• Thirteen sculptures by New York City artist Peter Coffin are up at City Hall Park, in an exhibit sponsored by the Public Art Fund. They’re black, one-inch-thick silhouettes of famous (to art history majors, anyway) sculptures by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Niki de St. Phalle, Sol LeWitt, and Louise Bourgeois. The three that most folks will recognize are Michelangelo’s David, an Easter Island Moai, and Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker. They’re up through May, 2010, and they should look even sharper when the park is blanketed in snow. We’re hoping to get the opportunity to ask Coffin a few questions.
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• Curbed said what we were thinking vis-à-vis the idea that North Tribeca should secede: “Down south ‘feels more like the financial district,’ says broker Raphael De Niro, who is really stabbing his dad in the back here, no? Little De Niro says North Tribeca is the next West Village, and he also heats up the rhetoric: ‘There’s a lot of new development in Tribeca, and a lot of it leaves a lot to be desired.’ To which Tribeca responded, “Uh, you sure you want to go there, big guy?”

• Metro discovered that new parents tend to become thrifty, and quoted two local residents (IDed with first names only) and Jennifer Cattaui, owner of Babesta. Cattui agreed with the general concept but said that “people don’t skimp on a Wu-Tang onesie.”

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