••• “The owners of the massive four-tower World Financial Center complex in Lower Manhattan are slated to unveil on Tuesday plans for a major overhaul of the complex’s retail and a remake of its eastern entranceway and signature Winter Garden indoor plaza. But even before the design of the $200 million-plus project has been widely released, the owners, Brookfield Properties, have hit a possible snag. The firm faces resistance to its plan to remove the Winter Garden’s sprawling marble staircase. City Planning Commission chairwoman Amanda Burden has objected to designs for the revamped plaza, and community members fear the loss of an iconic space that once led to a bridge to the old World Trade Center before it was destroyed.” (Wall Street Journal)

••• DNAinfo has an update on Fiterman Hall, the BMCC building going up at W. Broadway and Park Place.

••• “Lower Manhattan’s Community Board 1 has backed the owners of the I.M. Pei-designed tower at 88 Pine Street in the struggle to preserve the building’s pristine sidewalk from the destructive forces of old-fashioned print media [a newsstand].” (Curbed)

••• I missed this when it was posted in mid-September: eight photos of a butter warehouse turned loft. (Casa Sugar)

••• “The living room that looks like a lounge. The billiards table. The wacky home theater hatch. The stainless steel kitchen that shows zero wear and tear. The completely neglected second bedroom. The action figures. We’d call this 4,000-square-foot loft at Tribeca’s 71 Murray Street the ultimate mancave, but look at all those windows! Records show the condo was purchased in 2003 for $2.2 million by Fahd Mumtaz—perhaps this guy?—and now it’s back on the market for a manly $5.95 million.” (Curbed)

••• That fierce townhouse designed by Ghislaine Viñas Interior Design has urinals for the three boys who live there. (Interior Design; photo by Eric Laignel)

••• HotelChatter gets some deets on Toro, the new basement bar under Plein Sud: “Cocktails are priced around $12-$16 and will be influenced by Southern France so expect infused concoctions with fennel, lavender and orange zest and fruits such as figs, melons and blood orange. The lounge will also pay homage to the town of Arles in the Camargue region of Southern France which shares the Spanish tradition of bull fighting, hence the name but also the black leather and red fabrics and the authentic matadors’ capes draped along the rear wall. Toro will be open Monday–Friday from 5pm to 2am and on Saturday from 8pm to 2am. It will be closed on Sundays. Kardashian spottings not guaranteed.” Given that the place is likely to have a dudes-on-the-prowl clientele, the theme (in bullfighting, the bulls are killed) is kind of amusing.