••• How Ron Silver Bubby’s made “fuckin” an acceptable word to use in Japanese advertising. —Gawker

••• “A man dialed 911 Monday night to confess to killing his girlfriend — and minutes later, cops found her dead in a Bronx apartment, apparently from head trauma, police sources said. Cops are hunting the suspect, who fled after making calls from two pay phones in Tribeca. He called 911 at about 6:42 p.m. from a pay phone at Church and Warren Sts.” —New York Daily News

••• “Atlantic publishing director Margaret Stead has bought a debut novel […] titled Triburbia. The debut is by US writer Karl Taro Greenfeld, already the author of four non-fiction titles including a memoir of growing up with an autistic brother, Boy Alone. […]
Stead said the novel explores the lives of a group of fathers whose children all attend the local school.” —The Bookseller

••• “A 48,180-square-foot mixed-use building at 358 Broadway and Franklin Street in Tribeca will hit the foreclosure auction block Feb. 1, according to data from PropertyShark.com, with a lien amount of $26.8 million.” —The Real Deal

••• “150 Nassau Street mini-loft sells at about 2004 pricing.” —Manhattan Loft Guy

••• “Actress Jennifer Connelly put her Tribeca Penthouse”—that capital P makes one imagine a special issue of a certain magazine—”on the market, according to reports.” —DNAinfo; Curbed has the listing

••• Eater picks through the wine list at Jungsik: “Considering the circumstances, Kyungmoon [Kim] has put together a fine list. But taken in the context of other NYC lists of its size, it doesn’t distinguish itself in any way.”