Seen & Heard: New Health Food Store?
Plus: New Hebrew school; Blue Spoon broken into; nutritionist talk; trans.LUXE opening; Babesta world-record attempt; Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra benefit. / 1 comment
Gym Dandy
I got a tour of Tribeca Health & Fitness, the good-value gym on Chambers. It's so not the dodgy place it used to be. / 2 comments
In the News: Staircase Drama
Plus: Fiterman Hall update; 88 Pine newsstand kiboshed; a covetable loft and a "mancave"; residential urinals; the new bar under Plein Sud.
Newsletter: Oct. 4
New Kid on the Block: Maserati of Manhattan • Clever, cute, and creepy Halloween crafts • September refresher • Calendar of events • Mehtaphor opening • Kardashians • New salon • More
Seen & Heard: RHX Cries Wolf
Plus: Donation-based dance classes; TriBattery Pops is looking for new blood; and a new pedicure at Sweet Lily.
In the News: Mehtaphor Menu
Plus: Kardashians to move into a Tribeca hotel and film spin-off; artist Katy Martin; choreographer Carrie Ahern.
Calendar: Oct. 3–31
This week in and around Tribeca: Barbara Corcoran; Howard Dean; David Baldacci, Sandra Brown, and Harlan Coben; Antonya Nelson; Drunken Dragon Night; Asian-American singer-songwriters; new Soho Photo show; "The Black Cat" (1934); Rebecca Moses; PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-erian; WFC restaurant showcase; Gotham Screen Film Festival; more.
September Refresher
In case you missed it, here's what happened in Tribeca last month....
Seen & Heard: TAMA Liquidation
Plus: Loft Tour tickets; new vendor at Greenmarket; yoga deal; One Medical Group.
Homemade Halloween
A cupcake graveyard, a vampire-bite necklace, creepy crudités: Former Tribecan Alicia Kachmar has a new book, "Witch Craft," that's full of ways to make Halloween even more fun.
Foto Friday
This week: photos taken on Broadway, Church, Chambers, and Reade, as well as in City Hall Park.
In the News: Mehtaphor Opening
Plus: 7-9 Harrison to be sold; more Park51 renderings and membership details; "Office Hours" review; Rector Square; Puffy's bartender; 20x24 Polaroid camera; artist Dan Colen.
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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