LOOKING BACK ON THE ODEON AT 40
Conde Nast Traveler has a great oral history of The Odeon from owner Lynn Wagenknecht and fellow founders Keith McNally (her ex-husband) and Brian McNally. And in it Lynn notes that part of the restaurant’s success comes from staying loyal to the locals. “I think you have to start by just making yourself appealing to the neighborhood,” says Wagenknecht. “They’re the ones who help you survive through thick and thin, like after 9/11 when we reopened a few weeks after. I think it’s important that people that live around it think of it as their bar for a drink or to escape their daily woes.”

THE LEANING TOWER OF FIDI
The Real Deal reports that the 60-story luxury building at 161 Maiden Lane, which is being constructed by Fortis Property Group and which was reported to be leaning, “has been besieged by construction delays and litigation for years. And now its lenders have stopped funding its construction loan.”

CONFRONTING WHITE SUPREMACY
The Trenton Doyle Hancock show at the James Cohan Gallery gets a write-up in The Art Newspaper as one of three shows to see this weekend for its collection of paintings that “confront white supremacy at a time when racial tensions have reached a fever pitch.”

NEW RUG DESIGNS AT ORIOR
AD has a feature on the inaugural rug collection from the brother-sister duo at the furniture store Orior on Harrison; and I have an interview from December (!) that I will run soon.