But for how long? (Update: No bells today.) Plus: A better pic of 1 World Trade Center's base lit up; teddy bear sculpture extended; Greenwich façade unveiled; Drill Fitness opening date; Italian dinner party. / 6 comments
Plus: Return of the Winter Garden light show; Tribeca pioneer Joseph Bilger's paintings of 1WTC; new newsstand tenant; "Sheila the Great"; Spring Street Salt Shed progress; Hudson Street pizzeria; 1WTC surprise. / 3 comments
An entertaining new book celebrates the much-loved music club and activist hangout by collecting nine years' of Wetlands performance calendars and other memorabilia. / 10 comments
Plus: Peck Slip School brouhaha escalates; new music club being "hosted" at Caviarteria; looking for Zelda photos; 2 N. Moore mansion back on the market. / 1 comment
Plus: White Street launches brunch; Bogardus Garden's Harvest Festival; kooky creatures on exhibit; liquor store promotes Hong Kong democracy.
We can expect "paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, decorative and ceremonial objects, including selections of Judaica, books and manuscripts."
Plus: Celebrating Thelonius Monk in the Winter Garden; free admission night at the 9/11 Museum; Lilac Preservation Project fundraiser. / 1 comment
Not long after Tribeca resident Marlon Moskowitz took up photography, she began focusing on portraits of pedestrians, often in Soho and Tribeca. A show of her work opens on Saturday.
Plus: Patching cobblestoned streets with asphalt; Robert Janz street-art collages; Elle Decor book.
"This appeared today in the window of the old Lady Liberty souvenir shop on Broadway, next door to Western Spirit. Any idea what it is?" —R. / 1 comment
Plus: Million-dollar parking space; new show at No Romance Galleries; IPN fire cause?; no guesses yet for "Where in Tribeca...?"
Plus: "The most stylish man in high tech"; Floyd Cardoz on cooking for President Obama; Manhattan's only boarding school; necklace ripped off of neck; Tory Burch to open store in local mall; more. / 1 comment
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