••• Just like 174 Duane, 188 Duane is being marketed as a single-family mansion: “Two of the residential units have rent stabilized tenants, while the other is free market. With an additional 3,000 square feet of air rights, the possibilities are wide open to incorporate a generously-sized 5th floor addition or wonderful rooftop deck.”

••• As promised, Komanoff spoke with Ken Podziba of Bike New York, the organizers of the Five Boro Bike Tour. “Thanks for the heads-up about this,” was Podziba’s response. “I was under the impression that the city, through the Community Affairs Office, was in touch with the residents. We received more complaints from residents this year than in the past—not sure why—but we need to collectively do a better job notifying and engaging the residents impacted by the noise. I will talk to my communications and events teams to find out what was done, if anything, with respect to the residents and develop a better communications/community relations plan. We’re obviously going to continue being there for Year 39 and beyond but it’s inexcusable to ignore their concerns if that’s what we’ve been doing—and for this I apologize on behalf of Bike New York.” It’s appreciated. I agree with Jean Grillo’s comment: There used to be something magical about going outside and discovering hundreds of cyclists amassing for the ride; the amplified music and patter ruined that.

••• Grand Banks returns to Pier 25 this afternoon; it’ll open late next week.

••• I was standing on W. Broadway, looking at a parked Murray’s Cheese Shop van and willing the company to open a store in the Bubble Lounge space, when two NYPD cars made the illegal right from White to W. Broadway. (One, as you can see above, was #3980. They briefly turned their flashing lights on for the turn, then turned them right back off.) Then a black Escalade-type of car did it. Honestly, one of these days I’m going to sit there for a few hours and get photos of every single one.

••• A film called Custody is filming around Franklin/Church the rest of this week. From Variety: “Hayden Panettiere and Ellen Burstyn have joined Viola Davis and Catalina Sandino Moreno in James Lapine’s courtroom drama Custody. Tony Shalhoub, Raul Esparza and Dan Fogler have also been cast. […] The film follows three women whose lives unexpectedly intersect at a New York Family Court.”

••• The cobblestones of N. Moore between W. Broadway and Varick appear to have been partially paved over with blacktop. (Someone on Twitter said that all of N. Moore got the treatment—I didn’t happen to walk that far west.)