••• New York State is still not interested in Related’s dream plan to move BMCC in exchange for development rights next to the Farley building (which everyone wants to be the next Penn Station). —Wall Street Journal

••• “There are recording studio architects, there are recording studio owners—and ne’er the twain shall be one and the same. Unless you’re talking about 333 Recording, which just launched in Tribeca.” It’s at Charlton. Close enough? “The always fashionable NYC neighborhood, and the buzzing building at 333 Hudson Street, is now home to a sun-filled new facility founded—and designed—by Richard Alderson.” —Sonic Scoop

••• The New York Post profiles Georg Petschnigg, the co-founder and CEO of FiftyThree: “Working out of Petschnigg’s Tribeca apartment, the quartet spent 11 months developing Paper, a digital blank canvas and utensil set that allows users to sketch and color on their tablets. Within two weeks of launching in March 2012, the app was downloaded 1.5 million times.”

••• Duarte Square is getting “a new community garden designed by artist Juanli Carrion. Called the Outer Seed Shadow, the 2,000-square-foot garden will be shaped like Manhattan, and it will feature plants chosen by immigrants living in different parts of the city to explore ‘the diversity of migrant communities and their experience in NYC.'” (Duarte Square is between Canal, Sixth Ave., and Grand.) —Curbed

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