••• A New York Times profile of real estate broker Michael Shvo includes this: “The project, 100 Varick Street, is to be built on nearly half an acre between Broome and Watts Streets. The site is an assemblage of several town houses, development parcels and air rights that took six months to acquire. The developers are proposing a 30-story condominium.” (It’s across from the Holland Tunnel onramps.)

••• In a Huffington Post article about neighborhoods and the people who live there, NYU student Greg Jacobs has this to say about Tribeca: “This Lululemon wearing, stroller pushing, prominent young woman enjoys having ‘made it’ in New York City. Her husband works in finance while she balances her growing organic coffee company and her growing family. She LOVES Soul-Cycle, just like her West Village friends. She’s on day twelve of her juice cleanse, leaving her irritable and very thin. Her children go to a great private school and are her pride and joy. She is a great mother. The parents are debating about moving to Connecticut and buying a house, or staying in the city and buying a dog. The thought of leaving New York is utterly terrifying, but slowly becoming a reality. They settle for a country house upstate.”

••• Scouting New York lists the 10 most “dangerous” places in the city, including two in FiDi.

••• Could 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza go residential? A buyer could be announced as soon as this week. —New York Times

••• Haaretz: “Moishe Mana, the Israeli who made a fortune with his moving empire, wants to build a new Tribeca in Jersey City.” It’s a long piece, but this quote from Mana is my favorite part: “If you call the place ‘Tribeca West’ enough times, at some point people will start to believe that it is Tribeca West. That’s how you change a stigma.” Don’t laugh—it worked here. “One of the artists who works out of Mana Contemporary told me, ‘I moved to Tribeca to do creative work next to artists, but when I went outside I saw Louis Vuitton and Hugo Boss outlets. My home is here in Jersey City, this is where my dream was realized.’”

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