••• First rendering of the 54-story tower going up at 23 Park Row. This angle artfully obscures the Beekman tower and the Lara. The white box to the left is 1 Beekman (33-34 Park Row), also under construction. —YIMBY

••• An update on the Water Street arcades: “Tuesday, June 7, was supposed to be the day when City Council’s Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises and its Land Use Committee voted on what has been dubbed the Water Street Text Amendment but that didn’t happen. The Subcommittee vote has been pushed back to June 14 and the Land Use Committee, to June 15. This is to allow time for the text amendment to be modified because there has been so much opposition to the proposal as originally presented. […] The revised text amendment, currently in the works, would not be made public until June 15, when City Council’s Land Use Committee is scheduled to vote on it. After consideration by the Land Use Committee, the modified text would be sent to City Planning for comments with a final vote expected on June 21 by the full City Council. Opponents of the text amendment say that this schedule would not allow for any public comment on the modified proposal.” —Downtown Post NYC

••• The folks who are renting a house in D.C. to the Obamas, Joe and Giovanna Lockhart, bought at 415 Greenwich. —Luxury Listings (via Real Deal)

••• An article about how former NBA player Jason Williams is renting a Hamptons place this summer says that he and his family live in Tribeca. —New York Post

••• “Lower Manhattan residents can look forward to 12 months more of free tram service, compliments of the Battery Park City Authority and the Downtown Alliance.” —Broadsheet (there’s no link on the email and no evidence of the article on the website)

••• Apparently 343 Canal was a Tiger beer pop-up on June 7 and 8 with “over 800 Asian goods featuring amazing design, fashion, artwork, and technology.” Bummer not to have known about it beforehand. —Complex