••• Two updates on the mayor’s proposal to ruin 80 Centre by plopping a 40-story jail tower in the gutted shell of the current building: First, reacting to her constituents’ anger at a recent town hall, “Council Member Margaret S. Chin urged City Hall to delay a scoping hearing scheduled for Thursday, September 27.” (That’s from her press release.) Also, the Historic Districts Council is pushing the Landmarks Preservation Commission to consider 80 Centre for landmark status—something the building should’ve had a long time ago. You can send a letter to the LPC via this link.

••• I spotted my first Urban Umbrella sidewalk shed in the wild the other day at 155 Sixth Ave. (en route to a tasty fried baccalà sandwich at Café Altro Paradiso). Is it more pleasant than the usual sidewalk shed? Sure. But what we need is Scaffold Law reform, not lipstick on the pig.

••• The Blood Manor haunted house will be in Tribeca this year, at 359 Broadway, the old building wedged between 91 Leonard’s Broadway side and the Cast Iron House. (So of course the website says the attraction is “coming to Broadway,” as if it’s yet another revival of “Oklahoma.”)

ATTRACTIONS AND CHAMBERS OF HORROR FOR 2018 INCLUDE:
THE CRYPT – WHERE NO ONE RESTS IN PEACE!
THUNDERDOME – TERROR UNLEASHED WHEN NATURE AND THE UNDEAD JOIN FORCE!
THE WAKE – COME PAY YOUR RESPECTS TO DOLL FACE…STAY FOREVER!
MAYHEM! – BEASTS AND DEMONS VIE FOR YOUR BODY….AND SOUL!
MAGGOT INVASION – THEY’LL GET UNDER YOUR SKIN!
HANNIBAL’S HELL – 1,000 WAYS TO DIE!
KILLER CLOWN ROOM!

••• Time to check in again with 25 Park Row and 1 Beekman, rising on the east side of City Hall Park. The curtain wall of 25 Park Row continues to get applied (second photo), while there’s finally a glimpse of what 1 Beekman will ultimately look like—note the dark patch in the third photo.

••• The TV show “Happy” shoots in the Warren/Broadway area tomorrow. I don’t know if it’s this, as described by IMDB: “An injured hit man befriends his kidnapped daughter’s imaginary friend—a perky blue flying unicorn.” Oy.