NOSY NEIGHBOR: MYSTERY PAINTING IN CORTLANDT ALLEY
It’s a repro of the Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church from 1887 titled “Niagara Falls, from the American Side” and it’s almost as big as the original, which can now be found in Scotland.

HUDSON SQUARE CREATES OUTDOOR ART GALLERY
Experience Hudson Square through a new large scale urban art gallery along Varick Street. Hudson Square has always been a neighborhood on the creating edge of innovation, a place of creative energy, human –scale streets, and the excitement of a community on the move – where an industrious past is the foundation for a bold stake in the future. The Hudson Square BID is proud to unveil Hudson Square Canvas, an homage to the neighborhood’s evolution on the creating edge through 5 original artworks. In celebration of our 10 years as an organization, this gallery is our gift to the neighborhood. / Sponsored

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IN THE NEWS
Real estate, gossip and Governors: AKA Tribeca gets a review; the Citibank building gets its close up; Governors Island gets a new chief development officer (for the first time); celebrity children get taken out to brunch.

SEEN & HEARD
Frankly Wines doubles down. Plus no more Happy Land; the latest Instagram bait on York; Pure Green Cleaners on Warren; and new and improved cobbles on Greenwich.

GATEWAY TENANTS BATTLING TO KEEP RENTS STABLE
A group of residents at the 1,700-unit Gateway Plaza are trying to keep the rents there from continuing to climb, and make sure units that were stabilized in 2009 will stay that way.

CROWD SOURCING: THE POOP PROBLEM
There have probably been more complaints to the TC email about dog droppings than any other topic. So dog owners, what’s the story?

SEEN & HEARD
9/11 Tribute in Light gets preview this week. Plus the Downtown Community Center will host an open house; Smorgasburg adds tunes from 2 to 7 on Friday; free movies on Fosun’s Plaza starting this Thursday.

IN THE NEWS
Case dismissed for 9/11 workers at Stuy. Plus Uber founder settles at 565 Broome; Soho and Brownsville have something in common; Wendy Williams has a night out on Murray; an insurance exec moves into the Woolworth building.