IS THIS A CRIME WAVE?
“When I spoke to one of the cops at the scene,” said a reader about a new incident, “he had said that the same thing happened earlier that night on Duane Street, and was the third one in the neighborhood that weekend.” (And then after this post went up, a reader on Warren said his/her apartment had also been broken into.) The full list of break-ins is here. PLUS: The  NYPD responds.

ORWASHERS HAS LEFT ALL GOOD THINGS
Just nine months after opening, Orwashers Bakery has packed up and gone. All Good Things explains its plans to replace it, and here’s where you can still buy Orwashers (including how to score a free loaf of bread).

SEEN & HEARD
••• 5/13: Details on President Obama’s visit. Plus: A break-in on Duane Street last week; Nancy Pelosi’s daughter; update on the Greek; Brooklyn Bridge access ramps.
••• 5/14: Working Class is closing. Plus: The Marines are leaving; Fika beer and wine; bank branch closing; free City Winery concerts; Sing for Hope pianos; Dosateria raw cane juice; Bogardus Plaza event; another deli; Real Pilates event; Obama protection.
••• 5/15: Video of Obama’s motorcade. Plus: Yesterday’s sun halo; Crab Nights starting up again; Collect Pond Park update; Kori has reopened; Washington Market Park event; City Hall Greenmarket; Ninja lunch.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 5/13: Storm damage. Plus: Drunk abuses FDNY help button; again with the school waitlists; Lispenard real estate analysis; wedding lawsuits; Drama League to open its new home; New Amsterdam Market.
••• 5/14: Great photos of Lower Manhattan in the 1970s. Plus: Holland Tunnel plaza; Squadron’s community confab; Tetsu update; Thomas Street real estate analysis.
••• 5/15: The Four Seasons Hotel on Church Street is finally, maybe, back on. Plus: 346 Broadway only might have a hotel (besides lots of condos); historical Tribeca; Corton rave review; the west side in 1993; a FiDi robbery with a BB gun.

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BASED IN TRIBECA: VALERIE CARMET GALLERY
Mosaic artist Valerie Carmet shows us around her Hudson Street studio. “It’s very sunny, peaceful, inspirational, full of plates, stained glass, and mixed media and materials,” she says. “But mainly messy!”