LOFT PEEPING: YEN HA & RICH TESLER
When you’re an architect, the prospect of a renovation doesn’t seem so intimidating. Plus, if you find extra space in between the walls, you’ll know what to do with it. Take a look around Yen Ha and Rich Tesler’s Tribeca apartment.

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THIS WEDNESDAY: MEET AND MINGLE AT BOND NEW YORK
Join BOND New York’s Tribeca Team for a First Wednesdays party this Wednesday (Aug. 5). It’s celebrating the opening of Urban Decay, a show of work by Marianne Huntington. Hosted by seasoned real estate agents Jeanine Le Ny, Jacob Fine, and Donald Abbott—who share a passion for art and real estate—and sponsored by Citi, First Wednesdays is an opportunity for local residents and business owners to meet, network, and unwind. If you can’t make it, Huntington’s artwork will be on display through September 30. BOND New York is at 25 Hudson (between Duane and Reade); bondtribeca.com. Sponsored.

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STATE OF THE SITE
Time flies when you’re blogging: It’s been 16 months since the last State of the Site update about readership, advertising, and other under-the-hood topics.

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 7/30: Salt Shed enthusiasm. Plus: Robert Janz on Cecil the lion (above); Soho Grand brings back its Gilligan’s outdoor bar; shoot permits for “Limitless” and Michael Kors; swampiness.
••• 7/31: Shorty the dog was lost and then found. Plus: Bus stop signs being reinstalled on Chambers; local politicians’ statement about the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy; “Affair” shoot.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 7/30: NBA player lists N. Moore penthouse. Plus: Battery Park City Authority head says outgoing parks leader was “headed for retirement”; wallet stolen from stroller at Whole Foods; update on Peck Slip Park.
••• 7/31: Papal lottery. Plus: SoulCycle files to go public; private high school teacher in FiDi accused of sex with student.

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WHERE IN TRIBECA…?
Congratulations to Jim Smithers for correctly identifying last week’s Where in Tribeca…? (Click the link to discover the answer.) We’ll play again Friday morning.

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FIELD TRIP
There’s a show at the New York Botanical Garden about Frida Kahlo’s art and garden that’s best for Kahlophiles, but the rest of the garden made up for it.

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