••• You just can’t make this stuff up: “In the 1970s, Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, worked with a new nonprofit group, the United Jewish Council of the East Side, to block low-income housing on a large barren site in his district on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the beginning of a decades-long effort that was described in a recent article in The New York Times. Those actions, Mr. Silver insisted after the article was published, were actually taken by another man: Sheldon E. Silver, a Minneapolis-born lawyer who moved to Brooklyn in the early 1970s and died in 2001. […] But the documents cited in the article make clear that Speaker Silver—a master at distancing himself from controversies and scandals in his chamber—was in fact the person who pressed New York City officials to allow an international mall to be built on the site, instead of low-income housing.” I boldfaced it so there’d be no confusion. —New York Times

••• The 9/11 Museum kicked out an editor at Gothamist who happened to talk to one other visitor. This sort of thing is so absurd in the age of social media—someone with 100,000 Instagram followers can post pix of whatever, but reporters can’t have conversations? Then again, I’m not sure I would have acknowledged that I was a reporter, even if asked, and especially in a taxpayer-supported institution.

••• “Fitness studio Brooklyn Crew—think SoulCycle but with rowing machines—is ready to expand to Manhattan. Founders Josh Ozeri and Rob Minucci, both 26, opened their Williamsburg shop last spring. For the past month, they’ve been scouting Tribeca and Union Square.” —Crain’s

••• There are new shops and a restaurant at the South Street Seaport. —Downtown Express

••• “Governors Island opens for the season tomorrow (Saturday, May 24). Visitors will be astounded by the progress made since the end of last season in the island’s ongoing transformation into a world-class park. Since the close of the 2013 season, more than two dozen buildings have been demolished and 2000-plus parking spaces have been erased. The result is the equivalent of dozens of square City blocks filled with wooden playgrounds, gardens, lawns festooned with hammocks, a pair of new baseball fields, and more than 1,500 freshly-planted trees.” —Broadsheet

••• The New York Post‘s police blotter includes several Tribeca thefts—at Washington Market Park, Saleya, and Starbucks. Also, “A man’s body was found floating in the East River near the South Street Seaport on Thursday.”

••• Lingered Upon visits the Tribeca jewelry studio of n + a new york.

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