••• The Cosmopolitan Hotel has decided not to tear down the old MaryAnn’s building—the addition that might have been is pictured at right—and instead the hotel is renovating the building into a home for the second Cafeteria restaurant. (It has always been my guess that this is primarily because the neighboring building started to keel over.) The restaurant won 2 a.m. nightly approval, as long as the W. Broadway entrance is closed at 11 p.m., forcing patrons to exit via “an entrance between the hotel and the restaurant.” Also: The restaurant said it “would pay to outfit any bedroom windows on the block with CitiQuiet windows—a double paned window that [restaurateur Mark] Amadie says blocks out 90 percent of the street noise.” —DNAinfo

••• Foto Architectura got a tour of the Woolworth Building. (via Curbed)

••• The Wall Street Journal‘s “Greater New York” section has, for some reason, a big, puffy article about fitness guru Tracy Anderson’s new studio in Brentwood, Calif.

••• “The city has announced the winner of a six-month competition seeking cheaper solutions for the city’s pricey maritime infrastructure, and that winner is 3D printing. A British company has figured out a way to print concrete casements for underwater pilings to protect them from additional erosion.” —Curbed, summarizing Crain’s