Opening Friday with "cocktails and bites." Plus: Cigar shop closed; Gary Graham sample sale; "Catch Me If You Can" event; a missing portrait.
Featuring cheese, fish, and bugs. Plus: Freud Bar, possibly coming to the Smyth; special Shake Shack grill for Goldman Sachs?; City Hall fuel cell; attempts to preserve 105-107 Washington; and the area around Canal Street (supposedly called "Venice").
Opening a week from today. Plus: Skylofts sells out; Cuomo's controversial BPCA appointment; little leaguers go to a Mets game; El Gringo. / 4 comments
Details on the new plans for Il Matto. Plus: Discoveries under Fulton Street; graffiti artist's loft recreated; 25 Broad now leasing; 4WTC potentially delayed. UPDATE: Added Manhattan Loft Guy's before-and-after look at Alexander Wang's loft.
The Il Matto folks tried to explain themselves at last night's meeting of the CB1 Tribeca committee. It was a little ugly, and just in the traditional neighbors-vs.-owners way. / 2 comments
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
One mystery solved, thanks to the new CB1 agenda! Plus: a pizza restaurant is coming, Il Matto wants to party harder, and a proposed new building for eastern Walker.
Plus: Another restaurant is shut down by the health department; Terroir nixes brunch; Marc Cohn, Natalie Cole, and the Blind Boys of Alabama coming to the neighborhood; Il Matto discount; StreetEasy's response re: 50 Franklin. UPDATE 3/29: A map of Tribeca East.
Seven local businesses can celebrate being included in this year's "Best of New York" issue of New York magazine. Plus: The best gay party is in FiDi?!
Plus: Jumbo pasta; Project No. 8's post-pop-up plans; cute T-shirt; Il Matto discount; Taste of Tribeca tickets. / 2 comments
Plus: Best happy hour deal around?; a real pig-out of a dinner; dubious tweets; Shirley, Larry, Sheryl, and Chaz all coming to Barnes & Noble.
The photograph begs the question: when is that scaffolding coming down? Seems a very very long time that it has... — George Bacon / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
ITS BACK BETTER THAN EVER! BEST LOCAL PLACE FOR A DRINK AND GOOD FOOD!!! CANT WAIT FOR LUNCH!!! — AA / North Bar is closing for the summer — and will reopen as something new
Since this issue is in play again, I'll opine that the "fluid boundaries between public and private space" is an... — Gary / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
I think you would feel differently if your private moments with your children were being surveilled and photographed. People shouldn't... — Fiona / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
Truly sad. Got our son's first "Tribeca Cool Kids" clothes there 15 years ago (on sale!) and they couldn't have... — Downtown Dad Again / Koh’s Kids on Greenwich has closed
The graffiti in question looks very similar to the same outside of Target (on the never-ending construction barriers) which questioned... — Downtown Dad Again / Tribeca-branded graffiti on West Broadway
Our apartment was inside the "frozen zone" and when we were finally able to return to it in mid-October, I... — Makes You Go Hmmmm.... / A documentary honors the work of the Sanitation Department after 9/11