The Riverhouse lobby has the hottest new amenity around: a merman. (Thanks to the reader who sent the photo in.)

You think?

I went to check out an apartment at 6 Varick (click the photo to see the listing) and I couldn’t resist asking the broker if I could take a photo of the top of Con Edison’s Leonard Street Substation. Click to enlarge.

If you try saying “23th,” it sort of sounds like Catalan sibilance.

Have you ever noticed the funny little remnant of a balcony in the window of Manhattan Mini Storage on Varick?

While we’re asking questions: Do you think the name was posted backward so they could remember where they work?