In the News: The Compleat Sculptor Is Moving to Chelsea
Plus: Best Market's owner on the store's closing; recent muggings and thefts; big playpen bar opens in FiDi; that annoying ad barge and similar signage at Brookfield Place. / 2 comments
New Kid on the Block: Kataoka
All of the jewelry is made to order in Japan, with a four-to-six-week lead time. / 2 comments
Newsletter: Nov. 1
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Seen & Heard: Independence Plaza’s Statement About Best Market
Plus: Street closure for a private party; actors' union bake sale to protest Tribeca ad agency; Soho salon hosting a talk about Jane Freeman's miniatures; Preschool of Sciences update; a cautionary tale. / 17 comments
Seen & Heard: Make a Little Good Happen
Plus: New toy store, Starbucks, and benches at the World Trade Center mall; Laughing Man staff pays tribute to Hugh Jackman; much-needed traffic island installed; painting exhibit. / 10 comments
In the News: CB1 Voted Against Honoring Cop Killed in Iraq
Plus: Duane Street rooftop addition; praise for the Palm and Grandaisy; updates on four Park Row buildings; the annoying ad barge; Google considering West Street lease; Tribeca-based skincare line. / 6 comments
Best Market Has Closed
Now that Independence Plaza's owners have declined to renew the lease for a school and a supermarket, perhaps they'll tell us what exactly they have planned for the strip. / 56 comments
Seen & Heard: Smorgasburg Will Open in Lower Manhattan
Plus: Cookbook by the chef of Estela and Café Altro Paradiso; cheap fence around 111 Murray; textile art; Pen Parentis's November literary salon. / 1 comment
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Quiz: Dead Restaurants
Can you identify these 10 deceased restaurants, as once described in the Tribeca Citizen Restaurant Guide? / 12 comments
Seen & Heard: Remembering a Founder of Puffy’s
Plus: A peek inside the bar under construction on Worth Street; Mmuseumm exhibit is now a book; eighth shoot in seven-day period; Burger King's Halloween special.
In the News: More Chibeca Restaurants and Bars
Plus: A Thanksgiving menu by Frenchette; new renderings for 77 Greenwich (which will have a school in the base); the exquisite lobby in the AT&T Long Distance Building; Gucci to open art-and-photography bookstore in Soho.
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