••• The South Street Seaport has bigger plans than just Brooklyn Flea this summer, says the New York Times. There will be “a stage erected at Fulton and Water Streets where a carpet of grass will be rolled out in the cobblestone street and rows of wood-and-canvas beach chairs will be set up for weekly concerts and film screenings. Just south of the impromptu theater, refurbished shipping containers will be assembled into an asymmetrical, two-story structure and apportioned into small retail spaces […]. The top level of the containers will be the newest temporary home for SmorgasBar, an offshoot of the popular Brooklyn Flea munch fest SmorgasBurg. On tap at the beer garden-style space will be Brooklyn beers, drinks mixed with Brooklyn Soda Works beverages and spiked slushies from a machine provided by Kelvin Natural Slush Company [….] Further plans are afoot at Cannon’s Walk at 207A Front Street [which] is being turned over to an ‘event production/experiential marketing agency’ from Washington, Brightest Young Things. Svetlana Legetic, who runs Brightest Young Things, said she looked forward to converting the place into a ‘little surprise jewel box space where anything could happen,’ including ‘weird little special dance parties’ and perhaps a glitter-spewing balloon canopy. ‘Whenever you stop by there, something would be going on and you might not even know what it was going to be,’ Ms. Legetic said on Tuesday. ‘What if one day we wanted to just put up vintage hammocks?'”  Well, people might lie in them, for one thing. Look, anything that draws people and attention to the Seaport is good, but I’ve long wondered whether one main reason that a certain kind of tourist likes the South Street Seaport is that it feels sort of like a mall back home—a reassuring, edge-free place in our otherwise overwhelming city.

••• 56 Walker is for sale again, this time for $22.5 million—that’s twice as much as was being asked a year ago. —Curbed

••• Fake shopping in Tribeca for summery decor with PureWow’s Mary Kate McGrath. —New York Observer