In the News: Statue of Liberty Security Screening

••• “The advertising company Droga5 is joining a long list of creative companies jumping into office space downtown. The firm, which is in the process of launching an innovative ad campaign for the New Museum, is in talks to take three floors at 120 Wall St. for rents in the $30s per square foot. That’s a steep discount from midtown south, where the company is currently located and where per square foot rents have skyrocketed into the $60s and beyond on soaring demand and low vacancy rates.” —Crain’s

11northmoore-windows••• 11 N. Moore will have really big windows. —Curbed (photo courtesy Curbed)

••• “Starting this summer, the security screening for passengers traveling to the Statue of Liberty will be moved from Battery Park to Ellis Island, officials announced Friday.” —DNAinfo

••• The NYPD, naturally, opposes the plan. —New York Times

••• “Artists Space’s Books & Talks venue, which opened in Tribeca last year, […] will present its first fully fledged exhibition. On the evening of May 10, it opens ‘Documenting Cadere: 1972–1978,’ which looks at the life and travels of the Polish-born artist André Cadere (1934–78), who’s best known for the thin, striped cylindrical sculptures he called Barres de Bois Rond—’round bars of wood.'” —Gallerist

••• It looks like Esoteric, which you may recall from this Nosy Neighbor post, has left 37 Walker. —Curbed

••• Another South Street Seaport lawsuit: “The latest complaint was filed on Thursday by The Gap Inc., which operates a store in the Fulton Market Building, which is located across the street from Pier 17. According to the complaint, Hughes is seeking to cancel the store’s lease and is ordering the retailer to remove its merchandise and other equipment by Fri., March 22, claiming that the damage to the building triggers a clause in the store’s lease that allows the landlord to terminate all tenants. A spokesman for Hughes said in a statement that the Gap’s complaint is ‘factually incorrect and legally without merit.'” —Crain’s

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