••• VBS.tv video of Locanda Verde chef Andrew Carmellini visiting a bunch of restaurants (via Eater)

••• Exactly what is going on where at the WTC site. (Tribeca Trib)

••• “The ongoing crisis over school overcrowding in Lower Manhattan led Community Board 1’s Youth and Education Committee to frame a resolution in April calling on the Department of Education to identify a site as quickly as possible for the new school it has promised to build Downtown. This resolution, which was passed later in the month by the full board of CB1, also contained a provision calling on the DOE to create an ‘incubator for the new school—which has not yet been designed, named or funded’—in its headquarters, the Tweed building [left] on Chambers Street.” (Broadsheet Daily)

••• The New York Times reviews The Infidel and Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, both of which will be at Tribeca Cinemas.

••• “Jessica Alba set off the fire alarm at Tribeca’s Smyth Hotel when she tried to heat up fish sticks in her room.” (New York)

••• New York magazine speaks with several Tribeca chefs and restaurateurs—Jean-Georges Vongerichten (Matsugen), Richie Notar (Nobu), Kurt Gutenbrunner (Blaue Gans), Paul Liebrandt (Corton)—about diners taking photos of their food.

••• The New York Times includes Griff’s Gelato’s pie-on-a-stick in its roundup of impaled frozen treats.