••• Celebrities spotted in Tribeca! Entertainmentwise caught Katy Perry and Russell Brand, and Gossipcenter saw Matthew McConaughey; all were on Greenwich Street. Do you ever feel like anyone can start a website, post a bunch of celeb pix, and expect the world? Oh, wait….

••• The James, that new-build hotel at Grand and Sixth, will open September 1. (HotelChatter)

••• “Just heard David Rockwell’s Imagination Playground near South Street Seaport is opening July 27.” (DNAinfo‘s JulieShapiro)

••• “Developer of 225 Rector Place sued for fraud.” (Broadsheet Daily)

••• “A 40-foot-long iguana that once graced the roof of the Lone Star Café at Fifth Avenue and 13th Street and then found a home on Manhattan Youth’s Pier 25, is now in Austin, Texas, where, last week, it was ‘suspended from the undercarriage of a helicopter, dipping toward board members of the Fort Worth Zoo,’ according to The New York Times.” (Broadsheet Daily)