New Kid on the Block: Rosie Pope
"Mompreneur" Rosie Pope has opened her Tribeca boutique. The shop is a sort of homecoming for the TV personality, as she used to live at Hudson and Reade.
Newsletter: Dec. 17
First Impressions: Bikini Bar • Marc Forgione's Laotian Restaurant • Aminah et Les Amis • First Impressions: Benares • New Wine Bar • New Sake Bar • More
Seen & Heard: New Sake Bar
Plus: Donations for single parents and their kids; looking for shopdogs and shopcats; more great photos of parts of the 1 World Trade Center spire making its way down Greenwich. / 1 comment
In the News: The Dead Rabbit
The soon-to-open pub in FiDi looks promising. Plus: Pace planning a 34-story dorm; Hudson River Park, still hurting; parks officer arrested for theft; man rescued from subway tracks; Seaport Museum reopening postponed. / 1 comment
Welcome to TweeBeCa: Special Celebrity Edition!
All good New Yorkers know they’re not supposed to talk to celebrities, but that doesn’t mean they can’t tweet about spotting them out and about. Or hoping to, anyway. Plus: Two Tribeca tweets from celebs.
Real Estate Sales Report
Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were "recorded" by the city in the past seven days (ending 12/15/12)—the sales may have taken place earlier.
Seen & Heard: New Wine Bar
Plus: Brooklyn Bridge closures start up again; what's coming to the old Bon Chon Chicken space; new pasta restaurant; can anyone help Mike?
First Impressions: Bikini Bar
The title of Coolest, Cutest Café in Tribeca can safely be handed over to Bikini Bar, newly opened on Duane. / 7 comments
First Impressions: Benares
I had enjoyed the lunch special at Benares last week and was mulling going back before writing about it when Suzanne filed an in-depth report as a comment in the Restaurant Guide. She clearly knows more about Indian food than I do, so I'm handing over the reins. / 2 comments
In the News: Capsouto Frères
Plus: Another 7-Eleven; Holly Hunter drops out; SantaCon bypassing downtown; west Soho air rights purchase.
Seen & Heard: Federal Plaza Gets Classy
Plus: 58 Reade's facelift; "restricted parking" signs on Greenwich; Alex Katz prints for sale; Baba Ghanouge expanding to FiDi. / 1 comment
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History of Tribeca Buildings
I grew up in a neighborhood with basement bagel, bakeries, long, narrow, bagel, ovens, bagelmeister’s, who really knew their craft.... — A. / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
In our house the cart bagels are what we call "cake bagels", barely 1 step up from Lender's frozen bagels.... — Nicole Vianna / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Unfortunately this is true about virtually every public works project in the city. Take a walk around all of the... — Reademan / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City
This bagel Baedeker doesn't even include the ubiquitous food carts that vend breakfast essentials, including - say it - bagels.... — Gary / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Don’t ask me how I have this connection, but I’ve spoken to the construction manager 1:1 before (he didn't know... — Upset BPC Resident / A progress report on the work in north Battery Park City
Thank you for the article about the move of our primary retail and repair business, Finlay and Gage, from Tribeca... — Judy Epstein Gage / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood
True North Tribeca! https://www.instagram.com/truenorthtribeca — James Bogardus / North Bar is closing for the summer — and will reopen as something new