In the News: View Diligence

••• Inspired by yesterday’s post about the new building planned for Varick and N. Moore, Manhattan Loft Guy looks at which buildings’ views will be affected (the moral: do your “view diligence”).

••• Super Linda will open Monday, for real this time. —Eater

••• “To coincide with the re-exhibition of [James] Rosenquist’s [86-foot-long artwork “F-111” at MoMA], often considered a cornerstone of the Pop-art movement, Vanity Fair visited the artist at his Tribeca home […]. Arriving at the Rosenquist town house (white façade, turquoise trim), one immediately notices a sign over the six buzzers at the front door: RING ANY BELL. ‘Isn’t that fun?’ the artist will later say. ‘I own the whole building!'”

••• “Battery Park City’s Irish Hunger Memorial is badly leaking. Just 10 years after it was built, the quarter-acre plot covered in rocks, grass and bushes from Ireland will get a major overhaul.” —Tribeca Trib

••• “It’s 1952 on the N.Y Central Railroad for Gerry Weinstein and two friends who are carefully building a section of the Hudson line in a Tribeca Loft.” Keeps ’em off drugs, presumably. —Tribeca Trib

••• “Built in 1997 against the fervent ob­jections of neighbors in the adjoining building, the penthouse at 155 Franklin St. was something of a rarity, a 2,200-square-foot “rooftop mezzanine” […]. The structure has a new and dubious distinction: it is falling apart. An entirely rebuilt and redesigned structure is up for city approval.” —Tribeca Trib

••• Tribeca resident Robert Moore is a Big Apple Greeter. —Broadsheet

 

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