12 Tweets of Tribeca
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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
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History of Tribeca Buildings
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
Glad to read the clarifying comment by Judy Epstein Gage, and glad to hear David Gage will be staying in... — Marcus / Finlay + Gage has left the neighborhood
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