••• “Workers at the World Trade Center site on Tuesday accidentally unearthed part of an 18th-century ship that had been undisturbed for more than 200 years. A 30-foot length portion of a wooden hull was discovered by workers still intact, 20 to 30 feet below street level, in the morning.” (DNAinfo)

••• Adeline Adeline (left) gets a ton of visual coverage in the Wall Street Journal—too bad the piece was a navel-gazer about what it’s like to bike to work.

••• “Bill Keller, a televangelist from Florida, announced Monday that he is building a $1 million Christian center in lower Manhattan in response to the Cordoba Initiative’s plans for a 13-story mosque and community center there. ‘If they can put a mosque near Ground Zero, we should be able to put a Christian center near Ground Zero and give people a choice,’ Keller told DNAinfo in a phone interview Tuesday morning. He called the Islamic center ‘a spit in the face of the people of New York.'” That’s the last I’ll write about that. (Related: The Islamic project is now being called Park51, which sounds to me like a hotel.)

••• “A colorful piano that had been one of the 60 that were scattered across the city for the ‘Play Me, I’m Yours’ public art project has moved to Broad Street under an agreement between the artists who created it and the Downtown Alliance. All the other pianos disappeared after the art project ended on July 5, but the Downtown Alliance arranged to keep one for lower Manhattan until Aug.1 in exchange for assigning crews to keep an eye on it. Broad Street had not been one of the original locations included in the art installation.” (DNAinfo)

••• The New York Times stopped by Cercle Rouge on Bastille Day.

••• François Payard is opening a bakery on Houston in late summer. It’s not Tribeca but I think it’s good to know there’s sustenance up there. (Grub Street)

••• Pink News, “Europe’s Largest Gay News Service,” reported that Brazilian soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo “partied” with Lance Bass of N’Sync: “The pair were photographed dining out together in Tribeca, New York’s gay district, last Friday night.” Time to brush up on gay New York, guys.