STILL TILTING FOR THE RECTOR STREET BRIDGE
The Trib reports on the ongoing effort to save the Rector Street Bridge that crosses over the highway. It’s due to be demolished – replaced now by the West Thames Bridge two blocks away – within a few months. The leader of the campaign, Robert Schneck, argues that Rector is the better spot anyway.

GOING NATURAL WINS FOR FRENCHETTE
Crain’s argues that the natural wines were what helped get Frenchette the James Beard Foundation’s best new restaurant in the country designation. The wine list is exclusively natural wines and the restaurant took in $1 million in wine sales this year.

FIREFIGHTER SETTLES WITH CITY OVER HARRASSMENT
A firefighter from Ladder 1 / Engine Co. 7 who filed a lawsuit against the city, saying his fellow firefighters bombarded him with homophobic taunts, received an $80,000 settlement from the city, the Daily News reports. Michael Troina quietly settled his federal discrimination lawsuit last month, charging that he was hazed and bullied, and encouraged to have sex with a stripper to prove he was not gay.

FRED PERRY COMING TO SOHO
Women’s Wear Daily notes that Fred Perry — whose eponymous brand was launched at Wimbledon in 1952 — is opening a new flagship at 463 Broome at Spring. That laurel wreath always takes me back to those middle school preppy fashion days.