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.
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
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
Garbage Garage appeal • Kurt Gutenbrunner's lair • Sales on laser hair removal and lip scrubs • Terror trial protest • Skating, Bollywood-style • Blankets, nuts, and more
The New York City Restaurant Week Truck is parked outside Whole Foods, on Greenwich, for two days of selling soup. Today’s options are butternut squash from Tribeca’s own Capsouto Frères and tomato garbanzo from Black Duck (on E. 28th St.). For $6, you get soup, some bread from Tomcat Bakery, and a Coke, Diet Coke, […]
Goodbye, curly green benches • Asphalt Green in Battery Park City • Austrian pancakes • No laughing at Corton • Standing up for anti-terror trial residents
Cosmopolitan Café's updated menu • Drama at the ice rink • How to make a Moomah diorama • Abortion at the Flea • The blues at TPAC • The next Tribeca Meet & Greet
Obama administration rethinking terror-trial site • Cosmopolitan Café menu • Rotary Club of Wall Street • Brushstroke opening date • Chanterelle's exquisite menus
It's official: Longstanding Church Street restaurant Arqua is closing after more than 20 years. / 1 comment
School zoning resolved • Terror trial: Bloomberg comes to his senses • Free crepes • African Burial Ground • Lauren Conrad, OMG • Wine events galore • And more
The plywood has come off of what used to be the Socrates diner space at Hudson and Franklin, across from Nobu, and while the windows are still papered up, I did catch a glimpse of the inside when a worker opened a door—and it looks like it’s going to be very pretty inside. I called […]
No more "acute care" at St. Vincent? • Governors Island/terror trial in the NYT • Julie Menin explores a woman's prerogative • Sheldon Silver likes 3R • Ugly Betty = ugly parking • TriBeCafe update
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