••• The Broadsheet has another rendering of the new Flea theater coming to Thomas Street, with a better glimpse of its big dark façade and “FLEA” in huge letters.

••• “A portion of the West Side Highway was closed during Wednesday morning’s rush hour after ice plummeted from One World Trade Center, officials and witnesses said.” —DNAinfo

••• Community Board 1’s Seaport/Civic Center Committee rebuffed Denny’s request to serve alcohol starting at 8 a.m. on Saturdays and 10 a.m. on weekdays. “The committee voted unanimously to approve the license, but only if Denny’s begins its alcohol service later: 11 a.m. Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. on Saturday and noon on Sunday. The restaurant would be required to stop serving alcohol at midnight every night and close at 1 a.m.” —Tribeca Trib

••• “A thief stole $31,000 in cash from a minivan three blocks from a Tribeca police station house, authorities said. The driver of the vehicle told cops he had been carrying cash to refill an ATM when he parked his gray Honda Odyssey at W. Broadway and Leonard at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.” —New York Post

••• Archaeological news at City Hall: “‘At first we thought it was maybe a spice-grinder or needle case,’ said Alyssa Loorya, president of Chrysalis Archaeology, the firm that oversaw the dig, part of a Department of Design and Construction rehabilitation project at City Hall. ‘We were stumped.’ The early incarnation of a douche—a hollow, cylinder with small holes at its top made from unidentified mammal bone—was found in a massive heap of buried garbage that dates back to between 1803 and 1815.” —DNAinfo

••• John Willenbecher sent over this ArchDaily article on the Woolworth Building, wondering if anyone can identify the big complex of buildings to the left, in the distance.

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