••• Industria Argentina is closed for renovations. I’ve called to try and find out what’s happening and when it’s reopening, but there has been no answer.

••• On my way home from StuzziPane Panelle last night, I popped into Saluggi’s to ask what they’d be doing with the Sea World space. I was told “possibly sandwiches.”

••• From the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center (via Curbed): “Construction of the innovative new SeaGlass Carousel at Battery Park is progressing steadily, and [...] it will now open with complete moving parts. The carousel was initially expected to open this spring with only the turntable operational. That opening date will now be pushed to fall 2012, letting crews complete the up-and-down/swivel mechanism for each fish on the carousel.”

••• Also from the LMCCC: “Construction of a new condominium building at 371 Broadway [previously known as Five Franklin Place] is expected to resume in February with foundation work, after being on hold since 2008. The 20-story tower, located at Broadway and Franklin Street, will be built atop the existing five-story buildings, with steel replacing the original wood frames.” That link, however, says 17 stories will be added, for a total of 22…?

••• The New York Times has a video/rendering thingamajig about the World Trade Center reconstruction.

••• Artnet profiles Peter Hionas, the fitness instructor who opened a gallery in his Franklin Street studio. Plus: Naked tattooed lady.

••• Zelda, the turkey that lives in Battery Park, survived Irene. (Broadsheet Daily)

Courtesy Curbed

••• Curbed takes a look at the retail spaces at 365 Broadway, the remarkably ugly renovated building at Franklin, where the storefronts have been revealed. I’m not sure I’d call it “Tribeca’s most hated building,” though.

••• “After 21 years in downtown Brooklyn, The Council of School Supervisors and Administrators is shifting its headquarters office across the river to lower Manhattan. The union, also known as CSA, which represents principals, assistant principals and other public school employees, has purchased a 32,019-square-foot commercial condominium at 40 Rector St.” Might as well, they’re always around here protesting. (Crain’s)

••• “On September 8, City Winery will open a new 30-seat restaurant within their downtown facility called The Barrel Room. The room will serve 11 wines on tap, served straight from the barrel, all made on premises, and chef Andres Barrera has come up with a new menu to go along with the wines.” No word yet on whether someone will be sitting on top of you, like in City Winery proper. (Eater)

••• Midtown Lunch says Bombay’s on Pearl is “the Indian gem” of FiDi.

••• “Parents who have long enjoyed spending hours with their kids, looking at art and creating it, can now mark their calendars for the official opening of the new and improved Children’s Museum of the Arts. Founded in Lower Manhattan in 1988, the organization is moving from its original SoHo location to a 10,000-square-foot former loading dock in Hudson Square at 103 Charlton St. The grand opening is set for Oct. 1.” (Downtown Express)

••• “If you co-name it, they will come. That’s what electronics giant J&R Music and Computer World is hoping will happen on Park Row, between Beekman and Ann streets in lower Manhattan, which the retailer wants the city to co-name J&R Way to boost sales and keep its business afloat. ‘Six hundred jobs are dependent on this,’ store spokesman Abe Brown last week told a Community Board 1 committee, apparently without bursting into giggles.” The committee rejected it, but J&R will try its luck with the City Council anyway. (New York Post)

••• Broadsheet Daily check in with Poets House (its annual showcase opens this week) and Friends of Bogardus Garden (which has begun hosting events, sponsored by local businesses).

••• “On a micro-level, though, local gyms have long hoped that the passage of a bill [allowing mixed martial arts in New York] could bolster their bottom lines. Peggy Chau, who operates Fighthouse in Tribeca [inside Tribeca Health & Fitness], says legalization would create a ‘domino effect.’ An event at Madison Square Garden would draw increased attention to the U.F.C., she says, which would lead to greater interest in mixed martial arts classes at all levels.” (New York Times)

••• Terroir is opening an outpost in Murray Hill, which either means Murray Hill is sort or cool or…. (Grub Street)

••• “Three thousand flags bearing the names of 9/11 victims will go on display in Battery Park this September. Called the NYC Memorial Field, the five-day project aims to give all New Yorkers who lived through the events of 9/11 a public place to gather and pay respects to those who were killed that day, during the 10th anniversary.” (DNAinfo)

••• “This Year’s Steven Alan Sale Is a Bit of a Let-Down.” (Racked)

••• Score one for common sense: “After losing appeal, crap art vendors to be limited in Union Square, Central Park, Battery Park and the High Line.” (DNAinfo)

