Plus: Walker's addition unveiled • Massage sale at Tribeca Spa of Tranquility • Andy Garcia • Beekman Tower loses the crane • Downtown Dance Factory
KGB Deals, which appears to work exactly like Groupon, is offering a deal at City Winery today: You can get a $45 worth of cheese, charcuterie, and wine (two glasses) for $20, and you can redeem anytime before March 1, 2011.
Tickets are on sale for the 16th-annual Taste of Tribeca—one of the major events in the neighborhood, benefitting P.S. 150 and P.S. 234, it's scheduled for May 15. The sooner you buy, the more you'll save! Plus: which restaurants have signed on so far. / 1 comment
Plus: News from or about Grown & Sewn, Torly Kid, Moomah, Warren 77, Tribeca Meet & Greet, Blue Coyote, Morimoto, Synagogue for the Arts, and more
Plus: Local winners in New York mag's Best of New York • Tribeca's top coffee, according to the NYT • Senator Squadron to the rescue! • A $12 million penthouse goes for closer to $8 million [tears of sympathy] • And more
This week's special on Blackboard Eats is for a free bottle of wine—make that a free bottle of one of four wines—at Thalassa. What do the wines in question retail for? Funny you should ask... / 1 comment
Plus: Franklin Cafe puts up a sign • Moomah and Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club enter the winner's circle • Pen Parentis hosts its monthly salon • A new hotel trumpets its WTC location • And more
Plus: Fountain Pen Hospital opens the Back Room • John and Yoko's Nutopia reappears in the NYT • Museums offer two-for-ones • Nicholas Cage is in a pickle (or vice versa, actually) • And more / 3 comments
Furniture sales • Cutest shirt in the 'hood? • Ballet-and-dinner deal • Glee Club, a new play • "Happiness Is" • Wellness in Nicaragua • Hudson Street streetscape • And more
Tribeca Film Festival aims big • Pepoline's former chef gets a NYT review • Retox made simple at Frankly Wines • Landmarc on TV • Group health counseling • Sandwich of the month (so far)
A lot of people have been wondering—I know, because they ask me—what’s happening at the former Franklin Station Café space at West Broadway at Franklin; workers have been spotted inside and out. Today, I asked the friendly young man working on the south side of the façade what was opening there, and he said, “Next […] / 1 comment
Leo's changes its name (and its menu) • Neighborhood Bar & Restaurant just a bar, for now • Current food obsession • What's on the calendar at Mysterious Bookshop and Barnes & Noble (Judy Collins singing kids' songs, for one thing)
Only 53 sq feet (so like, 5 x 10 ft space?) of retail on that prime corner? What a missed... — Reader on Reade / Demolition should start soon on the Tribeca Pharmacy building
What a shame I loved that Pharmacy Art Deco looking building. — sonia stock / Demolition should start soon on the Tribeca Pharmacy building
YES!!! — Bere / Nosy Neighbor: What restaurant is coming to the pavilion at Wagner Park?
What was that great pizza place that was next door? it was open for a few years. — Luigi / Restaurant and supper club under construction at Buddha-Bar space
Actually, bikers can cross the intersection when pedestrians get the "walk" sign. — Tribeca Citizen / The neighborhood’s camera infrastructure
Agree entirely. — Tribeca Citizen / Halting overnight work on the supertall jail on White Street
Great photos Linda and Arlo — Sardi Klein / Washington Market Park hosts the first of the Halloween festivities