••• “The owners of Zuccotti Park delayed a cleanup scheduled for Friday morning, averting a feared showdown between the police and the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators” —New York Times

••• “Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters—emboldened by officials backing down this morning from evicting them from their Zuccotti Park campsite for a 7 a.m. cleaning—stormed Wall Street, leaping over barriers and getting into a fracas with cops.” —New York Post

••• “Penny Chaipis, an actress Off Off Broadway in the mid-1970s, and founder of a Tribeca travel agency next to where her late husband, Tom Chaipis, ran Magoo’s, a bar and restaurant, died Sept. 17 in the Allentown, Pennsylvania, hospital. She was 72.” (The Villager)

••• This item on some celebrity website called Digital Spy made me laugh out loud: “Laughing Man’s first coffee shop is scheduled to open in New York suburb Tribeca later this month.”

••• “With all the anguish over businesses leaving the World Financial Center, it’s nice to point out an entrepreneur who has returned. In January 1989, Dennis Corpora, a licensed optician, joined Optometric Arts in One World Financial Center. That business closed after 9/11. Mr. Corpora opened his own shop, Harborside Optical, just across the Hudson in the Harborside Financial Center. Still, he says, “My goal always was to get back to the World Financial Center, because I loved it here.” That goal became a reality in November, 2010 when he opened World Optical next to Ann Taylor.” —Broadsheet Daily

••• “One hopes that Conventional Wisdom has enough self-confidence to shrug off the many times that people just ignore it. Sales like that of the Manhattan loft #5W at 430 Greenwich Street might cause an insecure person to doubt themselves, after that loft found a buyer at a tiny discount from ask after sitting on the market for 6 months at the same price. (Conventional Wisdom, of course, is that a loft that has been professionally exposed to The Market for a few months needs a price change to attract a buyer.)” —Manhattan Loft Guy

••• The New York Times ran a review of managing editor (and Tribecan) Jill Abramson’s book about her dog. They hired an outsider to write it, as per usual, but what writer on earth is going to pan a book by the chief of the NYT? Maybe the author of Marley & Me can afford to piss important people off, but still….