Anyone Have Power Yet?
POWER IS BACK IN TRIBECA! (But you might want to make sure your building has heat and/or hot water before you move back in....) / 65 comments
In the News: Blackout Photos
Plus: Hipsters don't want no truffles; rich-people problems; ways to help post-Sandy; a lawyer offers businesses assistance; volunteers helping stranded IPN tenants.
Seen & Heard: Whole Foods Is Open
Plus: Grim news from the Battery Conservancy and in the Seaport; World Financial Center and Century 21 open; another shot at Halloween; Benares restaurant; Jay-Z to the rescue. / 1 comment
Self-Improvement on Murray Street
Do you need help with your respiration, civility, and concentration? Baby, you're in luck: The DeRose Method is opening a studio in Tribeca. / 30 comments
Newsletter: Nov. 1
We've faced jihadist terrorists, unshowered anarchists, never-ending construction, anti-Islam bigots, a startling lack of school-capacity planning, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn's house arrest. We can handle this. / 2 comments
Seen & Heard: Downtown Community Center Flooding
Plus: Aamanns/Copenhagen opening delayed; Matt Bernson sample sale; "Boardwalk Empire" on Tribeca; T-shirts. / 1 comment
In the News: Parking Garage Tragedy
Plus: Baby born during the storm; Katie Holmes; Halloween parade; Seaport dining; Trinity Place department store; data-center central; Jason Binn; Battery turkey; FiDi nightclub, Ward III's Sandy cocktail; Tribeca walking tour report.
Sandy’s Aftermath
Here are a few updates that have come in, along with photos from during and after the storm. If you get power back, please comment on this post and include your address (or at least your block). / 9 comments
Newsletter: Oct. 29
Sandy Timeline • Tribeca in the 1980s • Bread Tribeca • Aamanns Opening Date • Drybar Delay • "Seaport" Signage • Cortlandt Way • More
Share Your Sandy
Send in your storm-related photos, videos, observations, and news, and I'll post them here. UPDATE: Photos are coming in.... UPDATE Tues: I can't update this but you can comment or go to twitter.com/tribecacitizen (you can see updates even if you don't have a Twitter account) / 56 comments
Sandy Evacuation Info
In times like this, I'll do what I can, but I encourage you to get your information from a news source such as the New York Times. In the meantime, here's the map of evaucation zones.
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History of Tribeca Buildings
I lived on Duane St 1973-76 Magical times.... RIchard Serra lived on Washington St. . Gaylyn and Ed Kerns lived... — Devrah Silverstein / Reflecting on Tribeca in the 1970s
Not a resident back then but hell yeah I remember 77 White Street, The Mudd Club until early morning and... — Gio / Tribeca in the 1980s
What a loss for the neighborhood! They will be missed! — Jennifer / Boomerang Toys will close at the end of the month
I don't dispute James Bogardus's extensive explanation. When I called cast iron architecture "avant garde," I was referring to the... — Gary / Sneak Peek: 14 White
love FDNY, thank you for the article. — kc / A holiday stroll around the neighborhood’s firehouses
Love this!!! Thank you FDNY! 🙏🏻🎄✨ — Katie Milo / A holiday stroll around the neighborhood’s firehouses
This is the kind of planning that has me very apprehensive about his time as mayor. Let's have a big... — K / Mamdani inauguration will close off Broadway on New Year’s Day