Newsletter: May 29
New pizza restaurant • Speakeasy in the works • Dominique Strauss-Kahn • Pig N' Whistle plans • Real-estate sales report • Sol LeWitt in City Hall Park • Street-fair ban • Aminah et les Amis • What's up this week • More
What’s Up This Week
New Amsterdam Market, Patrick Swayze, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, and Reese Witherspoon lost in a psychosexual wilderness are just a few of the highlights on this week’s agenda. (Or make that "next week's agenda"—I'm running this early for the holiday weekend.) / 1 comment
Your Weekly Real Estate Sales Report
Seven sales—five for over $3 million—were reported in the past week. / 2 comments
In the News: Street-Fair Ban
On weekdays, anyway. Plus: P.S. 234 overflow headed to Chinatown; Shake Shack BPC; new head for Hudson River Park Trust; smoking still OK in BPC?; real-estate optimism; River Lofts; Rector Square. / 4 comments
Photo Safari: Another One Escaped
This week: Photos taken on Leonard, Greenwich, Church, W. Broadway, Canal, and Park Place.
On the Agendas
A likely speakeasy, a restaurant at the Pig N' Whistle space, a City Hall fuel cell, a replacement for Carmine's, the Peck Slip school, and more: What CB1 committees will be discussing in June.
Where in Tribeca…?
Know where this was shot? Say so in the comments. Update: We have a winner*! / 6 comments
I’m Hungry Just Thinking About It
A popular Vermont-based brand of pizza restaurants is in talks to open at the southwest corner of Hudson and Canal.
Seen & Heard: Pig N’ Whistle
Something's coming. Plus: Greenmarket news; 57Reade; who's putting flowers at the Finn Square sculpture?
Sol Shines
Even one of the cinder-block sculptures in City Hall Park's Sol LeWitt exhibit looks good. / 1 comment
New Kid on the Block: Aminah et les Amis
Having spent four years in the World Financial Center, kids' boutique Aminah et les Amis wanted more weekend traffic, so it moved to Warren Street. Plus: free popcorn!
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History of Tribeca Buildings
Does anyone have the count of trees in the Battery and Battery Park City that have been felled for the... — Heide Fasnacht / The distance we’ve come in 25 years
I found this article by googling "New York drone show fake?" It's really a very weird situation. These drone shows... — M / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
Very curious. Were news outlets informed and kept quiet or were they not informed? It's also hard to find what... — Vickery Eckhoff / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
It evidently was an art project- I wish that I had seen it!!! — Merle Temkin / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
It IS sort of weird, but remember that drone shows are often constructed so you can only make out the... — J / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
Thanks for covering this. It's so very strange! — malcolm / Crowd Sourcing: Who saw the Twin Towers drone show on Wednesday night?
Amazing photo of Tribute in Light! — SW / Seen & Heard: Kyuramen is open on Gold