••• FiDi restaurant SHO Shaun Hergatt is offering a $35 weeknight prix fixe. I’ve never been, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about the place; the sample menu looks delicious. (Eater)

••• “Developer Larry Silverstein will force the city to rent hundreds of thousands of feet of pricey office space at the new tower on the World Trade Center site when it opens in 2014. Under an agreement negotiated in 2006 with the Port Authority, city and state, Silverstein had the option of requiring the city to lease 582,000 square feet of space in the new Tower 4. In a move that will cost the city upwards of $32 million a year, Silverstein has now chosen to exercise that option, Andrew Brent, a spokesman for the mayor, confirmed.” (DNAinfo) Given the amount of security the WTC area will require, they should just move police headquarters there.

••• Fashion designer Lela Rose—who lives in Tribeca—talks to the Wall Street Journal about her kitchen and food and stuff like that.

••• “In welcome news for Brookfield’s World Financial Center, Oppenheimer Funds has made a long-term commitment to remaining at 2 WFC, where it just signed a new, 235,000 square-foot lease.” (New York Post)

••• “Developer Peter Moore is facing a $4.7 million foreclosure suit after allegedly defaulting at a residential loft project at 465 Washington Street in Tribeca.” (The Real Deal)

••• “The law firm WilmerHale is said to be in talks for a roughly 200,000 square foot lease at 7 World Trade Center.” (Real Estate Weekly; hat tip to @LMCCC)

••• Ever wanted to see Corton chef Paul Liebrandt cuddle with puppies? Eater has a photo for you. (As I commented there, it makes me think he’s going to find some new way to cook them.)