In the News: New Staten Island Ferry to Stop in Battery Park City
Plus: The Joe's Pizza in FiDi should open next week; painting stolen off the wall of Team Gallery; paint-expert profile; Barthman Jewelers's new location is open; speed hump approved for outside high school.
Seen & Heard: More Closings at the Local Malls
Plus: The two-story topper on the three-story building on Walker; Google donated $90,000 to a local organization; "A dog named Robòt" art exhibit; when Tribeca and Battery Park City were young. / 6 comments
Seen & Heard: Park Place Demolition
Plus: Amusing rendering of 440 Washington; "Tribute in Light"–style memorial on the West Coast; new shows at Sapar Contemporary and Bortolami.
In the News: The Penthouse Collector
Plus: Opening forecast for Au Cheval restaurant; Italian soccer player buys at new FiDi tower; history of a White Street building.
Newsletter: Jan. 10
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In the News: Joe’s Pizza Is Opening in FiDi
Plus: "One of NYC's most underrated chefs" is now cooking in Tribeca; recent local thefts; no progress on a Lower Manhattan storm-resiliency plan. / 6 comments
Seen & Heard: A Starbucks Is Closing
Plus: "For lease" sign spotted in Kori's window; survey about the Brooklyn Bridge Esplanade north of Peck Slip; former Tribeca physician's art exhibit at National Exemplar; "Romeo and Juliet" from the point of view of a teenage girl.
Quiz: Dead Restaurants (Part 8)
"The street-art murals and tattoo photographs are presumably there to add edge—whether a huge close-up of someone’s navel piercing stimulates your appetite is another question." Last call for this series! Can you identify these 14 deceased restaurants? / 6 comments
In the News: Are Billboard Barges Illegal?
Plus: Community Board 1 would like local representation on memorial committee for victims of Hurricane Maria; who uses Battery Park City's parks and how?; Gitano Jungle Room opens tonight. / 1 comment
Seen & Heard: Kori’s Status Remains Unclear
Plus: Discussion of Regal Battery Park liquor license pushed to February; Century 21 now offers made-to-measure suits; Elizabeth Berger Plaza delayed; imminent demolition of big West Street building. / 2 comments
Three-Level Art Complex to Open on Franklin Place
Yet another art-related business is staking a claim in northeast Tribeca—and this one, NYA Gallery, will have its entrance on the one-block private street between White and Franklin. / 2 comments
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Robert Ripps book
History of Tribeca Buildings
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