DUANE PARK JUST GOT A LOT DRIER
ICYMI, to-go cocktails are over as of yesterday — robbing us of one of the best pandemic silver linings, and abruptly too. The rule was supposed to last till early July. “Classic COVID Cuomo,” as Grub Street put it so succinctly.

MS. JANET’S 35 YEARS AT BPC NURSERY
The Broadsheet has a nice story about Janet Lovell, who will retire at the end of July after 35 years at the Battery Park City Day Nursery. She plans to return to her native Belize. “In those first weeks and months, the facility hosted only 10 to 15 children, she remembers — a figure that is now verging on 100 per semester. ‘I never imagined that I would still be here 35 years later,’ Ms. Lovell reflects, ‘but I never doubted that Joy was right about how this community would grow, and how the business would grow with it.'”

CITI COULD GO HYBRID LONGTERM
Crain’s has more on the return to workers in Tribeca, but a new detail emerged: that Citi workers can go hyrbid. Here’s some more details on when and where the banks will return to the neighborhood.

BRONX CHEERS IN SOHO
amNY covered Wednesday’s public hearing on the Soho/Noho rezoning plan where it got a less than welcome reception, and some used Tribeca as an argument. “The rezoning has potential to be profoundly damaging to the designated landmarks that the historic district encompasses and to the practice of historic preservation throughout New York City,” Helen Freeman from the Historic Districts Council said. “To imply that landmarking prevents the development of new housing is simply not correct. Look at Dumbo, Gansevoort, Tribeca and even SoHo and NoHo. The population in all these formerly commercial neighborhoods has increased after they were landmarked.”