••• “Tribeca’s popular playground on Pier 25 […] faces a months-long shutdown, beginning Monday, Sept. 24. The area will be closed for an undetermined length of time while the play surface is replaced and repairs are made to the drainage system.” —Tribeca Trib

••• The highlight in the Tribeca Trib police blotter: “A 21-year-old man went to a club and brought back a woman he did not know to his apartment [in Tribeca]. At some point he fell asleep and when he awoke he discovered that his $4,000 Rolex was no longer on his wrist and that the woman had left the apartment.”

••• “City Comptroller Scott Stringer has issued his annual Neighborhood Economic Profiles report, which provides a financial and demographic snapshot of each community throughout the five boroughs of New York City, and yields some interesting insights about Lower Manhattan,” defined as below 14th Street. —Broadsheet

••• “Plans to bring a temporary ice skating rink to the top of South Street Seaport’s newly-opened Pier 17 development were approved by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission [….] The materials presented to the LPC on Tuesday concerned plans for Pier 17’s winter rooftop programming, which will run roughly between November and April. Plans right now call for an ice-skating rink, a skate shop, a winter market (like the holiday markets throughout the city), and a warming hut.” —Curbed