LISA SCHIFF “GALLERY” FOR WHITE
Art Forum is still reporting that art advisor Lisa Schiff will open her un-gallery gallery at 45 White Street. This news goes back to December and is still filtering through the art world. (Journal Gallery is also open at 45 White, though more on that soon.)

PENTHOUSE FOR RENT
Bloomberg reports that expensive apartments are increasingly being rented, not sold. “New leases for the borough’s priciest units, costing at least $10,000 a month, jumped 16% in April from a year earlier to 149, while agreements declined for the market as a whole, according to a report Thursday by appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. and brokerage Douglas Elliman Real Estate. The median rent in that upper tier climbed 3.9% to $13,995.”

65 FRANKLIN READY TO GO
The Real Deal reports that demolition on the building at 65 Franklin at Broadway (previous TC story here) will start within weeks, now that the developer has secured funding. Big thanks to J. for digging this updated rendering out of the DOB filings.

TRIBECAxDESIGN
Orior furniture and Egg Collective are listed as highlights of this year’s NYCxDesign in Curbed’s round up.

ANYBODY HOME?
The Commercial Observer looked at some of the priciest residential towers and crunched voter data to see just how many people are (not) living in them. 432 Park took the prize, with 17 voters across 125 units. “However, the Jenga-looking tower at 56 Leonard Street, which opened at the same time as 432 Park, had 87 voters in 57 of 145 apartments, a much more solid 39 percent.”