Newsletter: Feb. 5
Loft Peeping: Zak Profera • Art Fair on Pier 26 • New Art for Tribeca Park • Gourmet Garage Update • Plea from a Local Business Owner • Laughing Man Bench • More
Loft Peeping: Zak Profera
Domino featured the Tribeca one-bedroom of textile designer Zak Profera, who's not afraid to hang an upside-down floor lamp over his dining table. / 1 comment
Seen & Heard: Gourmet Garage Update
Plus: New information about Laight Street truck traffic; Laughing Man's sidewalk bench to actually involve taking over a parking space; Remix nightclub causing more trouble; Franklin Street loft in 1977. / 5 comments
Dear Fellow Tribecans…
Don't just live in this neighborhood, urges a local entrepreneur: Support the businesses that help make it special. / 7 comments
How Will You Celebrate Valentine’s Day?
The big day is next week—and on a Saturday, no less. Are you ready to show how much you care? / Sponsored
Tribeca Is Getting an Art Fair
On trend! "Art on Paper will be a new kind of art fair—a focused fair offering a medium as a conversational catalyst." / 3 comments
In the News: Sheldon Silver’s Ties to Courts Reportedly Under Investigation
Plus: Another snide aside about Tribeca by the New York Times; artist and filmmaker Larry Rivers; inside the new Residence Inn near the World Trade Center. / 2 comments
New Art for Tribeca Park
Also on February’s Community Board 1 agendas: A sidewalk bench in front of Laughing Man; Worth Street construction; new Malaysian restaurant; 101 Murray demolition; Brookfield Place restaurants; pay phones. / 3 comments
Newsletter: Feb. 2
NYC Elite Gymnastics Is Moving Here • 24 Leonard Rendering • Urban Archaeology Is Leaving • Tribeca Pointe Conversion? • 187 Franklin Renderings • Tribeca Deli • Equinox Brookfield Place • More
Seen & Heard: Battery Park City Rental Conversion Moving Forward?
Plus: Truck traffic on Laight Street; Tribeca Watch Repair has been seized; those big tents on Canal Street; Kate Pierson of the B-52's in concert. / 2 comments
In the News: Sweating With Your Neighbors
Plus: Vogue celebrates Lower Manhattan; Chambers Street power outage screws up subway service; checking in on Peck Slip School.
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History of Tribeca Buildings
"“The name “Tribeca” was coined in the early 1970s and originally applied to the narrower area bounded by Broadway and... — S.S. / 312-322 Canal will be redeveloped as residential
This city, which used to be a city of neighborhoods, will soon turn into a city of just oversized apartment... — Sherri Rosen / Plans moving forward for northeast corner of Canal and Broadway
This city, which lost its neighborhood and community feel decades ago, will be nothing but oversized apartment buildings and bike... — Sherri Rosen / Plans moving forward for northeast corner of Canal and Broadway
I didn't call you MAGA. I said that blue-state NIMBYism like yours furthers the MAGA agenda. How? By driving up... — Komanoff / Plans moving forward for northeast corner of Canal and Broadway
thanks for this terrific info! — Mdeline Lanciani / 54 Laight Street in the Tribeca North Historic District is for sale
I hope this doesn't get built. Commenter GB said it best; Terrible for the neighborhood. Too tall, ugly does not... — jay / Plans for new tower at Independence Plaza have begun
Ironic that anyone would say those areas are not "real" Tribeca, since the original "Triangle" of Tri-beca is right there.... — Marcus / 312-322 Canal will be redeveloped as residential