Sample menus and other details for Marc Forgione's Laotian restaurant, the global brasserie coming to the old Matsugen space, a new vegetarian restaurant, and the Greek spot replacing Turks & Frogs. Also: More on 50 Varick, sidewalk seating at Locanda Verde and Aamanns, and a couple street events. / 2 comments
Plus: La Colombe founder gets a TV show; affordable housing discussion; yet another hotel for FiDi; Grammy-winning teacher; F. Scott Fitzgerald rolls in his grave.
Tribeca residents Damon and Lisa Liss have headquartered their two businesses—Damon Liss Design and the Liss Real Estate Group—in a storefront on Hudson. / 3 comments
He's an addiction psychotherapist you might have seen on "The Dr. Oz Show." / 1 comment
Carla Sullivan, who just founded MiniMunchers—a website about kid-friendly restaurants—shows us around her Tribeca and Battery Park City. / 1 comment
Besides all the new businesses opening soonish and laterish, there are four expansions in the works—including an upscale restaurant for south Tribeca.
Plus: A decision on the Winter Garden staircase by the end of the year?; Adeline Adeline; a former WMS teacher; a cat that swims for physical therapy; and a freelance ballerina.
...at Billy's Bakery for two days only. Plus: Half off at Adrienne's Pizza Bar, cheap bread at Farinella, Washington Market School expands, art exhibit tonight, a summer food prediction.
The photograph begs the question: when is that scaffolding coming down? Seems a very very long time that it has... — George Bacon / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
ITS BACK BETTER THAN EVER! BEST LOCAL PLACE FOR A DRINK AND GOOD FOOD!!! CANT WAIT FOR LUNCH!!! — AA / North Bar is closing for the summer — and will reopen as something new
Since this issue is in play again, I'll opine that the "fluid boundaries between public and private space" is an... — Gary / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
I think you would feel differently if your private moments with your children were being surveilled and photographed. People shouldn't... — Fiona / Giving new meaning to nosy neighbor
Truly sad. Got our son's first "Tribeca Cool Kids" clothes there 15 years ago (on sale!) and they couldn't have... — Downtown Dad Again / Koh’s Kids on Greenwich has closed
The graffiti in question looks very similar to the same outside of Target (on the never-ending construction barriers) which questioned... — Downtown Dad Again / Tribeca-branded graffiti on West Broadway
Our apartment was inside the "frozen zone" and when we were finally able to return to it in mid-October, I... — Makes You Go Hmmmm.... / A documentary honors the work of the Sanitation Department after 9/11