••• “The 9/11 health bill sailed through both houses of Congress Wednesday afternoon and is poised to become law, following years of advocacy and down-to-the-wire negotiations this week with Republicans who threatened to block it.” (DNAinfo)

••• Video of Marc Forgione teaching kids to make duck prosciutto. (Grub Street)

••• “New York Downtown Hospital will close a dialysis unit that serves about 50 local residents as early as March.” (DNAinfo)

••• “The [Jewish Community Project] based at 146 Duane Street is bursting at the seams with the population explosion of children and parents in Tribeca, many who are Jewish. […] On December 15, [there was a]  “groundbreaking” at the site where J.C.P.’s facilities will expand, the east side of the second floor of the Carey Building on Chambers Street. Plans include classrooms, a gallery, a sacred space and a community hall with moveable walls for flexible configurations. The windows front Chambers, Church, and Reade Streets.” (Downtown Express)

••• “With a $45 milion price tag, 15,218 square feet of space, and a history as a corporate headquarters-turned-meditation center, it could have been FiDi’s craziest single-family mansion ever. What 70 Broad Street will be instead is pretty cool, too: headquarters for a Chinese construction company, with three apartments for executives upstairs. Nice digs, especially since the buyers got them at a major discount. Instead of paying the original asking price of $45 million, or even the much-reduced April price of $25.5 million, the Journal reports that the buyers paid only $18 million.” (Curbed)