••• “New to Pier 25 this year is a sailing program operated by the Offshore Sailing School, whose other Hudson River locations are at Chelsea Piers and across the Hudson at Liberty Landing Marina, in Jersey City’s Liberty State Park.” —Broadsheet

••• Downtown Lunch loves the takeout lunch special at Benares.

••• The Wall Street Journal reports on how Tribecan Maya Mavjee, the head of the Crown publishing house, had a “book club” with a bunch of people who work at Crown, Sarah Jessica Parker, and some other folks; naturally, they read a Crown book. Score one for the Crown publicity team.

••• “Plane wreckage found last week behind a building in Lower Manhattan and apparently deposited there after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is part of a wing flap—not part of the landing gear—from a jumbo jet of the same model as those that crashed into the World Trade Center, Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, said on Monday.” —New York Times

••• The Franklin Place sales office is open. —Curbed