Photo by Curbed

••• Curbed checks out Truffles Tribeca‘s finished courtyard and roof deck—and notes the compound’s convenience store.

••• “School crowding is becoming more acute at P.S. 89. The planned class configuration for the term that begins in September calls for each grade, from kindergarten through fifth, to have three classes, except for the third grade, which will have four classes of 28 or more students per class. The fourth grade will have three classes of 32 students each. According to the Department of Education website, the average size of a fourth-grade class for all of District 2 (which includes P.S. 89) during the school year that just ended was 24 students.” (Broadsheet Daily)

••• The area did poorly in New York magazine‘s Cheap Eats roundup, with a few exceptions. In a roundup of markets: “On New Amsterdam Market days (monthly July and August, weekly September 12 to December 19), the Underground Gourmet likes to leg it down to the Seaport and slurp up some Bent Spoon sorbet, or tuck into something sustainably beefy or porky from Marlow & Daughters (chili come fall, we hope), while stocking up on exotica like Finnish ruis bread and spelt linguine.” Also Terroir Tribeca was honored in the Year in Meatballs: “Exquisitely soft and airy, Marco Canora’s veal-ricotta meatballs have always been among the best; now he serves them on a toasted baguette.” And Frites ‘N’ Meats made the list of top food trucks: “You’ll be tempted to order an “American Kobe” burger ($7.50), but the cheaper ($5.50) grass-fed Angus is plenty thick and juicy enough.”

••• “Bank of New York Mellon is considering a complex, three-way real estate maneuver that would include moving part of its operations to 1 World Trade Center and selling its historic Art Deco headquarters tower at 1 Wall St., sources said. Under the scenario now being explored, the bank […] would take 450,000 square-feet at 1 WTC, the 1,776-foot tower the Port Authority is building at Ground Zero. It would move the rest of its New York workforce to another building it owns, 101 Barclay St.—a 1983 structure with 1.2 million square-feet more suited to modern office use than 1 Wall St., an Art Deco masterpiece on the corner of Broadway that opened in 1930.” […] “The landmarked 1 Wall St. is a logical candidate for residential conversion, with spectacular views up to 50 floors. It has more open views than the old AIG building at 70 Pine St., which AIG recently sold to a developer planning to convert part of the tower to apartments.” (New York Post)

••• Some people buy apartments based on the nearby schools, and hire educational consultants to help them. And the city sometimes makes developers help pay for new schools. (New York Times)