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FIRST LOOK INSIDE THE HOTEL AT 456 GREENWICH
“This property will be one of the most luxurious hotels in New York City,” says one of the developers of the 96-room hotel going up at Greenwich and Desbrosses. Check out drawings of the interior.

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SEEN & HEARD
••• 8/20: Woolworth Building lights (above). Plus: Ghostbusters insignia repainted; Kingkow’s World Trade Center mall store will reopen; a likely catering kitchen on Reade; Oculus elevator signage; “Law & Order: SVU” shoot; tonight’s Video Music Awards performance.
••• 8/21: Where is Paper Source’s Tribeca shop? Plus: Construction appears imminent at Broadway and Franklin; mystery wire on W. Broadway; possible bank branch; OpenTable ignores everything south of Houston Street.
••• 8/22: Paper Source will be in Manhattan. Plus: The best BLT around; checking in on the Japanese restaurant coming to Warren; Il Mulino brunch; disappointing windows on Bjarke Ingels’s otherwise fabulous High Line buildings; graphic novelists at Pen Parentis.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 8/20: Meryl Streep listed her Tribeca penthouse (above). Plus: The mayor’s office claims it wants community input on its jail plan (but is Margaret Chin already onboard?); Seaport restaurant/bar is now a taqueria; beekeeping family; public comment for resiliency proposals.
••• 8/21: Cast Iron House got a $45 million loan. Plus: New York Times takes two stars away from Nobu; Citi Bike to test motorized bicycles; Citigroup is launching a private ferry between Pier 25 and Jersey City; Square Diner.
••• 8/22: Bâtard’s chef is moonlighting at Augustine. Plus: A jewelry designer’s Tribeca duplex; looking back at Trinity Church’s real-estate holdings in Lower Manhattan through the years.

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THE BLURRY CITY
Every now and then, the camera refuses to focus, and I find the result transfixing. Above: “Tribute in Light,” as seen from the Chrysler Building.

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