WHAT’S NEW IN BATTERY PARK
The funky stuff sprouting at Battery Park includes the pinwheel-shaped Dutch Pavilion (right, opening in two months), a cool relief map of 1660 New Amsterdam, and a molto sexy bench. Too bad about those trees, though….

IN THE NEWS
••• 3/3 roundup: Alleged Stuyvesant stupidity. Plus: BPC security outrage; smoking outdoors in BPC; helping Finn Square; the Hideaway; big families.
••• 3/4 roundup: Tiny’s chef, logo, name for upstairs bar. Plus: Update on racist Stuyesant students; 1 Rector Park; free beer; gay conference; too many events in BPC?; guide to pre-K registration.
••• 3/6 roundup: New ferries. Plus: Tom Duane on why we need a bus garage; Trinity wooing Pearson to Hudson Square; Save the Staircase; House of Relief hospital; Skylofts on sale; Taco Tuesday; real estate marketing; Michael Stipe.

GREENWICH SOUTH: AN UPDATE
Things are heating up: There’s Trinity Wall Street’s new community center, two restaurants coming to south of the World Trade Center, and the building that’s being demolished as part of the development of the old American Stock Exchange Building. (Above: a photo of 22 Thames, the building heading toward being demolished.)

WHAT’S UP THIS WEEK
Puppets, write-your-own obits, a Cuban chanteuse, and Joyce Carol Oates are just a few of the highlights on this week’s agenda.

12 TWEETS OF TRIBECA Welcome to Tweebeca, where the elements will have their way with you and you better not be eating cookies.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 3/3 roundup: Updates on WFC restaurants Caravelli’s pizzeria and Ed’s Lobster Bar cart. Plus: Deals for spa treatments, margaritas, and Tex-Mex food; two enthusiasms, one a lunch spot and the other a cookie.
••• 3/4 roundup: Strawberry closing. Plus: Deal at Cowgirl Sea-Horse (again); Project No. 8′s online sample sale; dates for the Tribeca Film Festival’s free movies at the World Financial Center plaza; clay imprints of baby hands.
••• 3/6 roundup: Pizza joint closing? Plus: Salaam Bombay deal; upcoming shopping mixer; cool art via Let There Be Neon; wine dinner; yarn art.
••• Congratulations to Smithers for correctly IDing last week’s Where in Tribeca…? (Although I couldn’t resist tweaking him a bit for the gloating.)

PHOTO SAFARI: BROOKLYN IS BURNING
This week: photos taken on Church, Broadway, River Terrace, Greenwich, Franklin Place (or maybe it was Cortlandt Alley?), and Beekman. One of them—not the one below—is proof that I have a dirtier mind than just about anyone.