PURSUING THE BATTERY TICKET HAWKERS
Borough presidents James Oddo (SI) and Gale Brewer are trying to figure out how to crack down on ticket hawkers at the Staten Island Ferry terminal. The meeting comes after Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou was harassed by Statue of Liberty ticket hawkers last week while, she said, NYPD cops stood by and told her there was nothing they could do. –SI Live

NEW CEO FOR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
The former CEO of the Trust for Governors Island, Leslie Koch, will lead the World Trade Center’s Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center. –Patch

JAY, MYSELF AND $55 MILLION
A bit farther afield, but a real estate story that’s hard not to love: My friend David Alm reviews (for Forbes) a film about photographer Jay Maisel, the bank he bought in 1966 for $102,000 AND SOLD FOR $55 MILLION, and the life he created there with his wife and their daughter. “A new documentary by Stephen Wilkes, ‘Jay Myself,’ tells its fascinating, improbable, only-in-a-bygone-New York story, as only Wilkes could tell it.”

FRENCH ONION DIP GETS FANCY
In the two points make a line department, this from Eater (and including Temple Court at The Beekman): “Chefs around New York City are going crazy for an unlikely, low-brow appetizer: French onion dip. Upscale restaurants like TAK Room and hip ones like Hunky Dory are taking the dump-and-stir Lipton’s version many Americans know and love and making the dish in-house with care.”

DINER EN BLANC WASHED OUT
Battery Park City hosted the ninth edition of the Diner en Blanc last week, only to see it washed out by a downpour, or as the Post puts it “This coulda turned into New York City’s biggest wet T-shirt contest.” 5,500 guests did show up; 80,000 were on the waitlist for an event where you bring your own everything. (What?)