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.
Real Estate Sales Report
Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were "recorded" by the city in the past seven days (ending 10/27/12)—the sales may have taken place earlier.
Seen & Heard: Drybar Delayed
Plus: The Starbucks in the World Financial Center is staying open for a while longer; 165 Church update; medlars and pickles; Nassau construction finished; want to invest in a new Tribeca restaurant? / 1 comment
In the News: More on Cortlandt Way
Plus: New York Times reviews Cómodo; downtown outpost for the National Archives; another fast food option opens in FiDi. / 1 comment
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