Plus: $1 pizza; getting into Tribeca Film Festival's opening night; beach volleyball; sales on shoes and pens; CB1 meeting; Plein Sud party.
Is it closed? Turning into a nightclub? Getting a facelift? UPDATE: It's closed; the new owner is who wants to make it into a club. UPDATE AGAIN: It's closed, but there are not new owners and the place will still do business as Il Matto. / 1 comment
Shirley MacLaine, Earth Day, and Tribeca Film Festival tickets are just a few of the highlights on this week’s agenda. Plus: Is that a poem in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?
Plus: Momofuku at Goldman Sachs; New tenants at 185 Franklin; more on the Tribeca Twelve halfway house; Pier A renderings; Stuzzicheria chef departs; pan-Asian restaurant Koko; divorcée party. / 1 comment
Your new neighbor. Plus: 9/11 remains; La Colombe "extremist"; new CB1 members; Battery Park sculptures; Hunger Feast; Skyscraper Museum show; Tribeca Film Festival founder Q&A; Patrick Wilson; Good Girls ad agency. / 1 comment
Luke's Lobster in FiDi, a new building for Franklin Street, building above the Warren Street dog run, and more: What CB1 will be discussing this month. / 6 comments
Plus: Pier A agita; Fulton Street Transit Center on schedule; lobster cart menu and opening date; Battery Park's turkey-shaped farm; e.e. cummings's desk. / 1 comment
Why not? Plus: Inside Todd Oldham's office; Gigino; crime at Equinox Tribeca; a top-ten off-the-menu dish; and a whole lot more.
It lives! Plus: Pan-Asian in Greenwich South; Soho Rep discount; affordable-housing survey; Kanlo teahouse. / 2 comments
Plus: Algonquin Seaport Theater's community event; benefits for New Amsterdam Market; CB1 hearing on the mayor's budget; cherry blossom festival; prenatal Pilates; World Trade Center progress.
Regal won't play along, but there will be a daylong soccer event on Pier 40, and the family festival won't relegate local businesses to the lower level of BMCC like it did last year.
Plus: Salaam Bombay deal; upcoming shopping mixer; cool art via Let There Be Neon; wine dinner; yarn art. / 2 comments
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