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Inside Pier A: The First Floor
The Battery Park City Authority invited the local press to check out Pier A, the old building-on-a-pier just west of Battery Park. It was magical visit: I'm sure it'll be beautiful when completed, but the romantic in me loved looking at the layers of history. / 3 comments
A Peek at TriBeCafe
TriBeCafe is scheduled to open tomorrow, Feb. 9, in the old Tokyo Bar space at 277 Church (White/Franklin). It’s from the team behind Greenwich Grill, according to the website, the menu will be “Tokyo Casual Cuisine.” Not sure what that means? Have a look at the menu. But be prepared for sticker shock—and I mean that […]
Newsletter: Feb. 8
A neighborhood fixture closes • Is a semi-celebrity opening a bar? • Hot water on Warren Street • Chanterelle sells everything • And much more
A Card-Carrying Tightwad
I like a deal: In recent weeks, I've posted about Blackboard Eats and Groupon, two services that appeal to the miser in me. But there's one kind of deal I'm on the fence about—loyalty cards.
Roundup: Guy in a Bar
Is a famous ex-husband opening a pub in Tribeca? • Contemporary art at the Museum of Chinese in America • Pen Parentis salon • Skinny Bitch at Barnes & Noble
Roundup: Caviar Sale
"Huge sale" at PB & Caviar • Museum of Chinese in America gears up for the Lunar New Year • Pearl Paint appears to be on the ropes (and the frame store is kaput) • Real estate drama
A Piece of Chanterelle
The New York Times’s Diner’s Journal blog has a nice look at the exhibit of Chanterelle menus that opens today at Kill Devil Hill. I was prepped to go, but Greenpoint on a semi-snowy, 25-degree day? Happily, the menus are also available at chanterellestore.com; unhappily, the photo quality leaves something to be desired. More than […]
For Parents Who Write (and Vice Versa)
Pen Parentis co-founder M.M. De Voe explains why writers with kids need their own community, how the group chooses who does readings at the salon, and what the biggest misconception with Pen Parentis is. / 2 comments
Roundup: Saving Face
Discounts via Facebook • Garbage garage • Independence Plaza • Major real-estate sale • Chambers Street construction update • Dungeons & Dragons obsessives
Brick Behaving Badly?
These posters around southern Tribeca rang an alarm with me, because I've sat through enough CB1 Tribeca committee meetings to pretty much know that Brick, the restaurant at 22 Warren, is heading for trouble. Four DJs? On a Thursday? On a residential street? / 1 comment
Newsletter: Feb. 5
From soup to nuts • Tribeca® quest • Bye-bye green benches • Bike store on Reade • Damon Dash's gallery • Deals • Tribeca ax company • Much more
This Weekend’s Movies
All in all, this week is a fairly disturbing lineup of new releases: death in Denmark, gunplay in France, bleakness in Britain—and that's not even including Dear John. So go see 2009's best while they're still in theaters! What else are you going to do on a cold and maybe snowy weekend?