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.
12 Tweets of Tribeca
Welcome to Tweebeca, where the elements will have their way with you and you better not be eating cookies. / 1 comment
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History of Tribeca Buildings
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
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