NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: PRIME ESSENTIALS
Prime Essentials’ first store opened yesterday afternoon. It’s a little Macy’s, a little Bed Bath & Beyond, a little Duane Reade, a little Whole Foods, a little corner deli….

ANOTHER STARBUCKS?
You know what this neighborhood needs? More coffee. (Commenters on Facebook have informed me that my sarcasm was misplaced—so obviously I’ve blocked them from commenting again.)

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: PATRON OF THE NEW
“I wanted a store that created dreams,” says Al Abayan, who just opened Patron of the New (right). “Sure, there are fancy expensive clothes, but there’s also $10 mosquito spray. There can be anything as long as it’s the right taste level.”

IN THE NEWS
••• 4/25 roundup: Candy raid (seriously). Plus: Manhattan Youth is hard up; tall ships rotting; a funny cartoon.
••• 4/26 roundup: 9/11 documentary by a 14-year-old Lower Manhattan filmmaker. Plus: Farmer’s market expansion; funky staircase; Conrad in progress; Trump Soho restaurant disintegration; Anne Frank tree delay; Calatrava cost rising”; baby falcons.
••• 4/27 roundup: Drop that bag! Counterfeit-bag buyers might start getting penalized. Plus: Battery Place Market coming to GS complex; Don Hill’s closing (for real this time); 3.1 Phillip Lim moving to Hudson Square; beer garden unlikely; 99 Reade.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 4/25 roundup: Arbitrage. Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon watch in effect! Plus: Deals on Puffy’s and art books; 55 Warren.
••• 4/26 roundup: Pop-up gallery. Plus: Discounted tickets to the Tribeca Film Festival; Worth Kitchen’s Cinco de Mayo dinner.

MANHATTAN TYPES
“I’m a sucker for typography in the street,” says Tribeca photographer Ellinor Stigle. The breadth of fonts (and the moods they evoke) is fascinating, even though some of them have been around for decades, and possibly longer.