Roundup: Green Screen
CB1 Tribeca agenda • Tribeca Film Festival opening night • Soho Rep scores • Real-estate winners • Pen Parentis fellowship • And more
Franklin, My Dear
A lot of people have been wondering—I know, because they ask me—what’s happening at the former Franklin Station Café space at West Broadway at Franklin; workers have been spotted inside and out. Today, I asked the friendly young man working on the south side of the façade what was opening there, and he said, “Next […] / 1 comment
Made in Tribeca #1: Khushi
“What goes on your body goes into your body,” says Nicki Francis, stirring a saucepan filled with what looks like golden goo. I had invited myself to her Hudson Street home so I could see firsthand how she goes about making her Khushi line of spa products. / 3 comments
Newsletter: Mar. 1
Krapp Kamera Kontest • Interview with a "Theatre Monkey" • No hibernating! • Barzinho • Judy Collins and Sandra Bernhard • And much more
Roundup: Su Casa
Leo's changes its name (and its menu) • Neighborhood Bar & Restaurant just a bar, for now • Current food obsession • What's on the calendar at Mysterious Bookshop and Barnes & Noble (Judy Collins singing kids' songs, for one thing)
Kraptastic!
Based on the idea that it's great photographers who make exceptional photography, and not their equipment, Soho Photo's Krappy Kamera show has been an annual event since 1992, after a bunch of photographers were chatting about how "they preferred using their junky cameras to their high-end ones" and photographer Sandra Carrion suggested mounting an exhibit on the theme. / 1 comment
Roundup: Shoot!
Swag bags for Tribeca kids • Let There Be Neon • Drunk David Hasselhoff • Artisan Lofts • And more
What’s Shakin’?
Duane Park was always a refuge from noisy restaurants, so it was somewhere near the end of the list of places I expected to see a pastie (unless one of the waiters, George, was feeling frisky). But these clips make me think I need to stay up later....
Roundup: Asking for Trouble
Massage sale • Sandra Bernhard • Capsouto Park? • Manhattan Youth vs. P.S. 234 • Riverhouse drama • Hudson River Park • Movie night at Saluggi's • Gymboree deals
No Hibernating!
If this weather saps your initiative to exercise, resist the temptation to spend the next month curled up on the sofa with these five simple tips. Plus: Where to get your heart racing in Tribeca.
Newsletter: Feb. 26
Two TCQ&As • Inside Tribeca's grooviest building • Brick responds • Sales at Intérieurs, Equinox, and PB & Caviar • Gummi Bears • And much more
This Weekend’s Movies
Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan in—no way!—a buddy movie about cops. Plus: A French prison film, a documentary about the Barnes Foundation, and Jack Nicholson before he went to seed.
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Gosh, I hope Starbucks isn’t upset that workers are actively unionizing and have successfully unionized multiple locations across New York... — Justin / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
Hopefully this will have some benefit for other businesses but I do have to say it was always packed. Very... — John Gallagher / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
I, for one, and so tired of graffiti. The art deco post office on Canal gets carefully scrubbed clean, only... — Marcus / Tribeca-branded graffiti on West Broadway
Ben If the area was pedestrianized, what would happen with emergency vehicles, Access a Ride, school buses, trash pick-up? The... — Lisa / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
I'm sorry to hear this news. My condolences to the family. I was a regular until 2007 when we moved... — Kevin Clarke / Jerry Walker, co-owner of Walker’s and The Ear Inn, has died
It's 3:45 and the line for pillows wraps from the park around on Reade and the end is only about... — N / Seen & Heard: 24-hour golf simulators in Hudson Square
This is a real shame. They had wonderful clothes and bought my daughter’s favorite clothes there when she was a... — John Gallagher / Koh’s Kids on Greenwich has closed