Newsletter: Mar. 7
What's new in Battery Park (a lot, actually!) • An update on Greenwich South • 12 Tweets of Tribeca • WFC restaurants • Stuyvesant stupidity • What's up this week • Tiny's • More
What’s Up This Week
Puppets, write-your-own obits, a Cuban chanteuse, and Joyce Carol Oates are just a few of the highlights on this week’s agenda.
Seen & Heard: Pizza Joint Closing?
Plus: Salaam Bombay deal; upcoming shopping mixer; cool art via Let There Be Neon; wine dinner; yarn art. / 2 comments
In the News: New Ferries
Plus: Tom Duane on why we need a bus garage; Trinity wooing Pearson to Hudson Square; Save the Staircase; House of Relief hospital; Skylofts on sale; Taco Tuesday; real estate marketing; Michael Stipe.
Seen & Heard: Strawberry Closing
Plus: Deal at Cowgirl Sea-Horse (again); Project No. 8's online sample sale; dates for the Tribeca Film Festival's free movies at the World Financial Center plaza; clay imprints of baby hands.
Photo Safari: Brooklyn Burns
This week: photos taken on Church, Broadway, River Terrace, Greenwich, Franklin Place (or maybe it was Cortlandt Alley?), and Beekman.
In the News: Tiny’s
Plus: Update on racist Stuyvesant students; 1 Rector Park; free beer; gay conference; too many events in BPC?; guide to pre-K registration.
Where in Tribeca…?
Know where this was shot? Say so in the comments. (Update: We have a winner!) / 3 comments
What’s New in Battery Park
The funky stuff sprouting at Battery Park includes the pinwheel-shaped Dutch Pavilion (opening in two months), a cool relief map of 1660 New Amsterdam, and a sexy bench. Too bad two trees had to be cut down, though, to make room for the carousel. / 4 comments
Seen & Heard: WFC Restaurants
Updates on Caravelli's Pizzeria and Ed's Lobster Bar cart. Plus: Deals for spa treatments, margaritas, and Tex-Mex food; two enthusiasms (one a lunch spot and the other a cookie).
Greenwich South: An Update
Trinity Wall Street's new community center, two restaurants coming to south of the World Trade Center, and the building that's being demolished as part of the development of the old American Stock Exchange Building. / 1 comment
In the News: Stuyvesant Stupidity
Make that alleged Stuyvesant stupidity. Plus: BPC security outrage; smoking outdoors in BPC; helping Finn Square; the Hideaway; big families.
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Ran into and had a chance to meet and chat with Brad outside Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope last... — malcolm / Early voting has begun
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This obsession with “cracking down on crime” when it’s the lowest it has been in recorded history is troubling. If... — John Gallagher / Early voting has begun
On behalf of every kid who went to Washington Market and PS234, thank you for everything, Madeline, and the entire... — JW / Duane Park Patisserie will close on June 14
High rents. Small residential population. Little sidewalk traffic. More, better and cheaper options south and west. — Manhattanmommie / Nish Nush has closed to make way for a new building
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Thank you. So which of these will actually crack down on crime and improve quality of life in the city?... — Marcus / Early voting has begun