Plus: Citigroup missed a chance to hide mechanicals; Over the Rhine in concert; World Cup events at 28 Liberty; "Ray Donovan" shoots; Morgenstern's sweatshirt. / 6 comments
Gentleman's Barber Spa of White Plains is opening here. "Barbering is truly a craft at this part-throwback, part-contemporary barbershop," raved Westchester magazine. / 8 comments
Plus: Understaffed prisons; another rave for La Mercerie; benefits for 9/11 rescue workers; Crunch's popular fitness instructor; River to River dance review; the wheat field that was in Battery Park City. / 2 comments
After 20 years at 177 Duane Street Real Pilates needed to find a new space. If only there was a location in the area ideally suited to a Pilates studio....
Plus: The entrance to 70 Vestry is unveiled; local businesses have founded the Tribeca Wellness Group; Amanda Freitag to cook at Landmarc pop-up dinner; Shelby Lynne at City Winery.
Plus: The Nobu Next Door space has an interested party, too; The Spot doggie daycare has been rebranded; New York Guitar Festival; help out this weekend at Washington Market Park; a new tipping interface on restaurant receipts.
Plus: Noted Tribeca café opens tomorrow; tickets for the Pier 17 concerts aren't cheap; Twenty First Gallery opens today; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's open studios; more on the gymnastics facility.
Paul Ruggeri Gymnastics promises "world class gymnastics instruction," along with "#fitness #handstands #ninja #tumbling #trampoline"—and, lest you think Ruggeri doesn't know the area, "#tribecamoms." / 1 comment
Plus: Blink Fitness is opening another FiDi gym; the Beach Street houses that John Ericsson lived in; Imagine Swimming will have a pool on the Upper West Side; local thefts, including one with a knife threat. / 3 comments
Once Yoga Shanti and Core Power Yoga debut, Tribeca will have eleven dedicated yoga studios. / 4 comments
Plus: Library to close for longer than a year; DanceBody found a permanent home; police meeting tonight; Bortolami show.
"We have three generations of clients," says Tom Kollar of Tortola Salon, which has been in the neighborhood for 35 years. "I've had boys as clients who I watched grow up, and I also do their parents and grandparents. And these are not young kids!" / 8 comments
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