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SEEN & HEARD
A marker for the first synagogue in North America. A street co-naming honors the Mill Street Synagogue, built in 1730 on what is now an Icon parking lot on South William Street, and Rabbi Gershom Mendes Seixas, a leader of the Jewish community during the colonial era. The ceremony is today.

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WOMAN KILLED BY DOWNTOWN CONNECTION BUS
Arlene Kalfus, 81, a resident of Gateway Plaza, was hit and killed by the Downtown Connection jitney in front of her building on Thursday, immediately after getting off the M9.

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EYESORE OF THE WEEK
Greenwich Street cobbles: Some of the neighborhood’s cobblestone streets are in desperate need of some TLC from the DDC or the DOT — or whatever agency can bring the Belgian block back to life.

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IN THE NEWS
A proposal to fill in Tribeca’s Hudson River Park. Plus luxury housing selling at a discount; single tickets on sale for film festival; NYPD opposed placard plan; an analysis of plan to fill in Seaport; Car & Driver evaluates congestion pricing.

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NEW KID: TAKESHI
The omakase restaurant has only 10 seats in a tiny storefront on Grand but the experience is special. And somehow not so precious, as you’d guess a place like this could be.

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SEEN & HEARD
Tribeca MedSpa gets its own face lift. Plus the best billboard ever; the man behind Fidi fanpage; paintings by TC Cannon at the Museum of the American Indian; Hudson River Park volunteers give the Tribeca boardwalk a spring cleaning.

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WHERE IN TRIBECA?
Water, water everywhere, but in this case, the game is to be more precise. Let’s see who keeps their noses to the cobblestone as they walk.