This Weekend’s Movies
Invictus is "potent, intelligent filmmaking" (NYT) • "Like the speck of sand that seeds a pearl, it’s the tiny fleck of kitsch at the heart of A Single Man that makes it luminous and treasurable, despite its imperfections" (Variety)
2009 Buy-Local Gift Guide: Hudson
The shopping never ends: Highly giftable merch from Babylicious, Baker, Design Within Reach, Just Scandinavian, Abhaya, Shoofly, Moomah, Tribeca Issey Miyake, Pompanoosuc Mills, Tribeca MedSpa, and even Thom Browne.
News Roundup: Winter Garden Trouble?
Police activity at the Winter Garden Atrium • The Soda Shop fizzles out • Grimshaw & Partners leaving the 'hood • Texting while pushing a stroller • Ferry noise • And more
CB1 Tribeca Committee: The Unofficial Minutes
Small trucks allowed to come through the Holland Tunnel as of Jan. 3 • Biddy Early's making efforts to sober up • Details on the swanky new bar coming to the Grace space • Taste of Tribeca • Square Diner
Giving It a Whirl
I once watched whirling dervishes at Carnegie Hall, and found them entrancing—so when I saw a flyer about a "whirling workshop," I knew I had to try it. The idea of doing it myself seemed childlike in the best possible way, and very liberating.
News Roundup: Smile!
Photo opportunities for kids • Spa deals • Barzinho on W. Broadway • Egg by Susan Lazar sample sale • Inside Truffles • Canal Street crackdown
2009 Buy-Local Gift Guide: Lispenard, Walker, White, and Church
The economy is coming back, right? Buy your way into someone's heart with great stuff from Karkula, Kidville, Steven Sclaroff, Donzella, Sole Food, Let There Be Neon, and more.
Equinox Upgrades
Patrons of Equinox‘s non-Tribeca gyms may have been wondering when the Tribeca outpost will be getting Kiehl’s products in the locker rooms. (I know I have. I’m not particularly fussy in that way, but the stuff they have now is motel-y.) The Equinox site has said the partnership was “launching this fall,” with Amino Acid […]
News Roundup: Chili in Here
The New Yorker stops by Edward's for Skyline chili • A massive CD and record sale • The Bruce High Quality Foundation • More Tribeca® products
Collect Pond to Live Again
A tantalizing look at what's to come at Collect Pond Park, currently one of the grimmer public areas in Lower Manhattan. The redesign reclaims a sizable parking lot as parkland. / 2 comments
News Roundup: “Triburbia”?
A food-and-wine consultant dismisses the Tribeca dining scene • Lawsuit at 200 Chambers • Tribeca Grand penthouse • Chris Van Allsburg at B&N
2009 Buy-Local Gift Guide: Broadway, Canal, Jay, and Thomas
Must-haves—and possibly the kitschiest item in the entire neighborhood—from PB & Caviar, Western Spirit, Y.H.K. Department Store, World Journal Bookstore, and Pearl Paint
Left rectangle ads redesigned
History of Tribeca Buildings
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