Newsletter: Jan. 21
Tribeca pronunciation guide • TCQ&A: Alycea Ungaro • New-build hotel • New drugstore • Twelve tweets • East River Park • Palm Tribeca deal (and contest) • Bogardus Mansion • Much more
What’s Up This Weekend
Adam Sandler, Chinatown parade prep, and a tough-ass Bill Cosby are just a few of the highlights on this weekend’s agenda.
In the News: Bogardus Mansion
Plus: Katrina Vonnegut at RH Gallery; Tribeca Townhomes penthouse; huge new Asian restaurant planned for Canal Street; Millennium High School; No. 22 Renwick; Adeline Adeline; BPCer doing good in India; RBC's coffee maven; hating on fireplaces; affordable housing; James McCune Smith; Kardashians. / 2 comments
Try-Beck-Uh
I bet you're pronouncing at least one Tribeca business's name incorrectly. (I was.) / 14 comments
Seen & Heard: New Drugstore
Plus: Deals at Bubble Lounge, Papatzul; Landmarc wine dinners; Lolë; the best thing since sliced bread.
Twelve Tweets of Tribeca
Fistfights! Celebrities! Free Champagne! That's life in Tweebeca for you. / 1 comment
In the News: East River Park
Plus: WTC's massive police presence; I.S. 289 after-school budget crisis; last day to support keeping Millennium High School for downtowners; Mehtaphor; the Ward III guys' remake of a classic; Landmarc's spaghetti carbonara.
Seen & Heard: Palm Tribeca Deal
A cornucopia of restaurant-related items today: More on Jung Sik Dang (coming to the Chanterelle space), a deal on Battery Gardens, and how a plate of nachos totally beat me. / 1 comment
In the News: New-Build Hotel
Plus: Martha Stewart's daughter cuts the price of her apartment again; "smokin' hot" shoemaker; New York Downtown Hospital upgrades; Alycea Ungaro in the New York Times Magazine.
TCQ&A: “I Want Bouley Bakery Back”
Fitness guru Alycea Ungaro of Real Pilates on where her husband got mercury poisoning, how she keeps her kids occupied, and the "little castle" in Tribeca that she'd love to own. / 1 comment
Newsletter: Jan. 18
One World Trade Center • Kosher conveyor-belt sushi restaurant • Hudson Street construction • Reversing Beach Street • Dining outside Tribeca • Lotus Salon replacement • What's up this week • Cobblestoning Duane • More
What’s Up This Week
Dueling cartoonists, Brazilian drag artists, and a walk in a labyrinth are just a few of the highlights on this week’s agenda.
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I think you would feel differently if your private moments with your children were being surveilled and photographed. People shouldn't... — Fiona / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
Truly sad. Got our son's first "Tribeca Cool Kids" clothes there 15 years ago (on sale!) and they couldn't have... — Downtown Dad Again / Koh’s Kids on Greenwich has closed
The graffiti in question looks very similar to the same outside of Target (on the never-ending construction barriers) which questioned... — Downtown Dad Again / Tribeca-branded graffiti on West Broadway
Our apartment was inside the "frozen zone" and when we were finally able to return to it in mid-October, I... — Makes You Go Hmmmm.... / A documentary honors the work of the Sanitation Department after 9/11
I was shocked when I was walking around Tribeca. I've been living away, so coming back now and seeing so... — Van / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
Or make it a mall of counterfeiters, like a Needle Park or, better yet, the modern-day Essex Market of counterfeiting.... — James Bogardus / Tribeca-branded graffiti on West Broadway
The Starbucks on Chambers and W. Broadway is definitely popular and it's situated in a dream spot considering the subway... — Jslv / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow