••• “Masaharu Morimoto’s new NYC restaurant, located in the former Dennis Foy space [right], will be called Tribeca Canvas. The name refers to the painted canvas that Thomas Shoos [Schoos. —Ed], the spot’s designer, will drape across the ceiling and the walls. Unlike the chain of restaurants that bear the chef’s name, this one won’t serve sushi or sashimi but, rather,  Morimoto’s version of comfort food, utilizing traditional Japanese technique to prep Asian and Western ingredients. It will also cater to the late-night crowd—grub will be available until 4 a.m. nightly. Expect dishes like onion gratin soup dumplings and chicken pot-pie when Tribeca Canvas launches sometime in December (310 Church St.).” (Zagat via Eater)

••• Maserati of Manhattan looks closer to opening. Plus: dissing 40 Gold. (Curbed)

••• “Since its inauguration in the last couple of years as the epicenter of young yuppie families, marketers, developers and other real estate types in the Financial District have sought to mold it as all the more a toddler-oriented mecca, a sort of southern Tribeca for clans that can afford it. Stuff like the $4.5 million Imagination Playground and good public schools continue to attract families, not to speak of the perks anyone can enjoy: safe, European-feeling streets that are quiet as soon as the closing bell rings. But what about the young single holdouts? Well, they’re having fun holding down the fort. After all, 4-year-olds are not enjoying a roof-deck with bar. And someone has to meet all those single doctors and bankers.” [The point of the article appears to be that there are single people living in FiDi.] (New York Observer)

••• Tribeca residents Karin and Alan Wilzig are among the folks the New York Times mentions in a long article about big, expensive aquariums (aquaria?). This did lead to the tweet of the day, in my book: “Mystery of why I never meet any fellow Tribeca residents solved: They’re all tripping out to their fucking fish tanks!”

••• Graphic designer Katherine Rasmussen fake-shops for “nautical design” for the New York Times, and stops at New York Nautical on Duane and the South Street Seaport Museum gift shop. The House & Home section had water on the brain today….

••• Time.com has video from “inside the Park51 mosque” that seems to be more interested in a white woman who converted. Also: “Construction workers at the World Trade Center are wearing their opposition to a nearby mosque and community center on their hard hats, and several said they would refuse to build the proposed facility.” (DNAinfo) And this: “A pair of East Village residents are hoping their tiny, two-person protest campaign in favor of plans for an Islamic community center and mosque near the World Trade Center will help stem what they see as a rising tide of bigoted opposition.” I love young people! (Tribeca Trib)