NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: THE BUTTERFLY
When was the last time you ate at a restaurant where the servers wore pocket protectors? Or frilly aprons? The Butterfly, chef Michael White’s homage to Wisconsin, feels delightfully un-focus-grouped. Check out the photos and menu.

WHAT’S REPLACING WORKING CLASS
Before we get to the exciting new tenant on Duane Park, something just as important: Almost everything at Working Class Emporium is now 60% percent off.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 6/24: Hudson River Park legislation is passed. Plus: The reopened Bikini Bar’s funky new menu; “Tribeca Animal Totem”; NYPD ticketing Citi Bikers.
••• 6/25: New restaurant plans for Lispenard. Plus: A 93 Worth reunion at 15 Renwick; Franklin subway entrance finally reopened; new deli; Marc Forgione Bloody Mary mix; Balcony Café progress.
••• 6/26: Smoking banned in Hudson River Park. Plus: A close-up of the Pier 26 restaurant; free tennis clinic; 449 Washington listings; WeightWatchers in FiDi; P.S. 234 flash mob.

NOSY NEIGHBOR
“Any idea when BMCC will finally rid us of the trailers skirting the West Side Highway? Aren’t they obsolete now that the new Fiterman Hall has opened?” —N. Good news!

IN THE NEWS
••• 6/24: Broadway reconstruction. Plus: A sassy business; what to call 1 World Trade Center?; election drama at Stuyvesant; bees in Battery Park; overheard in Tribeca; street vendors miffed at Citi Bike; “scary sale” at 19 Hubert.
••• 6/25: Seaport Museum left to sink. Plus: 56 Leonard penthouse sells for downtown record; Exerblast closing today; child assaulted at Pier 17; All Good Things burglary; FiDi lobby retail.

CLOSE-UP: THOMAS STREET
A look at the patterns, details, textures, and scars that make Thomas Street distinctive.