@Rohin: I know, right? Does he sell his name for $100K each time? Or do his PR folks float these to keep his name around when he has a movie coming out -- like he does now? — Erik Torkells on In the News: Corn Dogs and Shrimp Poppers

Erik, I notice that Leonardo Di Caprio always seems to be looking for a place to stay in Tribeca... And somehow his never ending quest for Penthouse space is always well publicized? hmmmm ;) — Rohin on In the News: Corn Dogs and Shrimp Poppers

went in to try the wines on Monday night.. the staff was more than friendly and even gave me a private tour of the space.. looking forward to going back with friends for dinner night .. beautifully done. — Victoria on New Kid on the Block: Terra

Looks very cute.. I'm going over with a friend later today to check it out :) — Ilona on New Kid on the Block: Terra

Stopped by Cullen Montgomery last weekend and was mesmerized! Its filled with so many unique vintage items! Will make you wish you had a New York City apartment large enough to fit it all!! definitely recommend stopping by this weekend! — alyssa demilio on Seen & Heard: Home Decor Pop-Up Shop

You are in top form Mister Smithers! And you didn't even have to insult any TriBeCa moms this time around!!! Very amusing. Thanksy for putting a smile on my early morning face. — Lisa on Banksy in Tribeca

For those who worry about changes at Mariachi's: don't. Alberto finally bought out his silent partner, so it's all hands-on ownership now. — Suzanne F on Seen & Heard: Church Publick Is Opening Tonight or Tomorrow

Briciola is a fabulous place, so I am VERY pleased about this news! — Loren on New Kid on the Block: Terra

You are all worried about attracting a bad crowd from the criminal court when you've got a non-stop parade of morons taking pictures of this Banksy crapsy. Where's the city or CB-1 and why aren't they demanding the building's owner clean it up? Staple Street is looking really bad these days. — Miriam on In the News: Take That, Banksy

I blame Bansky. bad placement for this piece. he should have thought ahead, there are thousands of dogs in this city. this's an odd place to paint anything, especially twin towers. — Louise on In the News: Take That, Banksy

Bigger idiots standing there and filming it and giving this woman anything but a smack in the head. It's still a picture of the Twin Towers. People are so moronic. You should be very proud of yourself Lady! i am repulsed by this photo on so many levels! — TribecaMom on In the News: Take That, Banksy

Idiot. I would be so embarrassed to photograph my dog pissing anywhere except off the curb, as if he did something meaningful. She is trying to reconcile in her head how this is thoughtful, but forgets that it is just a dog with no intent to make a statement tethered to an owner focused on capturing the meaningless pee as if it was important. Curb your dog lady. — cami on In the News: Take That, Banksy

Moonquake is the new ANNIE starring the girl from Southern Beast and Jamie Foxx. I heard that Cameron Diaz is playing Miss Hannigan! — Genevieve on Seen & Heard: Church Publick Is Opening Tonight or Tomorrow

@Annie same! will go there! — Noah on New Kid on the Block: Terra

@Jake I didn't know they had a new place - definitely going there ASAP! — Noah on New Kid on the Block: Terra

Little Gym is still under construction. Passed by today. Not sure why it's advertising being opened? Delays, perhaps? — N on In the News: Photos of 4 World Trade Center

Dear Banksy, please remove your graffiti, so it doesn't become a ridiculous 9/11 tourist attraction. Thanksy. — Jim Smithers on Banksy in Tribeca

I can't believe we wasted all of that money on the other 9/11 memorial. One can of black spray paint on a brick wall in an alleyway littered with pigeon poo is a proper memorial. Walking passed this evening, you can see that people have left flowers and lit candles in front of this "memorial." Seriously, what's wrong with people? Are people really that Tea Party dumb? — Jim Smithers on Banksy in Tribeca

Did you see the one he did where Bob Hope, George W. Bush, and John Wayne are smoking $100 bills and holding umbilical chords that lead to balloons filled with fighter jets? Awesome — jfrankp on Banksy in Tribeca

I was inside of 4 WTC and a few other areas of the construction site about a month ago. Some more photos here: https://plus.google.com/photos/106063758133458688393/albums/5910635332096112289 — alee on In the News: Photos of 4 World Trade Center

Agree on the epic marketing. — alee on Banksy in Tribeca

Every media outlet in the city is covering this. I find the art to be whatever, but the PR skills are impressive — Erik Torkells on Banksy in Tribeca

There goes the neighborhood, again. — alee on Banksy in Tribeca

This is going to be delicious. I love the food at Aria and it looks like the EXACT same menu. Good thing winter is coming because I may put on a few pounds from eating at this place. I wonder if they will have the same pre-fix at Aria. — H.H. on New Kid on the Block: Terra

We are dismayed by the scale and character of the building proposed for the 100 Franklin Street lot(s). A continuous curtain wall of glass running over 200 feet in length and six stories high is unprecedented in the Tribeca East Historic District and completely out-of-context with the neighboring buildings, all constructed of stone, cast iron and brick. Across the street and down the nearby blocks, the building facades are generally 20 to 60 feet wide at most (the one exception being the new Tribeca Grand Hotel). Just look across Church at the street front between White and Franklin on the east and see the visual variety, the real character of Tribeca. Atop the glass curtain wall is to be an aggressive, thrusting, angular black-glass encased penthouse, partly cantilevered outward rather than set back. From the drawings the penthouse looks like a Soviet-era Constructivist nightmare and, together with the grandiose glass curtain wall below, speaks only of the architect's hubris and arrogance. The architect has not even taken pains to make the roof top mechanicals other than rawly conspicuous. (At the CB1 meeting, the architect and developer acknowledged they had not been aware that the building at 13-19 White Street had been sliced back to allow for the subway and extension of 6th Avenue and that this building's east wall had originally been an interior wall: so much for their research into and sensitivity to the site.) It has also been proposed to fully cover the 13-19 White Street building east wall, all the way to the unusable triangular north tip, with "reclaimed" red brick, thus covering up the real original brick with an ersatz brick skin, a piece of theater. Why blot out the original???? The northern elevation of the proposed new building shows the weirdest, ugliest fusion, or gluing, of an extremely skinny six-story strip of glass to the grand old cast iron facade, that makes no architectural, aesthetic or historic sense whatsoever. The especial beauty of the 13-19 White Street building's northeast corner, stretching from its handsome mansard roof down both its cast iron face and its pink-brick exposed wall will be destroyed. One can now stand back and take in that beautiful mansard cornice and its stem. And there is absolutely no need for a new building to consume bits of unusable triangular land at either the north end of the Franklin parcel or the north end of the White-Street parcel, with the developer asking for a variance to escape the 80%/20% zoning law (a law requiring 20% of the lot to be left unbuilt). Add to all this, the fact that the curtain wall will drastically, if not completely, block the light down the alley to all the buildings on this Franklin/White block and will wholly erase the wonderfully interesting, characteristic and historic view through the trees down that broad back alley. We were told the proposed building's ground floor would be retail/commercial, and we believe the true street-side effect -- with that enormous glass curtain wall backed by synthetic brick arches -- can only be that of a suburban shopping mall. And WHO, in heaven's name, will be tending those much-touted vines seven or ten or 25 years from now? The greenery is only an ephemeral garnish. Please, powers that be, don't let this alien phenomenon land in our protected neighborhood. — Richard Beckett & Prudence Carlson on The Glassy New Building Coming to Sixth Ave.