the News: Naked Pizza

    With prebiotics and probiotics.... Plus: Park51 founders propose an interfaith center; Gwyneth Paltrow mulling a magazine; two events at Downtown Community Center.

    The Meat of the Matter

    Kudos to Whole Foods for making it a lot easier to determine whether its meat was raised humanely.

    Seen & Heard: By Robert James

    New menswear sort-of-store; American Apparel deal; drinking whiskey and doing Zumba for Japan; a missed connection at Ward III.

    In the News: East River Park

    Coming in May. Plus: 471 Washington on figurative fire; lobster roll forecast; Burnsie's latest gets a prime festival spot; artist Andy Jurinko; 70 Pine's murky future; Tania Anthony of Resale-Riches; Sophie's "crack-like" green sauce; hanging with the homeless.

    Nosy Neighbor: The Gehry Building’s Cigar Band

    "Why does the Frank Gehry building have those three-story windows in the middle? Is something special in there?" —Sharon UPDATE 3/30: Two architect types weigh in, via Curbed. / 1 comment

    New Kid on the Block: Xoos French Shirts

    The shirts at Xoos French Shirts are all limited-edition: Once a style sells out, it's gone for good.

    On the Agendas: April 2011

    Luke's Lobster in FiDi, a new building for Franklin Street, building above the Warren Street dog run, and more: What CB1 will be discussing this month. / 6 comments

    Seen & Heard: Museum Deal

    And it's a good one. Plus: Free French food (from an airline, served out of a truck); free microchipping (of your pet); zebraspotting; cute cake.

    In the News: Anne Frank Museum

    ...coming to southern Tribeca? Plus: Poets House boom; history around City Hall Park; buses buses buses buses.