Read about Le Pain Quotidien in the Tribeca Citizen Restaurant Guide.
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.
Having enjoyed Liat Silberman's insight and sense of humor at the meetings of CB1's Tribeca Committee, I was tickled to learn that she's the Tribeca Tarot Reader. She agreed to answer a few questions about it.
I love the implication here that 'professionals' and people with families don't consume cannabis. What world, and what year, do... — malcolm / Neighbors on Duane Park are organizing against cannabis shop
It depends how much cannabis the neighborhood wants to consume. — Thomas Hagen / Neighbors on Duane Park are organizing against cannabis shop
I think business people know that a LOT of people consume marijuana and gummies -- across all socio-economic levels. The... — Tribeca Citizen / Neighbors on Duane Park are organizing against cannabis shop
How many of these do we need? — S / Neighbors on Duane Park are organizing against cannabis shop
No words to describe one of the best people I have the pleasure to be in contact with... Peter you... — Lou Montoya / Peter Bianco, who loved his wife, his family and his adopted neighborhood, has died at 51
I met Peter at Vassar College and knew him to be always, fun and kind and spreading positive energy to... — Basak Ertuna / Peter Bianco, who loved his wife, his family and his adopted neighborhood, has died at 51
I too have nothing against legal dispensaries. But this particular block just worries me. Cash business, quiet block, lots of... — Concerned / Neighbors on Duane Park are organizing against cannabis shop