••• “The Post’s Lois Weiss reports that the building’s owners will decide within the next 30 to 45 days whether the Woolworth [Building's] top floors will be a hotel or rental apartments. The permits for $6 million worth of work got Department of Buildings approval earlier this month. As for which of its possible futures is more likely, building partner Steve Witkoff says lots of interested parties have come forward to do the floors as a hotel, but rentals might be a better financial move for the owners.” (Curbed, which also has a link to the Flickr photostream of jphillipobrien2006, who has some great photos of the Woolworth Building)

••• “The United States Postal Service is close to striking a deal with the city to turn the Peck Slip Post Office into a school, officials said this week.” It could open as soon as 2015. (DNAinfo)

••• Chris Salgado, the president of Kiehl’s, lives in Tribeca. (New York Daily News)

••• “A boisterous and passionate crowd turned out at I.S. 89 Wednesday afternoon in an effort to save—yet again—the school’s free after-school program from city cuts.” (Tribeca Trib)

••• “Ground Zero Cultural Center Stuck at Square One.” (New York Observer, via Curbed)

••• “The planned Collective Hardware [which is a sort of club night?] space planned for the basement of Greenhouse appears to be over before it ever got started. Apparently, the project has hit permitting problems and may never get built. Collective Hardware will now head over to the old Canal Room space [at W. Broadway and Canal] for the time being, re-activating a space that has been used for corporate events since it closed down.” (Eater, regarding a BlackBook item)

••• A Bloomberg report on the 5 to Ride campaign to get deliverypeople (and other cyclists) to ride more safely included this: “About 50 businesses have signed the pledge, including The Odeon in Tribeca, Landmarc, Dorian’s Seafood Market on the Upper East Side and ‘Wichcraft’s 13 locations in New York. Gruskin is also working with SeamlessWeb.com, a network of 6,500 restaurants in the U.S. and in London that employ delivery and takeout workers, to adopt the 5 to Ride.org principles.” [Pats self on back.]

••• Gothamist has some great photos (like the one at left) of the new New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion—which needs a new name—at Battery Park, including ones of the nightly colored-light show, which I may have been wrong to doubt. Also: DNAinfo has an article on the ribbon-cutting and Broadsheet Daily found out some details about the Merchants Hospitality restaurant in the kiosk (article may not be online yet). This is going to sound bitchy—because it is, LOL!—but nothing Merchants has done in the past makes me want to eat there.

••• Nightline‘s Jeremy Hubbard tries SoulCycle in Tribeca only to have the result be “20 minutes of workout-induced vomit.” Note: The video on the link page is unrelated, so you can ignore/mute it.

••• “Condo owners at Rector Square, the botched Battery Park City condo conversion by beleaguered developer Yair Levy, can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Court documents show that The Related Cos, which took over the buildings’ unsold units earlier this year, has agreed to work with the condo owners to build a more stable reserve fund and allow Rector Square to operate under its own board, relieving the project of its court-appointed receiver.” (Crain’s)

Here are just a few of the highlights on tap this week. More info on these—and the full slate—is in the Tribeca calendar of events.

Monday
The Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center hosts a free weekly classical music concert for all ages: “If you can read music, bring your violin, viola or cello and join us for some great music and a lot of fun.”

Tuesday
Chaz Bono—Cher’s son (born as a girl named Chastity)—reads at Barnes & Noble. Transgender people are so unbelievably brave. ••• Pen Parentis’s literary salon features Ann Hood, Marina Budhos, and Cara Hoffman. ••• South Korean film Re-Encounter screens for free at Tribeca Cinemas: “Hyehwa is a veternarian’s assistant living a quiet life when suddenly her high school sweetheart reappears one day and tells her that the child they thought died when he got her pregnant at 18 is still alive. Lyrical and intimate, it’s a movie that sees two people tear themselves up in quiet desperation.” That’s the best kind! ••• The Blind Boys of Alabama and the Oak Ridge Boys play City Winery.

Wednesday
Robert Wilson’s “Video 50″ is at 92YTribeca: “A duck cackling into a microphone; a woman’s pancake-makeup-ed face staring tearfully into a smoking toaster; an ordinary couple having a hot dog eating contest on a sunny Sunday morning. With 100 brief episodes strung together for maximum befuddlement, Wilson doles out both the grotesque and the gorgeous.” ••• Reading at Apexart as part of its Almost Famous Reading Series: Marcy Dermansky, Heather Kristin, Albert Mobilio, Stephen O’Connor.

