9/25 News: This Is Not Cool

courtesy-curbedby-elizabeth-felicella-courtesy-poets-house• Très chic floral designer Flora has moved from Soho to 85 Franklin (bet. Church and Broadway). More on Flora later, but if you’re in the area stop by and check out its supercool interior.

• Vandals have attacked the new LentSpace art park on Canal, reports Curbed, spray-painting “This is not art” on one of the pieces. Classy.

• Battery Park City’s Poets House (right) is opening today at 11 a.m. Robin Pogrebin of the New York Times popped by for an early visit: “Glass walls surround the entryway—in which a Calder mobile floats—and enclose the second-floor exhibition space. The blocklong second-floor reading room offers views of trees and water and is punctuated by nooks and a quiet reading space—no talking aloud—with photographs on the walls of contemporary poets taken by Lynn Saville. The center—which expects to achieve LEED gold certification from the United States Green Building Council—features a beechwood floor from a Pennsylvania sustainable forest in the public programs room. It seats 105 and opens onto a courtyard designed by the landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, which can accommodate additional seating.”

by-liz-steger-courtesy-trattoria-cinqueanbar-shoes-by-tribeca-citizen• Trattoria Cinque starts serving brunch this weekend from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Additions to the regular menu include brunch pizzas (including one with scrambled eggs, mozzarella, and pancetta, left), porchetta eggs Benedict, and Panettone French Toast stuffed with sheep’s milk ricotta. Also, owner Russell Bellanca did a Q&A with AM New York.

• Anbar Shoes, the Reade Street discount store, has closed for good.

The Real Deal gets the scoop on SkyLofts (at 145 Hudson): “The Tribeca developer who was forced to rebuild two duplex penthouse units in his landmarked mixed-use project Sky Lofts, is moving forward with plans to convert four more floors in the building at 145 Hudson Street at Hubert Street to residences from commercial condominium units, city records show…. The development, which lies in the Tribeca West Historic District, has struggled through a series of challenges. In 2005, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission forced the developer to tear down two luxury rooftop penthouse condo units after they were ruled to be seven feet too tall, and the residential sales were initially very slow. But ultimately sales improved. One of the penthouses sold in February for $30 million.”

 

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