FIRST IMPRESSIONS: PARM
The food at Parm’s new Battery Park City’s outpost is more sophisticated and better executed than the setting, or even the menu, lets on. And where else is your amuse bouche going to be a fried mozzarella stick? Check it out.

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SQUEEZED OUT
A Tribeca juice bar is closing.

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 7/13: Activity in the former Dean’s space. Plus: Vintage cars for Bastille Day; a rebranding for Sushi Azabu?; social-minded shared workspace; checking in on 187 Franklin construction.
••• 7/14: The Ninja Turtles are coming back this weekend. Plus: Seamless gets aggressive on tipping; Terroir celebrates Bastille Day in style; where to donate used eyeglasses; test-driving a Bugaboo Runner; M&M pop-up shop is open.
••• 7/15: Duran Duran to play the Seaport. Plus: The paper is down at Maison Kayser (above); demolition at storefronts on Laight and Broadway; Reines Gallery moving forward.

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PITY THE SMALL BUILDINGS
A block of Spring Street is said to be in play. One of the buildings is a landmark, but whether that’s enough to stop development will remain to be seen.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 7/13: Smarter Toddler preschool is opening downtown. Plus: Phone stanched by bike-riding thief; artist Barbara Siegel; Puffy’s Tavern review; fired man beats up ex-colleague; Community Board 1 takes the Howard Hughes Corp. to task; puppetry for the disabled; entrepreneurial kids.
••• 7/14: Living above a FedEx distribution hub. Plus: Two area bakeries honored; inside a Marc Jacobs shoe designer’s Tribeca apartment (above); eastern FiDi development; Police Museum still closed; a cruise ship.
••• 7/15: Lipstick thief slugs cop. Plus: Beautiful drawings of downtown buildings; 73 Worth analysis; bookstore pop-up with celeb picks; Chinese designer’s Howard Street shop; sea chanty musical; pro volleyball tourney; East River tower; “I don’t have anything to do with people from Iowa.”

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VALENTINE NO. 43
Musical memorials.

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