LOFT PEEPING: JENNIFER & KEVIN FISHER
New York Cottages & Gardens featured the Tribeca apartment of jewelry and fur designer Jennifer Fisher, her husband, Kevin, and their two kids. Brace yourself for python vinyl and bare breasts!

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL: AT&T LONG LINES PLAZA
The AT&T Long Lines Building is a monstrous dead spot in an otherwise thriving community — and there’s nothing we can do about that. Its public/private plaza, however, is an opportunity waiting to happen.

IN THE NEWS
••• 8/2: Pressed sandwiches. Plus: Mafioso co-author; South End car crackdown; Shaun Hergatt officially leaves; Karkula in the country.
••• 8/3: Is Pier 40 to be closed in stages? Plus: 1 World Trade Center tops out; Gehry penthouse views; food-truck hootenanny tomorrow; 66 Leonard.
••• 8/5: Triburbia in the Times twice (a review and a trend piece). Plus: The atmosphere inside Dakota Roadhouse; Stuyvesant principal resigns.

WHERE IN TRIBECA…?
Congratulations to J Allen for correctly IDing last week’s Where in Tribeca…? photo. (Click the link to see the answer.) We’ll play again Friday at 8 a.m.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 8/3: World Party. Plus: Greenmarket clam bake; Blue Marble ice cream; Battery bike path; David Mitchell; the topper at 93 Worth.

RECENT REAL ESTATE SALES IN TRIBECA
Sixteen sales were recorded in the past two weeks—including a long-closed storefront and a high-profile penthouse (for $13.7 million).

MY OWN LITTLE “METROPOLITAN DIARY”
I seem to have a lot of odd/amusing interactions, perhaps because I’m often walking around the neighborhood, either to exercise my dog or my blog. I keep a sort of journal about the ones that amuse me—akin to the New York Times’s “Metropolitan Diary,” but less fit for print.