Plus: Starbucks and Vitamin Shoppe look likely to open sooner than expected; Frenchette menu with prices; more on Ato restaurant's tea room and shop; opera at the Flea; Bortolami gallery show. / 1 comment
Plus: Mysterious partitioning at two retail spaces; no activity at the Greenwich Street hotel; StreetEasy's Tribeca joke; signs of life at the Loopy Doopy rooftop bar; Starbucks in the Intergate telecom hotel.
Plus: The Smile Newsstand's story has changed; real-estate sales office on Leonard; progress on new Starbucks on Chambers; Bar Works co-working space is nearly ready; 1st Precinct Community Council meeting. / 4 comments
Plus: CVS rumored for Hudson Street; union members wielding air horns; Tetsu menu items previewed; Starbucks at the World Trade Center mall; Downtown Community Center introduces Glide Fit classes; Sapar Contemporary group show. / 7 comments
Plus: Exhibit of work by Tribeca photographer Jeffrey Shagawat; a lament about the 1st Precinct's park-anywhere philosophy; Starbucks tries programming; TV shoot today. / 2 comments
Plus: The revamped Frankly Wines has debuted; new sunglasses store and cafés at the World Trade Center mall; Yorganic has closed for a renovation; Khe-Yo's proposed sidewalk seating; the "Love" sign atop the James hotel; a suggestion for City Winery.
Plus: Whole Foods courts tour buses; BlackTail is now taking reservations; something appears to be moving into Reade Street storefront; "Odd Mom Out" is settling in for a long shoot. / 3 comments
Plus: Brookfield Properties chooses Cuomo friend's company to run the North Cove Marina sailing school; 111 Murray passes halfway point; Starbucks to end its beer-and-wine program.
Plus: Houseman to test Sunday brunch; Soho Photo's October shows; a likely condo sales office on Lispenard; a Tribecan's webseries, shot in the area; the chairs at the new Starbucks Reserve café; shoots for "Caine" and iHeartRadio. / 2 comments
And a Vitamin Shoppe, too, as chains continue wrapping their fingers around the neighborhood. Plus: The first rendering for the new 10-story building where the two stores will be. / 4 comments
Plus: Rumored nightclub underneath the Beekman hotel; "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" on stage; Seaport warning; Peter Murphy in concert; donated studio space for artists. / 7 comments
Plus: A new shop at Brookfield Place and other news from the mall; Michael Kors drops plans to open a store at the World Trade Center; the transformation of 250 Church appears to be on hold; muggings and thefts. / 3 comments
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