••• I meant to include this yesterday but forgot: SeriouslyNY spotted this costume in Tribeca, and I think it’s brilliant (and he’s that much less likely to get hit by a car).

••• And after posting yesterday about the progress of 45 Park Place as seen from the east, I noticed it from the north, where it has crested over the nearby buildings. Tribeca is going to look like a mid-match chessboard, with powerful pieces scattered here and there, looming over the pawns.

••• Opening today at Postmasters: “NSFW, a two person exhibition of sexually explosive and explicit paintings by Ana Benaroya and Tina Lugo. Fearless, uninhibited, and in charge, both artists deliver a concentrated dose of female power, kink and erotic passion. Their vital painting energy throws off the constraints of prevailing gender identities, leaving humor and horror free to get it on. Not Safe For Work indeed.” Also: “Glamour Modeling—our first solo exhibition with Toronto-based new media artist Alex McLeod. Born in 1984, McLeod is an artist concerned with simulation and the transition of matter. His digitally rendered characters and environments have an air of uncanny familiarity to anyone who’s ever virtually set foot inside a video game.” Below: Benaroya’s “Butting Heads” and Lugo’s “Puppy Play.”

••• Spring Place, the private club at Spring Studios on Varick, has opened an outpost in Beverly Hills. The press release.

••• Meanwhile, while walking by the Fulton Center the other day, I was struck how homeless people were sitting all along the windows on the Fulton side. Perhaps that’s why Westfield has been loathe to add more benches to the World Trade Center mall.

••• Speaking of the WTC mall, we can add Epicerie Boulud to the list of businesses that no longer take cash. Below: the delectable palmier, although I recall the ones at Bouley Bakery (or whatever it was called when it was a bakery) more fondly.

••• “Search Party” shot in the Broadway/Walker area yesterday.