LOFT PEEPING: LOFT TOUR PREVIEW #1
The 13th-annual Inside Tribeca Loft Tour, benefiting Friends of Duane Park, is Sunday, Oct. 14 (1–5 p.m.). If you haven’t bought tickets yet, this luscious eight-bedroom apartment will surely inspire you. Right: Part of the playroom.

UPCOMING POP-UP: “TOP CHEF” KITCHEN
Coming to Tribeca next month: A restaurant with “Top Chef” contestants rotating in and out of the kitchen. It’s already sold out, but wanna bet there’ll be last-minute openings?

IN THE NEWS
••• 9/24: Rally against rape. Plus: Accused rapist attempts suicide; Bubby’s is closing its Dumbo location; the owners of Greenwich Jewelers; 69 Murray; P.S. 150′s principal; Battery Park City Block Party; unleashed dogs in Battery Park.
••• 9/25: Mental-health professionals in Hudson River Park? Plus: Subway attack; loft with razzle-dazzle; the 7-Eleven scourge; smushy caramels; Dirty Old 1970′s New York City.
••• 9/26: Yet another three-star restaurant in Tribeca. Plus: No money yet for the Lower Manhattan Performing Arts Center; artist Laurie Spiegel; new condo among first-time Open House New York sites.

NOSY NEIGHBOR: DO NEWSPAPER BOXES NEED PERMITS?
“They seem to become eyesores—covered with graffiti, trash, broken plastic doors, stickers, etc. Do they need permission from the city to plop them down wherever? And do building owners have a right to ask them to be removed?” —Miriam Here’s your answer.

ON THE CB1 AGENDAS FOR OCTOBER
What’s being discussed: Help for Hudson River Park; signage for the new Pier 17; Fish Market buildings; school overcrowding report; new Hudson Square school; ballfield permits; South Street Seaport Museum’s future; the “Jenga Building” at 56 Leonard; Fulton Center update; much more.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 9/24: Capri Caffé has a new name. Plus: Battery Park City Authority board meeting; “Blue Bloods” filming here; Scorcese’s 80′s movie shooting on a North Cove Marina boat; dog alert.
••• 9/25: New furniture store. Plus: More on Sole di Capri (née Capri Caffé); inside 5 Beekman; Tribeca music video.
••• 9/26: Street photography contest (including a pic I might submit). Plus: Local husband-and-wife artists’ exhibit; Sole di Capri’s new phone number; planting at Bowling Green.

IS SOMETHING BUGGING YOU?
Do something about it! But if you’re going to complain, you might as well do it effectively. Otherwise, what’s the point? Three recent case studies.