THE TRASHING OF TRIBECA
A reader wrote in asking how we might get the Department of Sanitation to keep the neighborhood cleaner—in particular, can anything be done about the overflowing garbage cans on every corner? Plus: Depressing info on the mountains of trash bags lining so many sidewalks.

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STORMPROOFING BATTERY PARK CITY
The Battery Park City Authority released its first proposals for increasing flood resiliency. The biggest changes are to Wagner Park, which will get a reconceived pavilion (above) and a footbridge, but there will also be new walls and other barriers throughout the neighborhood.

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 3/27: The new restaurant in Truffles Tribeca (above). Plus: White Street restaurant isn’t coming back to life; a photo of Saturday’s jet flyover; fashion designer moving out; the big new rental building on Hudson; exhibit of work by a fashion photographer.
••• 3/28: The name of the new kids’ store. Plus: The argument against “Fearless Girl”; new façade (with glass bricks?) for a Leonard Street building; residential conversion on Greenwich; reserving a bar stool on OpenTable; an exhibit of “wood worms.”
••• 3/29: Grand Banks’s reopening dates. Plus: Correction about the progress of Citigroup’s renovation; the roofline of 70 Vestry; new Baron von Fancy billboard; pop-up antiques shop inside Gary Graham’s atelier.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 3/27: Citigroup renovation update. Plus: “Fearless Girl” extended; three-car accident at West and Murray; the city’s first new ferry got stuck in Florida; By Chloe’s chef has left the company; the Battery Park City Authority’s bond rating.
••• 3/28: “Nobu Downtown” opens next week (without Nobu Next Door). Plus: Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel reportedly bought in Tribeca; Augustine review; Landmarc wins its trademark fight with the Seagram Building restaurant; potential $100 million funding shortfall for the World Trade Center performing arts center.
••• 3/29: SoulCycle CEO’s Tribeca favorites. Plus: Prominent Canal Street topper can’t clear the Landmarks Preservation Commission; arrest made in series of FiDi bar thefts; Rockaway ferry to be the first of the new routes to launch; “Breaking Bad” pop-up restaurant.

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ODE TO CANAL STREET
As the street changes, its distinctiveness is disappearing. That’s progress, of course, and not unwelcome, but I’ve been making an effort to capture the street as it is now, in all its graffitied splendor.

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