••• The Tribeca Film Festival continues to catch flak for its misguided decision to screen an anti-vaccine “documentary” by a discredited doctor (Salon, The Cut, Glamour, Smithsonian, and so on). The festival’s response is anemic, to say the least—as if curating doesn’t involve value judgements! Moreover, here’s the festival’s description of the film. One can only assume they included it to court controversy for PR purposes, which is borderline depraved.

UPDATE: Festival co-founder Robert De Niro released this statement:

Grace and I have a child with autism and we believe it is critical that all of the issues surrounding the causes of autism be openly discussed and examined. In the 15 years since the Tribeca Film Festival was founded, I have never asked for a film to be screened or gotten involved in the programming. However this is very personal to me and my family and I want there to be a discussion, which is why we will be screening VAXXED. I am not personally endorsing the film, nor am I anti-vaccination; I am only providing the opportunity for a conversation around the issue.

UPDATE 3/26: The festival released a statement from De Niro, which included this: “We have concerns with certain things in this film that we feel prevent us from presenting it in the Festival program. We have decided to remove it from our schedule.”

••• P.S. 234 teachers are mentioned in a New York Times article about how “Teachers Are Warned About Criticizing New York State Tests.”

••• “Research by Diana Switaj, CB1’s director of planning and land use indicates that more than 6,000 new apartments are scheduled to be developed Lower Manhattan in the next several years (not including the building at 80 South Street [which is the focus of this article]). These are likely to bring with them almost 12,000 new residents, and deepen Lower Manhattan’s deficit in schools capacity by hundreds of additional seats.” —Broadsheet

••• A GQ Taiwan fashion story was shot in Tribeca. —Homme Mode (or Homme Model?)