Read about Le Pain Quotidien in the Tribeca Citizen Restaurant Guide.
Plus: Montessori of Manhattan expanding its Beach Street campus; Seaport Film & Food Festival; hoping that El Vez Burrito will open on weekends; Park Row storefront renovations. / 4 comments
Also on Community Board 1’s July agendas: The big hotel being built on Greenwich will have "rooftop features"; Keith McNally's Beekman restaurant; more construction on Leonard; FiDi is getting a Le Pain Quotidien; Atera's bar; W. Broadway pedestrian plaza. / 4 comments
Plus: Fundraising drive for Church Street School; El Vez margarita workaround; brownies at Le Pain Quotidien; Showboat Circus; checking in on Canal Street hotels.
Mosaic artist Valerie Carmet shows us around her Hudson Street studio. "It's very sunny, peaceful, inspirational, full of plates, stained glass, and mixed media and materials," she says. "But mainly messy!"
"If I could change one thing about the neighborhood, I would pedestrianize Greenwich Street," says Sanjay Lamba, who founded Element 6 Arts online gallery with his wife, Alexandra. (As you can see, they also recently collaborated on another special project.) / 4 comments
And (unrelatedly) Turks & Frogs is evidently closing. Also on the Community Board 1 agendas for November: The 1WTC spire is going to be paraded through Tribeca; the Matsugen space's new tenant is back; is RBC still alive?; Taste of Tribeca 2013 date.
All good New Yorkers know they’re not supposed to talk to celebrities, but that doesn’t mean they can’t tweet about spotting them out and about. Or hoping to, anyway. / 4 comments
"We were out to dinner with our relatives at Churrascaria Tribeca when much to our delight, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gisele Bündchen and their entourage came in and sat for dinner at the table beside us." / 1 comment
Plus: Chamber-music salon at Le Pain Quotidien; Liberty Street conversion comes back to life; new FiDi community group. / 2 comments
Patrick Parrish, owner of modernist gallery Mondo Cane, shows us around his Tribeca—including where he won't order from anymore and who had one heck of a birthday party.
Let's talk about me! Here are answers to 10 reader-submitted questions.... / 9 comments
This week: Photos taken on Chambers, W. Broadway, Murray, and Vesey.
I'm all for it. — Marcus / The neighborhood’s camera infrastructure
Interesting question - considering what happened at the Tents & Trails building on Park Place. The current cross-bracing is complex,... — Gary / Construction Update: Southeast corner of West Broadway and Warren
The crossing on the west side of the intersection of Canal and 6th Av is very long. There is a... — Heide Fasnacht / Canal Street ranks as one of city’s deadliest
im devasted i loved nish nush :( — Nish Nush / Nish Nush has closed to make way for a new building
K sez: Will be interesting to watch how they shore up the neighboring buildings - which were tilting/falling after the... — K / Construction Update: Southeast corner of West Broadway and Warren
No surprise. I've almost been run over multiple times by red-light running speeders. There should be: - speed bumps -... — Marcus / Canal Street ranks as one of city’s deadliest
It's 4,000 new units at 100 Gold St, they're estimating over 8,000 new residents. — FidiMom / Seen & Heard: Big reno for east side of Pace campus