••• The Epoch Times visits “architect Joe Eisner’s ultramodern three-bedroom loft in Tribeca.” Lots of photos by Petr Svab, including the one above.

••• “High-end supermarket Brooklyn Fare will be replacing D’Agostino at The Archive at 666 Greenwich Street [….] In September 2013, D’Agostino missed an Oct. 31, 2012 deadline to extend its lease following a Superstorm Sandy-related paperwork issue.” No word yet on whether it’ll include a restaurant. —Commercial Observer

••• “Today Starbucks opens its very first ‘express’ store […] at 14 Wall Street. The tiny space across from the Stock Exchange has no seating, and a menu limited to things that can be made quickly—no Frappuccinos, in other words. But the real express part comes with the ordering system. An employee is stationed behind a POS in the middle of the shop, so that people place their orders before they get to the register. They then pay at the counter, pick up their drink, and leave through a different door.” Why not just inject it? —Eater

••• “Last fall and earlier this year, the Battery Park City Authority paid $45,000 in taxpayer money to a politically connected public relations firm, which was awarded the contract under what an Authority spokesman calls an ‘informal’ process, during a period when the Authority had little contact with the media and few stories about it appeared in the press.” According to the Broadsheet‘s investigation, the whole thing reeks.