BEHOLD THE WORLD TRADE CENTER OCULUS
To go along with the debut of the World Trade Center mall, the street-level entrances to the Oculus have opened, along with the dramatic pedestrian plaza along the north side. Here’s what’s new.

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS: IL PESCE AT EATALY
The new downtown location of Eataly has five restaurants. The first to be reviewed: Il Pesce, which is focused on seafood.

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LOFT PEEPING: FIVE CLASSICS
Home, sweet, sweet home.
••• American Thread Building Penthouse: There’s a rotunda.
••• PJ Mattan & Jett House: There’s a trampoline.
••• Outdoorsy Thirtysomething Software Entrepreneur: Just the best 7,000-square-foot roof terrace ever.
••• Indoor-Outdoor Penthouse in Northwest Tribeca: The giant skylight retracts, turning a mezzanine terrarium into a recessed terrace.
••• Four-Level FiDi Funhouse: A slide. Two peephole windows. A catwalk for the cats. A swing. A climbing wall. A mural inspired by Michael Jackson’s ranch….

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 8/15: Apple store revealed. Plus: PATH buses running through Tribeca; Chinatown buses illegally dropping off passengers here; Lilly O’Brien’s grade from the Department of Health; lunch at Eataly’s fancier restaurant; poop scofflaw [which got a lot of comments].
••• 8/16: Peek inside new Greenwich Street restaurant. Plus: Virtual tour of the Four Seasons hotel; Tribeca Film Festival dates; World Trade Center mall postcard; anti-TriBeCa petition; Robert Reitzfeld paintings at Front Art Space.
••• 8/17: The Beekman Hotel opens soon. Plus: New entrances to the R train at the World Trade Center; Thomas Street closure on Sunday; Warby Parker pop-up; Le Pain Quotidien in Battery Park City said to be opening this week; “Law & Order: SVU” is back yet again.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 8/15: The banana man. Plus: 9/11-linked cancer rate has tripled; assessing last weekend’s Shared Streets event; Le District review; another swipe at Tribeca; Avenue of the Americas plaques.
••• 8/16: Giant walls of garbage. Plus: A French magazine profiles a FiDi loft; tally of open stores at the World Trade Center mall; inside 60 Hudson.
••• 8/17: First aerial photo of Lower Manhattan. Plus: Alleged gigolo headquartered in FiDi; Black Tap’s big new basement dining room; more on the new mall; the history of 6 Stone Street.

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TRIBECA VALENTINE #52
This may be the thinnest silver lining you’ve ever encountered, but if there’s one bright spot to the endless construction in these parts, it’s the excellent logos and typography on many construction-related vans.

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