••• “Fire struck The Hideaway, a small Tribeca restaurant-bar at 185 Duane Street, early Saturday morning. The establishment was closed for the night and no one in the five apartments above it were injured as firefighters managed to find the source of the heavy smoke condition in the restaurant and contain it before it spread. The fire began in the floor between the basement and ground floor, but the cause has not been determined, according to a Fire Department spokesman. […] ‘It seems like a little electrical fire that happened just below he bar,’ said Ana Kostakos, the manager, who inspected the damage the next morning. ‘It looks a lot worse because [the firefighters] destroyed the place.'” Um, you’re welcome? (Tribeca Trib)

••• “The New York Academy of Art […] is not the kind of institution you would expect to get into trouble for mischief on Facebook. Yet the school recently received a stern warning from the site: ‘You uploaded a photo that violates our Terms of Use, and this photo has been removed.’ […] Yet the image—an ink-on-paper drawing of a woman’s naked upper body by Steven Assael—was hardly racy.” Facebook realized its error. (The New York Times)

••• In an article advising where actors should stay and eat while shooting their current films, Condé Nast Traveler suggests that Robert De Niro and Jake Gyllenhaal dine at Dans le Noir?, but they may want to skip that suggestion, seeing as how the restaurant canceled its plans to open on Franklin back in early January. (I think the joke was supposed to be that no one would bother them there because the restaurant was to have no lights.) The magazine also suggests they stay at the new Mondrian Soho instead of the Greenwich Hotel, which De Niro co-owns.

••• The NYC Nomad (“Have Bed. Need Floor. I live in a different neighborhood, with different people, every week”) crashed in Tribeca recently, dining and drinking at Terroir Tribeca, the Harrison, the Brandy Library, the Odeon, Takahachi Bakery, and Il Matto, and exercising a bit of it off at Do Yoga Do Pilates.

••• Tribecans Kiran and Fahd Mumtaz have an oval media room they call the Egg. The bigger article is about the dubious trend of “man caves,” and I assume the Egg is oval-shaped on the outside. (New York Post)