Thursday
The windmill-shaped New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion opens at Battery Park. Attend the 10:30 a.m. ribbon-cutting, if you want. RSVP at 212-408-0111 or special.events@parks.nyc.gov. ••• The Nerve Tank’s “The Attendants” opens at the World Financial Center Winter Garden: “‘The Attendants’ is an interactive multimedia performance featuring two performers enclosed within an eight-foot, transparent cube and a new ‘score’ [Scary use of quotes! —Ed.] by composer Stephen Moore. Audiences can communicate with the performers via text messaging from mobile phones or home computers, which then appear on two plasma screens flanking the cube.” A preview is here. ••• Like teen angst? You’ll get lots of it at 92YTribeca’s “Mortified” show of monologues.

Friday
For the kids: The Paper Bag Players are at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center. ••• At 92YTribeca, Dilys E. Blum, senior curator of costumes and textiles at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, discusses the museum’s well-regarded show about couturier Roberto Capucci (that’s one of his dresses at left). ••• 92YTribeca screens Zoolander and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Keanu rules.

Saturday
The opening of “Dormeur,” a show of work by Vincent P. of the Paris art collective Les Gros Monsieur. Visitors can take one of the 600 photographs (which I believe are all of Vincent P. sleeping). ••• Crash Test Dummies play City Winery. ••• Andrei Konchalovsky’s production of “Uncle Vanya” is at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center. ••• 92YTribeca screens 1973′s Walking Tall.

Sunday
92YTribeca has a walking tour about “the early history of Jewish colonial New York.” ••• Taylor Hicks plays City Winery. ••• Joanie Leeds plays for kids at 92YTribeca.

As for ongoing events, you might consider…
“It’s the end of the world as we know it, or mighty close to it, in Laurel Haines’s agreeably disjointed [play],” said the New York Times in its review of Laurel Haines’s “Future Anxiety,” getting its world premier at the Flea. “And while its many, many inhabitants may not exactly feel fine, they’re largely at peace with a world in which China imports American debtors as slave laborers, and the unemployment rate has dropped to a mere 65 percent.” Photo by Richard Termine for the New York Times.

••• The New York Post‘s Steve Cuozzo thinks people should drop the term “Ground Zero.” Totally agree. (via Curbed)

••• “The National September 11 Memorial and Museum issued [...] a clear, navigable computerized guide to the location of every name inscribed on the bronze parapets that are being installed along the perimeters of the pools where the World Trade Center towers once stood.” Left: a screengrab. (The New York Times)

••• CB1′s Battery Park City committee feels left out of 9/11 memorial events. (Broadsheet Daily)

••• The Tribeca Trib profiles the people who take care of the historic ships destined for the north side of Pier 25.

••• The farm at Battery Park has had to cope with pigeons, squirrels, and rats. (Tribeca Trib)

••• “Bureaucratic squabbling has delayed repairs for the lawn at West Thames Park, which is currently a big mud puddle.” (DNAinfo)

by Librado Romero for the New York Times

••• The New York Times writes about the “turkey-shaped” farm coming Battery Park. Maybe this part was in previous reports, but if so, I missed it: The fence is “made from the bamboo poles used in last year’s ‘Big Bambú’ installation on the roof garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The identical-twin artists Doug and Mike Starn donated them.” (The relevance of the Starns being twins is a bit hazy.)

••• Broadsheet Daily on this past weekend’s Downtown Little League opening day and parade: “Battery Park City chairman Bill Thompson and Authority president Gayle Horwitz addressed the crowd, as did Community Board 1 chair Julie Menin and DLL president Bill Martino, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and City Council member Margaret Chin.” Six speakers? Yikes.

••• Manhattan Loft Guy dissects a non-recent-but-still-notable sale at 101 Warren. If you’re fascinated by the real-estate market, you really need to be reading him.

••• Broadsheet Daily recaps Pier A. This was news to me (um, I don’t always read past the third paragraph of most news articles): “Nevertheless, the Poulakakos team indicated their commitment to public service with assurances that they would offer community groups the catering space free-of-charge during off-peak hours. In addition, they are planning an educational use of the pier’s north side. The New York Harbor School, based on Governors Island, will run an oyster farm with interpretive signage in that space. Mr. McDonald pointed out that the oysters were not going to be served, at least in the near future, to patrons of the oyster bar. Rather, they are meant to provide a contemporary demonstration of the role oysters have played in the history of New York harbor.”

