Plus: Arcade Bakery opens Monday; 93 Worth storefront; Tin Building meeting; JEM Fabrics rave; Downtown Boathouse opens on Pier 40 today; CD and record sale; City Hall Park tree uprooted. / 2 comments
Plus: Jem Fabric Warehouse's closing sale; something happening at the old Flor de Sol space?; subway entrance; TriBattery Pops; a wine tip.
Plus: Blue Moon Fish and Stokes Farm return to the Greenmarket; the club called Quest; Space on White going co-op; Vesey bridge closure; the argument against Seamless. / 3 comments
Plus: Community Board 1 main meeting moved; New York Academy of Art's Tribeca Ball; tween book club; a fun party to which you should come. / 4 comments
Plus: Steven Alan Home Store opening this week; Lani's Farm back at the Saturday Greenmarket; Jem café closed?; ball fields start getting turfed; hawk sighting. / 1 comment
It's time for Mona Akhtar's monthly look at who's rocking the sidewalk. And remember, if she stops you on the street, say yes! / 14 comments
Plus: Jem Café is back; Taste of Tribeca tickets are now on sale; meeting about John Street construction; a Barnes & Noble rant; my book is now so cheap you really have no excuse, even if you don't own a Kindle. / 8 comments
Plus: Eye doctor opening soon; Super Linda's dinner menu; State Senator Squadron and the State Liquor Authority. / 1 comment
To call JEM Café a labor of love is a major understatement. Owner Davis Thompkins did the woodwork, the plumbing—everything, basically, and he has no background in that stuff. It's adorable. / 1 comment
A hotel (or condos), a school expansion, and restaurants and cafés (conveyor-belt sushi, another one from the Tiny's owner, pizza, and a high-profile chef...). / 2 comments
I paid a social call to Broadway's leading costume designer, who moved his atelier to Walker Street just over a year ago. / 6 comments
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