••• “One of New York’s urban mysteries has been solved thanks to Nick Carr of built history blog Scouting NY, now reporting for the Wall Street Journal. The story captures a vintage oddity hanging out on the roof of 77 Water Street: a rusted out, World War I airplane, including abbreviated runway.” (Curbed; photo by Rob Bennett, courtesy the Wall Street Journal)

••• “The Hot New Hood” in New York City is FiDi, says Condé Nast Traveler, due to the 9/11 memorial, 1WTC, and the Danny Meyer restaurants. The article includes the bizarre claim that “Even New Yorkers forget that the history of the area did not begin in 2001.” Anyway, there’s nothing here we don’t know—except that the name of Death & Co.’s upcoming bar at 90 Broad will be called Demimonde. (Always thought that would be a great drag name….)

••• “One year after Helene Zucker Seeman, a Battery Park City resident and highly regarded community leader, was killed by a drunk driver at her weekend home in New Jersey, her family is still waiting for justice.” The driver was actress Amy Locane. (Broadsheet Daily)

••• “Clipper City won’t fully relocate to Tribeca’s Pier 25 as planned, according to its operator, Manhattan By Sail. The steel schooner […] will continue to operate out of Pier 17 in the South Street Seaport at least a few days a week, according to Manhattan By Sail President Tom Berton. Berton hopes to be able to operate the Clipper part-time out of Pier 25 in order to take passersby on sailing trips into the harbor and coordinate dockside activities with Manhattan Youth and other local organizations. The sailing ship has already made three or four trips to the pier in the last month, Berton noted, but has run into some logistical snags with respect to docking at the pier.” (Downtown Express)

••• “Deron Charkoudian, 34, who lives and works in the Financial District, is the newest member of Community Board 1. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer appointed Charkoudian to fill a vacancy created when board member Rebecca Skinner resigned because she was moving away. Since 1999, Charkoudian has lived in an office building converted to residential use.” (Downtown Express)

••• Basketball City is scheduled to open on Pier 36 in November. (Bowery Boogie, via Curbed)

••• “During a one hour time period selected, between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., IBTimes observed a Barnes & Noble store in the Tribeca area store. In that time frame, 24 customers purchased a product according to the unofficial count. That’s compared to approximately 150 people that walked in and out of the store during that time period. Among the most interesting observations was the amount of women that came in with young children. During the one hour time period, 48 women, some mothers and some nannies, came into the 36,000 square feet store. The majority wheeled in strollers with children under the age of five along for the ride. Most striking was that only six of the 48 women that came in actually bought anything.”