Plus: Spa and salon deals; pop-up beauty-product shop; a neighborhood restaurant would like your help; want to be on the radio?
Expanding into Soho. Plus: Weather Up unfinished?; Gymboree Play & Music discount; Hanukkah party; Room artist event; Khushi sale.
Plus: Park51 info sessions; craft lessons; meeting about off-leash dogs in Battery Park; Tribeca Language deal; gingerbread house workshops; discount at the Flea.
The 2010 Canstruction awards ceremony was held Monday night: Twenty-five engineering and architecture firms competed in categories such as "Best Use of Label," "Structural Integrity," and "Best Overall."
Plus: Titanic Park; Moomah and Mom Filter party; Mysterious Bookshop Christmas book; guitarist Robert Fripp; Philadelphia cream cheese.
Plus: "Tiny Furniture" review; young feminists at 92YTribeca; vacant FiDi building comes to life; new school by the Seaport.
"Fire in My Heart," a new exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, recounts the life of Hannah Senesh, who was born in Budapest in 1921 and was executed by firing squad 23 years later.
Plus: TenOverTen salon delayed; Steven Alan sample sale details; Tribeca Clayworks open house; discount on kids' theater; winter fruit CSA.
The buzzy film "Tiny Furniture" opens tomorrow; its writer-director-star is from Tribeca, and most of it was shot here. I chatted with the producer about the experience.
This Saturday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., a bunch of Tribeca's galleries are staying open later to encourage folks just like you to take a spin around and check out the art. / 1 comment
Plus: WTC memorial fountains; Target and Wal-Mart said to be poking around downtown for smaller stores; the Harrison (a recipe, too); Stuzzicheria; No Wave.
Plus: Transit; Trinity televised singalong; Marc Forgione and Marco Canora, finalists; Quincy Jones; candy drive; RHX closes.
Vornado was not involved in building the original 3 buildings, they bought an interest in them much later. — Reademan / Plans for new tower at Independence Plaza have begun
There is parking -- the same that exists there now, however. And see this post on height.... — Tribeca Citizen / Plans for new tower at Independence Plaza have begun
Gunbae!! https://www.gunbaetribeca.com/ — Tribeca Citizen / New plans afoot for the Sarabeth’s corner
Vornado has built 3 of the most ugly and brutalist buildings in the city. They are not great to live... — Will / Plans for new tower at Independence Plaza have begun
I vote to regulate this person out of Tribeca for his comments. What a racist comment. The last thing we... — Italian / New plans afoot for the Sarabeth’s corner
Terrible for the neighborhood. Too tall, ugly does not add anything to Tribeca just more congestion and people. It will... — GB / Plans for new tower at Independence Plaza have begun
(Pam's coverage of development issues is so amazing.) I choose to focus on the positive: 976 new homes, in a... — Komanoff / Plans for new tower at Independence Plaza have begun