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    Seasonal Whispers Gets a Facelift

    "Once we built the Soho store, we couldn’t leave this one looking like a flea market," says co-owner Yafit Goldfarb. / 2 comments

    Newsletter: Mar. 7

    What's new in Battery Park (a lot, actually!) • An update on Greenwich South • 12 Tweets of Tribeca • WFC restaurants • Stuyvesant stupidity • What's up this week • Tiny's • More

    What’s Up This Week

    Puppets, write-your-own obits, a Cuban chanteuse, and Joyce Carol Oates are just a few of the highlights on this week’s agenda.

    Seen & Heard: Pizza Joint Closing?

    Plus: Salaam Bombay deal; upcoming shopping mixer; cool art via Let There Be Neon; wine dinner; yarn art. / 2 comments

    In the News: New Ferries

    Plus: Tom Duane on why we need a bus garage; Trinity wooing Pearson to Hudson Square; Save the Staircase; House of Relief hospital; Skylofts on sale; Taco Tuesday; real estate marketing; Michael Stipe.

    Seen & Heard: Strawberry Closing

    Plus: Deal at Cowgirl Sea-Horse (again); Project No. 8's online sample sale; dates for the Tribeca Film Festival's free movies at the World Financial Center plaza; clay imprints of baby hands.

    Photo Safari: Brooklyn Burns

    This week: photos taken on Church, Broadway, River Terrace, Greenwich, Franklin Place (or maybe it was Cortlandt Alley?), and Beekman.

    In the News: Tiny’s

    Plus: Update on racist Stuyvesant students; 1 Rector Park; free beer; gay conference; too many events in BPC?; guide to pre-K registration.

    Where in Tribeca…?

    Know where this was shot? Say so in the comments. (Update: We have a winner!) / 3 comments

    What’s New in Battery Park

    The funky stuff sprouting at Battery Park includes the pinwheel-shaped Dutch Pavilion (opening in two months), a cool relief map of 1660 New Amsterdam, and a sexy bench. Too bad two trees had to be cut down, though, to make room for the carousel. / 4 comments

    Seen & Heard: WFC Restaurants

    Updates on Caravelli's Pizzeria and Ed's Lobster Bar cart. Plus: Deals for spa treatments, margaritas, and Tex-Mex food; two enthusiasms (one a lunch spot and the other a cookie).

    Greenwich South: An Update

    Trinity Wall Street's new community center, two restaurants coming to south of the World Trade Center, and the building that's being demolished as part of the development of the old American Stock Exchange Building. / 1 comment