YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK ART
Architectural Digest has a feature on the home art collection of Tribecans Bernard Lumpkin and Carmine Boccuzzi, who have been collecting of Black American artists for a couple decades. “You’re hanging up an image of the way you want the world to be,” Lumpkin tells AD. “The way you want people to see themselves, the way you want your children to see themselves.” (More soon on his upcoming book, Young, Gifted and Black, and its accompanying show at Lehman College.)

30 WARREN SCRAPS GOING TO A GARDEN
A company called Testbeds is repurposing the high-performance facade mockups from construction projects to be used as gardening structures for GreenThumb programs around the city. So that’s how a piece of 30 Warren will soon be installed in the Edgemere Coalition Community Garden in Queens as their first project. Usually all that material goes in the trash. “Four sections of the condo development’s corrugated ultra-high-performance concrete facade and an 8-by-5-foot glass window will be used to form the walls and ceiling of a garden shed, gathering space, and classroom. More common (and less expensive) cinder blocks, two-by-fours, and polycarbonate panels will fill in the missing gaps.” –ArchPaper

LUXURY HOME SALES ON THE RISE
For the first time in four weeks, according to Mansion Global, “the number of high-end contracts signed crossed the double-digit mark” and the second most expensive home was a five-bed condo here. “It was last asking $12.4 million, a significant reduction from its original asking price in 2015, when it was listed off floor plans with an $18.9 million price tag.”

NO REOPENING FOR FACIALS ONLY
The owners of Glowbar have complained to the state that companies like theirs — which only offer facials — cannot reopen while other spa services can. PIX11 does a story on how the owners had even scheduled a second location on the Upper East Side, but before the doors had opened, they were shut down for COVID-19. They have been paying rent on both spaces every since, with no plans yet for reopening.