CELEBRATE THE SEASON IN DUANE PARK
The Friends of Duane Park will host a performance by the Stuyvesant High School Choir on Thursday, Dec. 16, 6 to 7p. THere will also be festive beverages and holiday treats.

POPULATION UP BY 34 PERCENT IN FIDI/BPC
The Downtown Alliance crunched the census numbers and figured out that the Financial District/Battery Park City is the city’s fourth fastest growling residential neighborhood. It’s grown by 34 percent since 2010. Long Island City came in number one at 198% spike in population over the last 10 years, then Williamsburg at 41% and Downtown Brooklyn-Dumbo-Boerum Hill at 67%. Tribeca saw a modest residential increase of 19% growth and placed at 16.

BECOMING DR. RUTH
Tovah Feldshuh is starring in a play about Dr. Ruth at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, running now through Jan. 2. Becoming Dr. Ruth, a one-woman show, chronicles the life of noted psychologist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, from her early years fleeing Nazi Germany, living as an orphan in Switzerland, to her service in the Israeli armed forces as a sharpshooter, and her later life and career in New York.

IF YOU WALK THE RIVER UP TO CHELSEA…
You can now walk thDwne perimeter of Pier 57, the historic structure at 15th Street with City Winery in the headhouse on West Street. It’s a great walk since the pier is especially long at 875 feet (though Pier 25 is the longest in the park at 985).