What’s Up This Week
Scrappy soccer, parent scribes, Joyce Carol Oates, and the Tribeca halfway house are just a few of the highlights on this week’s agenda.
Second Impressions: Compose
So I went back to Compose the other night, this time for the 10-course tasting menu. / 7 comments
In the News: Nail Art
Plus: "Selling New York"; Richard Varick; Tribeca dandy; Theater Bar update; William Beaver House price cuts; BLT Bar & Grill.
Seen & Heard: Color Me Mine Reborn
Plus: Rumors of a restaurant's closing; another cupcake shop?; "Little Red Riding Hood"; Mehtaphor's vegetarian menu; Duane Street Hotel. / 1 comment
Photo Safari: The Truth About Cheese
This week: Photos taken on Warren, Chambers, Cortlandt Alley, and in Whole Foods. (I renamed "Foto Friday" because I couldn't bear to keep typing "foto.") / 1 comment
Guess Who’s Moving In…
You know the three-story brick building at Hudson and Thomas, where Paul Kohn Design used to be? A national chain has rented the Hudson-facing part of the ground floor. (I always thought a Banana Republic would be in home there, and I wasn't far off.) / 5 comments
In the News: 250 West Revived?
Plus: Battery Park to be freed of Statue of Liberty security?; water-main construction update; review of Soho Rep's new show; New York City Police Museum exhibit for kids; WTC workers win lottery; Frites 'N' Meats debate.
Where in Tribeca…?
Thanks to Barry Fidnick for sending this one in. Know where it is? Say so in the comments. [Update 1/11: You have officially been stumped.] / 2 comments
First Impressions: Emergency Medical Care
A comment about Emergency Medical Care, the new facility at 200 Chambers, came in last night, making me wonder whether anyone else had been there. If so, what did you think? / 4 comments
Seen & Heard: ROC Discount
Plus: Deals on Music for Aardvarks and swimming; free wine; Liberty Church launching weekly service; Tribeca Meet & Greet; new Holocaust website for students; Tribeca in Portugal.
In the News: Tribeca Grill
Plus: Downtown school drama; Angler's Club of New York; Andy Warhol battle; solving Canal Street; 75 Wall sales report; Fraunces Tavern; Robert Moses, the Musical.
Nosy Neighbor: 55 Warren
"I heard that 55 Warren is being turned into full-block (that means going to the other side, to 55 Murray!) condos with a windowed atrium at the center of each of the units. If so, that would be pretty cool. Do you know anything about it?" —Nichole W.









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