••• The New York Times spotlights the Odeon in a roundup of Art Deco nightspots.

••• And a related article looks at the life of mosaic artist Hildreth Meière: “For the ceiling of the AT&T Long Distance Building, at 32 Avenue of the Americas (near Walker Street) in what is now Tribeca, in 1932, she entertained the notion of depicting a day in the life of a contemporary “telephone girl,” but agreed instead to symbolic personifications of electronic communication, rendered in glass tile and colored cement.”

••• “The curator Nicola Vassell has a blue-chip art-world pedigree as a former director at both Deitch Projects and Pace. […] Her latest show, ‘Black Eye,’ underscores the continuing need for increased diversity in a still narrow art world. The wide-ranging exhibition, which opens [tonight] in Tribeca, features paintings, photographs and collage by 26 emerging and established black artists, including Wangechi Mutu, Jacolby Satterwhite, Steve McQueen and Kerry James Marshall.” It’s at 57 Walker. —T Magazine

••• “The mile-and-a-half stretch of Canal Street from West Street to East Broadway is one of nine new arterial slow zones announced Thursday by the Department of Transportation. Traffic on Canal Street will be reduced to 25 miles per hour and accompanied by signal timing changes, distinctive signage and increased enforcement by the NYPD.” LOL, LOL, and LOL. —DNAinfo

••• “A woman gave birth to a baby boy in the backseat of a yellow cab in Tribeca Thursday night.” It was at Hudson and Laight. —New York Post

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