Newsletter: Dec. 6
First Impressions: Tribeca Canvas • First Impressions: Nish Nush • Tribeca Then & Now #2 • Il Mattone and Tre Sorelle • Asphalt Green Blocked Again • WFC Closures • More
Seen & Heard: New Bar on Murray
(That's not it pictured.) Plus: Ice rink pushed back again; Tribeca Canvas got its hooch permit (update: not); community board application sessions; Palm lunch delivery; Pace dorm looking near done. / 2 comments
In the News: Community Board 1 Is Blocking Asphalt Green Again
Plus: Damage to the ball fields, Pier A, and Asphalt Green; Russell Crowe is stinking up the Greenwich Hotel; more on El Vez Mexican restaurant; Marc Forgione moonlights; 67 Vestry. / 30 comments
If You’re Bored With Dinner It’s Your Own Fault
The Tribeca Citizen Restaurant Guide continues to be updated regularly. (To find it, just look for the blue logo.) These are the restaurants that have been added….
Seen & Heard: Il Mattone + Tre Sorelle
Plus: J and Z trains; helping Pier 25; Salty Paw moving to a new space; Watts boundaries. / 1 comment
In the News: World Financial Center Shops Closing
In this round: Banana Republic, Cosi, and Sunglass Hut. Plus: Real estate rebound; 88 Greenwich residents getting back in; FiDi post office still closed.
First Impressions: Tribeca Canvas
The food at Morimoto's new Tribeca Canvas is like a stoner's fantasy of around-the-world travel. The room is a different sort of trip. / 8 comments
Gifts That’ll Have Kids Jumping for Joy
Whether your child loves to dance or simply play make-believe, Downtown Dance Factory's new Studio 4 shop has amazing Chanukah and Christmas presents and stocking stuffers for girls and boys. / Sponsored
First Impressions: Nish Nush
Tribeca finally gets a falafel restaurant that doesn't look like it belongs in a bus station. / 12 comments
In the News: Sandy Downturn?
Plus: Pet store hurt by storm; BPC ball fields update; R train semi-revived; tourism drought; Ed Burns wants a footbridge. / 3 comments
Seen & Heard: Openings and Reopenings
Cricketer's Arms and Liberty View ice rink slated to open this week. Plus: Mark Joseph reopened; a rumored new spot for Bread Tribeca; John Turturro film shooting here; John Bartlett sale.
Tribeca Then and Now #2
The second batch of now-vs.-the-80s photos includes Staple, Harrison, Jay, and Hudson. / 3 comments
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Lovely and well deserved -- keep up the good work, Adger! — John Willenbecher / Catching up with Adger Cowans on his 90th birthday
FIDI is ringed along the coastline by terrific green space; has green pockets like Bowling Green, the Elevated Acre, City... — Manhattanmommie / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
I do wonder about all of the new residences going into FiDi given there is virtually no green space, very... — Heide Fasnacht / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
Zucker's is still my go to bagel source! — Robert Ripps / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
Shinola had a cafe in the front when it opened, but then the cafe part closed, like, 10 years ago.... — PGCNYC / Seen & Heard: Drip coffee at Shinola
Similar background, the same thought. Saddens me a bit. I haven't tried the Utopia Bagels shop on 34th, which may... — Mulciber / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street
The best non-bagel shop bagel is Starbucks. I remember Florence when I worked down the block from 51st Street. Loved... — Sherri Rosen / Bagel Wars: Ess-a-Bagel coming to Murray Street