THE “BITE ME” BILLBOARD
“Do you know anything about the huge new advertisement on the corner of West Broadway and Warren that’s basically a close-up of a woman’s cleavage?” emailed Hope Flamm. Bon Appétit explained what it was thinking. (Smithers, meanwhile, had this to say: “I wish the building was wider.”)

UPDATE: PRIME ESSENTIALS
I spoke with Josh Rahmani, the affable CEO of Prime Essentials, which is opening its first store at 88 Leonard. Here’s what I learned….

WHAT’S UP THIS WEEK
Cowboy Junkies, climate-change refugees, and Mary Tyler Moore’s bra—there’s video!—are just a few of the highlights on this week’s agenda. The full calendar is here.

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: COLOR ME MINE
“I love art,” says Yanping Chen, owner of the new Color Me Mine Tribeca on Reade. “I appreciate all different kinds of art, especially art that has individual character.”

IN THE NEWS
••• 2/3 roundup: Conrad rooftop bar. Plus: World Financial Center redo; smoking ban in city parks; blind attraction; P.S. 234 kindergarten lottery; Carmine’s not happening; new buildings going on sale; City Winery owner’s loft; half-marathon gets dissed; Pussycat Lounge.
••• 2/4 roundup: Sex-trade chart. Plus: Paul Liebrandt documentary; the Flea reviewed; mysterious mid-river work; a profile of Lot-Less.
••• 2/5 roundup: FiDi rebound. Plus: New tenant for old Goldman Sachs building; Condé Nast lease getting closer; Park51 imam leaves; Super Bowl cookie forecast.

WHAT’S IN STORE FOR W. BROADWAY?
A big chunk of storefront at 40 Worth—a.k.a. 220 Church—has been freed up (at the expense of that strange mock supermarket). Now what?

33 VESTRY UNVEILED
Well, partially. At least we can get a much better sense of what the façade is going to end up looking like. (“Apparently it’s going to look like it’s permanently under construction,” commented Jim.)

ARTS & SCIENCES PROJECTS
“We think of it as a curatorial space,” says Philip Tomaru, cofounder of Arts & Sciences Projects. “We don’t necessarily have a commercial intent.”

SEEN & HEARD
••• Congratulations to LuckySod for correctly IDing last week’s Where in Tribeca…?
••• Last week’s photo safari included the one below of a Robert Mango artwork (his window is reflecting the buildings across Duane Park). I can’t be the only person who didn’t think that was a leg at first….