In the News: 70 Pine Will Have a Bowling Alley

••• The New York Post profiles Tribeca resident Louise Vongerichten, daughter of Jean-Georges and the business development manager of the new Food & Wine Chefs Club in Soho.

••• Bon Appétit magazine set off the smoke alarm at 1 World Trade Center and then tried to deny it. —New York Post

••• 56 Leonard is now at 50 stories (it’ll be 60), and so maybe we’ll soon start to get some interesting cantilevers instead of more of the Downtown Miami effect of the middle. —Field Condition (via Curbed)

••• 70 Pine amenity details: Besides “a screening room in a former bank vault and a two-story La Palestra gym with a two-lane bowling alley, there will be a restaurant and lounge on the top three floors of the 66-story tower. Several outdoor terraces will offer dining with ‘outrageous unimpeded views,’ said Adam R. Rose, a co-president of Rose Associates, who promised the chef would be among the city’s top talents. While the space will be open to the public, only residents will be guaranteed a table. Everyone else will be seated on a first-come, first-served basis.” Bet not. “Downstairs, the Art Deco lobby is being restored with an eye to residents and visitors alike, including a coffeehouse and a barbershop.” —New York Times

••• The trio of big, orange, and temporary statues coming to Foley Square. —DNAinfo

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