HELP A TRIBECAN: WEDDING-PHOTO BACKDROPS
“I’m getting married at Thalassa in November and wanted to see if you or anyone on your staff could help me come up with photo locations to take my wedding pictures.” OK, staff, let’s get thinking….

MORE ON KUTSHER’S TRIBECA
A prominent investor in Kutsher’s Tribeca reveals his involvement and dishes on how the “modern Jewish bistro” came to be, who else is investing, why they chose Tribeca, why the restaurant won’t be strictly Kosher, and more.

DAMON DASH IS LEAVING DUANE STREET
In fact, he may be gone already.

IN THE NEWS
••• 6/13: Milk Street Café. Plus: East River ferry launches; Bill Thompson declares his candidacy; Civil Service Bookshop; picnic purveyor.
••• 6/14: Mass closings at the World Financial Center mall. Plus: Compose upheaval; CB1 spurned at 9/11 ceremony; Hudson Square hotel.
••• 6/15: 9/11 Memorial “Community Evenings.” Plus: Reality-TV restaurant closed after one month; Whole Foods cashier says she was fired for being pregnant; City Hall bike path outrage; Pier 15; New York by Gehry; Fulton Street Transit Center pix; Rector Square.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: AMERICAN ICON
When I noticed something named American Icon (left) was opening at 360 Broadway, I figured it was another jeans store. But no!

SEEN & HEARD
••• 6/13: Maxwell’s is opening next week. Plus: Josephine’s dinner menu; toga party; Crewcuts; Nixtamalito Taqueria report.
••• 6/14: 83 Franklin. Plus: Shake Shack “C-line”; White & Church; Dis Respectacles; Stuart Elster’s drawings; sports bar; ExerBlast deal; Tribeca Furniture Outlet.
••• 6/15: White & Church now opening Friday with “cocktails and bites.” Plus: Cigar shop closed; Gary Graham sample sale; “Catch Me If You Can” event; a missing portrait.

LOFT PEEPING: YOON KIM
If at first you don’t succeed, redecorate! Tribeca investor Yoon Kim (right) traded ’70s Pop for stripped-down “retro-futuristic bachelor pad,” with a hanging bed swathed in mink. It’s from the July issue of Architectural Digest.

NOSY NEIGHBOR: WHY ARE THE WINDOWS ABOVE PONTE’S BOARDED UP?
“When I was walking in the Hudson River Park the other evening, I noticed for the first time that windows above Ponte’s are boarded up. What’s going on in there?” —Adam