••• A “new batch of drawings comes courtesy Farago Design, a firm that was commissioned by the Downtown Alliance to capture the rooftops of landmarks in Lower Manhattan. Peter Farago worked with Linda Dietz, the VP of Marketing and Communications at the Alliance, to choose 30 buildings worthy of depiction, and he set out to draw them all.” —Curbed

••• I was reading a New Yorker Talk of the Town piece about the recent ticker-tape parade, wondering why I was bothering, when Anna Stern saved the day: “Back at the crêperie, Anna Stern stood near a sign offering discounts to patrons wearing red, white, and blue. Stern wore some red—a stylish rope necklace and a straw hat—but the rest of her clothing was black. ‘I’m from Brooklyn, and I’ve lived in Tribeca thirty-five years,’ she said. ‘Compared to the months after 9/11, when everything shut down, a parade like this is just a minor annoyance.’ Fans had come from all over the country. ‘I don’t have anything to do with people from Iowa. I mean, it’s nice. It’s sweet. But I don’t follow sports.’ She added, ‘At least it’s a global game.'”

••• “It took four listing prices to sell the ‘1,997 sq ft’ Manhattan penthouse loft #PHD at 73 Worth Street on June 26. One way to say it took a long time to sell is like this ‘188 Days on StreetEasy.’ Here’s another way to show that a summer sale took a long time: [the listing photo shows snow on the terrace].” —Manhattan Loft Guy

••• Seawife, “the new Naked Angels production […] feels like a sea chanty come to life. Open the doors to the South Street Seaport Museum’s Melville Gallery, and, on a cozy set decked in fishnets and burlap, actor-musicians in knickers and leather vests fiddle, stomp, and sing like sailors’ ghosts having a party. […] It’s exactly what you hope might be happening after hours at the South Street Seaport.” —The New Yorker

••• All about the professional volleyball tournament this weekend at Pier 25 and 26. —Broadsheet

••• “At Whisper Editions, the arty concept shop that opened in the Seaport last winter, Out Magazine editor-in-chief Aaron Hicklin has tapped a handful of artists and celebrities to display their ‘desert island’ books […] at a mini pop-up bookstore. Jeremiah (of Vanishing New York fame) stopped by the pop-up, One Grand today, and found a few notable revelations on the reading habits of celebrities, namely, that designer Tom Ford is into the same author every other hot dude on the subway is: Ayn Rand.” I wouldn’t have guessed that Tom Ford’s ego needed buttressing. “And Tilda Swinton [will] be bringing Patrick Dannis’ Auntie Mamie [double sic, and get yourself a big dose of Rosalind Russell, stat!], Nancy Mitford’s Love In a Cold Climate, and Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, among others.” —Racked

••• “Upscale Chinese fashion designer Wang Tao is opening her first U.S. location at 19 Howard.” —The Real Deal

••• “A man shoplifting about $158 worth of lipstick, lip liners and stick-on nails from a Financial District Duane Reade tried to punch an NYPD detective in the kisser.” —DNAinfo

••• The size of the building going up at 250 South Street keeps changing, but unless something drastic happens, the rendering below shows how out of scale it’ll be with its surroundings. —Curbed (rendering from Bowery Boogie)