THERE IS SUCH A THING AS A FREE SNACK
All you have to do is send a text message to MaxDelivery between noon and 5 or 6 p.m., and they’ll send over a free snack. The details (including what I received).

CALENDAR: JULY 30–AUGUST 15
This weekend in and around Tribeca: “Regular Lovers,” a 2005 film by Phillippe Garrel; Avi Buffalo and Chad Vangaalen in concert, as part of the River to River Festival; “Reclaim the Coast—Oil Spill Benefit”; screenings of Jacques Rivette’s “Duelle” and “Le Pont du Nord”; concert by Nanny Assis; Chinatown walking tour: “From Coffeehouses to Banquet Halls”; Dumpling Night; Bueno Bueno, a tribute to Morphine; Fulton Stall Market; Klezmer brunch.

REFLECTIONS ON THE CITY
I’ve been enchanted by the patterns created when light bounces off one building and onto another. They remind me how much magic is left to be discovered in this city, even if you’ve lived here a while.

IN THE NEWS
••• 7/26 roundup: DSW to be DOA. Plus: The panhandling nun gets identified; the new loft law; a rapper drops the name of a Tribeca restaurant; Restaurant Week is extended; rough sailing at Pier A.
••• 7/28 roundup: Damon Dash foreclosure. Plus: no landmarking for the Park Place building; new Seaport playground; what’s behind the Park51 fear-mongering; plans to control the rat population; and CB1 guide for senior services.
••• 7/29 roundup: BLT season at Wichcraft begins. Plus: Shake Shack, Blue Smoke, and one more restaurant TBD in BPC; Damon Dash auction report; rats in Collect Pond Park; Peck Slip post office; BLT Bar & Grill discount; 100 Church tenant.

WICKIWORLD
Wicki Boyle on the horseflesh and manflesh occasionally on display at the police stable on Varick Street, as well as on the River to River Festival’s recent tribute to legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 7/27 roundup: Taj Tribeca deal. Plus: BLT Bar & Grill’s opening party; what’s up with the construction at Tribeca Cinemas; free time at Space on White; and a big night at City Winery.
••• 7/28 roundup: A glimpse at what Downtown Dance Factory’s new space will be like. Plus: Moomah classes; Tribeca Wine Merchants sale; Tribeca MedSpa sale; art and jewelry sale.
••• 7/29 roundup: Pinnacle Medical is coming to a high-profile retail space. Plus: Deals on pizza and candy; BluePrint Cleanse pick-up soon available in Tribeca.

WHERE IN TRIBECA
Barry Fidnick sent this one in…. I walk down this street every three days or so, but I never noticed this. Anyone know where it was shot? Guess in the comments on the page you reach by clicking here.

Previous “Where in Tribeca…?” posts (with answers):
• Blurry street
• Reddish wall
• Pizza sign
• Cigar smoker
• Circles
• STA OUT sign
• Another fire hydrant
• Fire plug
• Garden path
• College Place sign
• Smiling face
• Arrow
• Face on wooden door
• Painted thing
• Brick face
• Horseshoe
• Tiled doorstep
• Twine sign
• Tiled hydrant

••• Today’s deal on KGB Deals is $15 for $30 worth of food and drink at Brick. You have four days left to snag the deal. Today’s deal on Groupon, meanwhile, is $15 for $30 worth of beautiful Papabubble candy (left). You have five hours left to snag the deal.

••• BluePrint Cleanse pick-up is coming to Tribeca: more specifically, Alycea Ungaro’s Real Pilates. According to BPC’s website, the service will be available as of August 22.

••• As of today, Wichcraft is making its BLTs—they only do it when the tomatoes are good enough. Now you know why I’m a semi-vegetarian…. (Grub Street)

••• Re: the two apartments owned by Damon Dash that were put up for auction yesterday: “There were nearly $9 million worth of liens on the two properties, which were first offered as a pair, for just under $8 million. When the package didn’t sell, they were offered separately. One sold, the other did not. The first condo, in the Atalanta at 25 North Moore Street in Tribeca, saw a brief bidding war before selling to a company called Platinum Capital for $5.5 million. The minimum bid the bank would accept was $5 million. The other apartment, at the Sugar Warehouse at 79 Laight Street, also in Tribec, did not meet its $3 million minimum bid, so it now belongs to the bank.” (New York Times)

••• Video of rats swarming Collect Pond Park. That reminds me: I recently contacted the Parks Department to see if plans to redo the park were really underway, and I never heard back. (Curbed)

••• Eater reports on the opening of BLT Bar & Grill; also, everything at the restaurant is 10% off through Labor Day.

••• “The Peck Slip Post Office, located between Pearl and Water Streets, is looking to sell the top half of its United States Postal Service-owned building. But the U.S.P.S. has yet to reach a final deal and the possibility remains for the New York City Department of Education to open a new public school at the location.” (Downtown Express)

••• SL Green Realty “landed a big new tenant for 100 Church St. [between Park and Barclay]. Healthfirst agreed to lease 172,000 square feet there for 20 years. That is the largest deal SL Green has closed in the 1,080,000-square-foot building since taking it over earlier this year in a foreclosure. The building was roughly 50% vacant when SL Green acquired it from the Sapir Family, which had defaulted on a mortgage.” (Crain’s) Related: The New York Post says the “jinx” on the building is now over, thanks in good part because SL Green is “normalizing” the lobby: “Best of all, SL Green is normalizing the weird lobby, which was notoriously decorated with Swarovski chandeliers—22 of them—giving it the appearance of a chandelier showroom on Bowery. It didn’t help that the fixtures sprouted serpentine, squid-like arms.”

