• Rachael Ray, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn showed up at P.S. 89/I.S. 289 to trumpet changes being made to school-lunch menus. Reports the New York Times, “The city’s school cafeterias have substituted whole grain pasta for the white pasta. Many of the children told Ms. Ray they already eat it at home. (This is Tribeca after all.)”

• Blockshopper reports on two sales in the neighborhood: “Bree Williamson sold condo #3A at 303 Greenwich St. for $650,000 to Brian Lam on Sept. 22. Williamson, who paid $850,000 for the property in March 2008, is a Canadian actress known for her role as Jessica Buchanan on One Life to Live.” She paid $990,000 for a condo in Central Harlem on Sept. 23.” And then there’s this: “Ajaypal Singh Banga and Ritu Banga bought condo #4DS at 275 Greenwich St. for $705,000 from Bernard Chua on Sept. 15. Banga has served as the president and chief operating officer at MasterCard Worldwide Inc. since August. He previously spent 13 years with Citibank, where he most recently served as the CEO of Citi Asia Pacific.”

• The New York Times dismisses Roger Rosenblatt’s The Oldsmobiles, currently up at the Flea Theater: “Over all The Oldsmobiles feels more disappointing because of the first-rate talent involved. Had the script been submitted blindly to a random theater, it would have probably been returned for a rewrite. Better yet, it might have been condensed into an amusing 15-minute play, one that ends while it’s still in fairly good health.”

• Additions to 92YTribeca‘s November film schedule: actor Ben Foster and director Oren Moverman screen their new film, The Messenger, about an Iraq War vet assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service (Nov. 9, $12); several installments in Cinema Tropical’s Ten Years of New Argentine Cinema series, including Silvia Prieto (Nov. 12, $12), Mundo Grúa (Nov. 14, $12), and La Cienága (Nov. 14, $12); and New York Film in the 1970s, a program of four short films from the New York Public Library archive—Bowery Men’s Shelter, Crosby Street, Huberts, and Coney Island (Nov. 18, free).

• A gratuitous photo of Frank Gehry’s Beekman Tower, now that the ridges (is that what we’re calling them? Creases? Crinkles?) are becoming more pronounced.