Where do we start? Nam is closing, making room for a new restaurant. There's bar news (White & Church, the Duane Street one, another hotel rooftop bar). Something is going on at Megu, and a new restaurant is coming to Lispenard. Oh, and 403 Greenwich is back in play.
New Kid on the Block: Maxwell's • Valentine No. 10 • Damon Dash • New restaurants (and closed ones) • 200 Chambers retail news • New subway entrance • More
Bureaucracy triumphs again! Plus: Hope for neglected 12 Warren; lunch at Duane Reade, Korean kiosk; Deutsche Bank fire acquittal; Moran's and Wall Street Burger Shoppe closing; WFC mall closings; corporate support for Vesey crosswalk; hotel site sold; P.S. 234 preps for 9/11. / 2 comments
Plus: 177 Franklin hasn't sold after all; WTC-area real estate heating up; crack in 3WTC crane; tourists visiting Dominique Strauss-Kahn's rental; Cortlandt subway station update; FiDi department store?; tour-bus congestion; Matsugen; Sept. 11 mural. / 4 comments
Plus: Thalassa's "meze lounge"; hostel with a catch; the Wooly; a Duane Reade that looks "like a high-end department store" coming to FiDi. Update: Added info about "Project Runway" taping. / 2 comments
A look at the new shops, restaurants, and services coming to the streets below Franklin—including fresh updates on Sarabeth's (delayed again), Prime Essentials, and Jung Sik. UPDATE 3/29: Added photo of Brushstroke sign. UPDATE 3/31: Brushstroke opening date.
Looking for clues in the CB1 committee agendas for March: Is that a bar or restaurant coming to Duane? Where is Johnny Rockets going to be? / 1 comment
New kid on the block: Mrs. Cupcake • From Montreal to Tribeca • 9/11 Memorial congestion • Borders closing • Free coffee next week • New beerhouse • What's up this weekend • More
What's in the works for Tribeca in the coming months (knock wood). I encourage everyone to read this if only so you'll know what I'm quacking about! UPDATED 1/9 with info on Crewcuts, Color Me Mine, Agatha Ruiz de la Parada, Yorganic, and Dans le Noir? UPDATED 1/10 with Boji opening info. UPDATED 1/11 with jazz bar name, opening estimate. UPDATED 1/12 with a forecast for Sarabeth's. UPDATED 1/19 with info about Prime Essentials drugstore. / 6 comments
You may have noticed that yesterday's newsletter had no links back to TribecaCitizen.com. I was certainly surprised, and I assumed the site had been hacked. The good news? The site wasn't hacked. The bad news? I simply forgot to add the links. Let's try it again....
Updates on Bouley's Japanese restaurant, the café coming to Hudson and Thomas, and Hudson construction • Gift guide for much of northern Tribeca • What's up this week • Ilegal Mescal • Sales and deals • 71 Laight • More
Plus: 9/11 health bill delayed by Senate Republicans; longtime watch repairman; 77 Reade; Access Theater; Trump Soho; Will Smith; which restaurant is a "forgettable lay"?
Different things can be true at the same time. Not happy with the current mayor on multiple levels. Not happy... — SLT / Voting starts next Saturday, October 26
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This article has a good explanation of Prop 1, including the hard right’s effort to stir up its followers to... — SW / Voting starts next Saturday, October 26
We do not have an official language in the United States. (Also, whomever.) — malcolm / Voting starts next Saturday, October 26
Obviously, I meant vote here. — Sherri Rosen / Voting starts next Saturday, October 26
If you come to this country and are given the Constitutional right to vote for whoever you want to, you... — Sherri Rosen / Voting starts next Saturday, October 26
Congratulations to this fantastic team! So glad they got their parade, and now they'll be immortalized with their granite plaque... — malcolm / New York Liberty takes over Broadway for the day