Plus Pop Smoke at Patron of the New; Tommy Hilfiger's daughter's "kind of weird" aesthetic; and two men are slashed in the afternoon at the Canal Street A/C/E station.
From Kolkata to Paducah, elder care to special sauce: Tribeca is taking over the world. / 5 comments
From Moscow to Nairobi, plastic surgery to Nasty Gal: Tribeca is taking over the world. / 1 comment
From Ghana to Switzerland, Versace to Sears: Tribeca is taking over the world. / 3 comments
Plus: NYT on Tribeca Film Festival • Outsider-art review • Brooklyn Banks skate park • WTC performing arts center • Terroir Tribeca • Hudson River Park
Tribeca's industrial heritage isn't entirely over: Things do still get made here—such as the beautiful axes from Best Made Co. Founder Peter Buchanan-Smith showed me how it's done.
Plus: Botox on sale • Cass Lilien selling her wares at Kiva • New York Vintners to be home for a very serious (i.e., expensive) tasting • Don't call Alycea Ungaro "Bike 46"
Curious about the "extreme party event" loft at 109 Reade that's been in the local news? (That's the one where "fire massages" have been offered.) A tipster discovered photos of it on Airbnb, a site where travelers locate rooms to rent.
I've been dragging my camera around all the time, and every now and then I shoot something that doesn't quite go with a story....
Plus: Inside Terroir Tribeca • Hudson River Park budget woes • Taste of Front Street • Tamarind Tribeca opening Mar. 29 • Greenwich Street fails address test • Marc Forgione pork sliders • Blake Lively and Beyoncé's mom
Plus: 60 Warren penthouse • 56 Leonard gets built! Kinda... • Tribeca-based CEO all over the news • American Thread Building • Grown & Sewn gets a rave
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Thank you, Trisha! Hope to see you again soon :) — Professor Baker / Seen & Heard: The Tribeca Citizen, on the rocks
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