••• Tribeca Wine Merchants is having a “major End of July sale.”

••• Tribeca MedSpa is offering 20% off all services; the offer expires July 31.

••• New to Moomah this fall: Kulinary Kids cooking class and Seedlings Group New Moms Workshop.

••• A few renderings of Downtown Dance Factory’s upcoming space, designed by Tribeca’s own Ghislaine Viñas….

The dance community coalesced to pay tribute to Cunningham’s influence by using his iconic methods in his familiar spirit of rigorous play. There was a simple wooden platform erected in the midst of Rockefeller Park and dancers warmed up flying across the stage or stretched while the toddler set—I had two in tow—hit the swings, sand, or water in a mode of active waiting.

Finally the speakers screeched and blared and we were all drawn to watch. The event was curated and produced by Annie B. Parsons and William Knapp and works were created by Lucinda Childs, Susan Marshall, Jon Kinzell, Faye Driscoll, and Bill T. Jones, who roamed and circled the crowd’s perimeters with the grace of a linen-clad lion.

There were no tickets, no permits, no chairs, just a lazy sprawling crowd, who knew or didn’t about the wealth of art Merce poured into the New York City and world artistic community for decades. But often art outside can be best digested by those who stumble upon it and are reminded that glory and majesty crop up. Like the crayon-green grass or the sparkle on the water, some things need to be glimpsed without fanfare so we can ruminate on them later.

About the author: Wickham Boyle, known as Wicki, has written for The New York Times, National Geographic, and other publications. She was a founder of CODE and ThriveNYC  magazine, executive director of La MaMa theater, and author of A Mother’s Essays From Ground Zero, which debuted as an opera in 2008. She has an MBA from Yale and worked as a Wall Street stockbroker. At Memory & Movement, she writes about memorizing poems while walking along the Hudson.

Recently in Wickiworld:
• Cheesecake in Tribeca
• Wooly Bully
• Tickling the Ivories
• She Writes Grows Up
• Tumbling Down Memory Lane with Suellen Epstein

••• The New York Times’s Clyde Haberman looks at the politics of the Park51 fear-mongering. Related: CB1 decided against landmarking the building. (DNAinfo)

••• Imagination Playground (left) opened at Burling Slip (between South and Front Streets). (Broadsheet Daily)

••• Assemblyman Sheldon Silver’s plan to control the rats in lower Manhattan. (Curbed)

••• “After a year of work, a group of Community Board 1 volunteers headed by Tom Goodkind has produced a ‘Seniors’ Guide for Lower Manhattan,’ which will be officially released today. The 55-page guide covers housing and senior centers, health and safety resources, transportation benefits for seniors and local clubs and organizations that serve seniors. It also lists advocacy groups and useful websites and phone numbers such as those for the New York State Office for the Aging, National Shared Housing, Meals on Wheels and MTA accessibility.” (Broadsheet Daily)

••• Get 50% off (maximum $20 savings) at Taj Tribeca via Scoutmob. You have until midnight to snag the deal, which expires Oct. 27.

••• Follow Space on White on Twitter today and get one hour free space.

••• The guests for the July 28 tribute to Alex Chilton at City Winery have been announced: Yo La Tengo, Marshall Crenshaw [I heard "Someday Someway" on the radio yesterday—what a great song], Jody Stephens, Jon Auer, Doug Garrison, Rene Coman, Alan Vega, Jon Spencer (of the Blues Explosion), Fran Kowalski, Chris Stamey, Lesa Aldridge (Elizabeth Hoehn), Jay Proctor (of Jay & the Techniques), Bill Cunningham, Gary Talley, Terry Manning, Evan Dando, Jesse Malin, Danny Kroha (of The Gories). And coming up at City Winery: JJ Grey (Aug. 11), The Sway Machinery, billed as “part ritual, part rock concert” (Sept. 8), and the one I’m most looking forward to, Over the Rhine (Sept 16).

••• BLT Bar & Grill posted pix from its opening party on Facebook. A shame I wasn’t invited couldn’t be there!

When my kids were little we used to wander by on a regular basis. I said it was for them, but in reality I loved to revel in the sweet smell of hay and horse and to pet the velvet noses. I kept the sensation in my fingertips and nostrils for as long as I could, recalling all those lazy summer days when all I had was a lovely bay horse, tall black boots, cut off shorts and a T-shirt; I couldn’t imagine ever needing more in summer.

So when I happened by the stable during the recent swelter, in a languid attempt at errands, I was pleasantly stopped in my tracks by Tank (he’s the horse) and Dan. Both were happily splashing water, kicking up a wet ruckus and reminding me how sweet summer can be. Both are cute as big, muscly buttons.

I can’t tell you who beguiled me more.

About the author: Wickham Boyle, known as Wicki, has written for The New York Times, National Geographic, and other publications. She was a founder of CODE and ThriveNYC magazine, executive director of La MaMa theater, and author of A Mother’s Essays From Ground Zero, which debuted as an opera in 2008. She has an MBA from Yale and worked as a Wall Street stockbroker. At Memory & Movement, she writes about memorizing poems while walking along the Hudson.

Recently in Wickiworld:
• Wooly Bully
• Tickling the Ivories
• She Writes Grows Up
• Tumbling Down Memory Lane with Suellen Epstein
• Bells Are Ringing: Lai Montesca’s New Installation

So what did I get?