9/11 TRIBUTE MUSEUM MAY CLOSE
The Journal reports that the 9/11 Tribute Museum on Greenwich and Rector which opened in 2006 and was designed to serve survivors, has run up too much debt and will likely have to close. From the WSJ: “The museum’s reliance on international tourism proved unsustainable during the Covid-19 pandemic, as foreign arrivals plummeted. Admissions to the Greenwich Street nonprofit fell to 26,000 last year, down 83% from its 150,000 visitors in 2019. The number of domestic and foreign tourists visiting New York City dropped by about 50% to 33 million over the same period.”

LIVING NEXT TO TAYLOR
The Post takes stock of Taylor Swifts’s Tribeca holdings on Franklin, now that an apartment on her same floor is for sale.

WAYFINDING IN CHINESE NO MORE
The Times has a very cool interactive piece on the Chinese street signs in Chinatown, which first appeared in the 1960s, were expanded in the 1980s, but are now being replaced slowly with English-only.

A PUBLIC BUILDING CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC
New York magazine’s Curbed has a story about the Battery Maritime Building’s history and how while it was once a public building, and the city invested public dollars into its preservation, it is now almost fully private — as a club and hotel run by Cipriani. A pal and I walked down to see if they would let us see it and we could not go past the lobby (I will try again in a media capacity when I have a chance). From Curbed: “In the early 2000s, the city hired Jan Hird Pokorny Architects to carry out a $58 million renovation of the exterior, which left the building an elegant shell, vacant and useless, except for the corner that served (and still serves) as a portal to Governors Island….The resurrection of the Battery Maritime Building as part of Ciprianiworld comes as a mixed blessing. On the one hand, the building is once again handsome, weatherproof, and alive. On the other, it’s still mostly out of bounds, a no-go zone of luxury rather than of neglect.”