••• DNAinfo profiles Korin.

••• “A trust connected to NBA basketball player Michael Dunleavy, Jr. has purchased a condo at 7 Hubert Street for $4.5 million, according to city records.” (Real Estate Weekly)

••• La Colombe Torrefaction’s Todd Carmichael was “the first American to reach the South Pole solo by foot, and in June, he’ll “attempt the first solo crossing of Death Valley.” (Esquire)

••• Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer appointed three new people to CB1: 25-year-old assistant D.A. Chow Xie, who lives in Tribeca; hedge-fund manager Paul Cantor, who lives in Tribeca; and Oliver Gray, who lives in… Stuyvesant Town? “Gray, 69, the final new member, has worked just two blocks from the World Trade Center site for the past nine years as associate director of DC 37, a public employees union with 125,000 members.” Nothing political about that appointment! (DNAinfo)

••• Tribeca is #10 in the New York Post‘s list of liquor-selling locations by zip code.

••• “The cash-strapped Parks Department will spend millions of dollars to dig up and move more than 10 Battery Park memorials, statues and sculptures—including ‘The Sphere,’ which has stood as a tribute to 9/11 victims—to gussy up a new bicycle path, The Post has learned.” The Post can work up outrage about the strangest things.

••• “At Oxfam America’s Hunger Feast served last month [at the Mercy Corps Action Center], most of the participants received only plates of rice, a staple for many in the world who are malnourished. A few diners, above, were treated to pasta and salad. They represented the fortunate people who eat well.” (Tribeca Trib)

••• “‘The Vertical Urban Factory,’ a small, intriguing show at the Skyscraper Museum in Battery Park City, makes you wonder what was lost on the way to our greener, more stroller- and bike-friendly city.” —New York Times art/architecture review.

••• “Craig Hatkoff, who started the Tribeca Film Festival with wife Jane Rosenthal, and Robert DeNiro, talks about the beginnings in 2001.” (Tribeca Trib)

••• “Tony Award nominee Patrick Wilson, who starred on Broadway in The Full Monty, will join songwriter David Yazbek April 11 at the 92YTribeca as part of the ‘Lyrics & Lyricists Downtown’ series.” (Playbill)

••• Mediabistro visits with Good Girls, “a branding/advertising company with a niche in working with entrepreneurial women” that just moved to Tribeca. Nasty Girls might have been a more intriguing name, but then I’m a Prince fan.

••• “The [Fulton Street] transit center is more than 50 percent done, and as for the specifics: steel is going up now, following the installation of Broadway’s 100-foot tower crane, and should be all done by the end of the year.” (Curbed)

••• “TF Cornerstone signed a 15-year lease to bring Potbelly Sandwich Shop, a Chicago culinary institution, to 2 Gold Street in the Financial District, the chain restaurant’s first New York location. Potbelly’s snapped up the last available retail space in the building, joining Pret-A-Manger, Goodburger, and Hot Clay Oven.” (The Real Deal, via Grub Street)

••• “Ed McFarland isn’t quite ready to open Caravelli’s, but when his kiosk in the World Financial Center debuts for the season on April 7, he’ll be offering something new: a lobster burger. The $15 sandwich is already served at Ed’s Lobster Bar on Lafayette Street, and McFarland describes it as “cooked lobster meat that is ground, it is mixed with a little clarified butter, salt, pepper, and chive. It is grilled and served on a sesame bun with spicy mayo, lettuce, tomato, and red onion.” The grilled yellowfin tuna sandwich and chilled seafood salad are other kiosk additions. Full menu here.” (Grub Street) The $25 deal for a lobster roll and a soda seems a bit rich given the lobster glut, no?

••• “This spring, the Battery Conservancy is launching its first-ever Urban Farm at the Battery, an enormous community garden that will stretch across 1 acre of the Great Lawn. [...] In a playful nod to Zelda the turkey, the park’s most famous resident, the farm will be shaped like a bird. Designer Scott Dougan crafted a bamboo fence to enclose the farm, which will trace out the contours of the beloved turkey, from beak to tail feathers.” (DNAinfo)

••• “The large wooden desk used by e.e. cummings has been installed at Poets House.” (DNAinfo)