TRASH FIRES UP CHURCH STREET
In the bad news department, K. was walking back from the post office this morning and caught sight of small fires in trash cans and boxes heading up Church Street. Clearly deliberate. As she said: “Small, not life threatening, but disturbing.” The FDNY put them out one by one.

SIDEWALK SALE AT LOLA TRIBECA TOMORROW
Lola Tribeca, the little shop on Harrison, will have a big sidewalk sale tomorrow, May 1, from 11a to 5p, where jewelry will be up to 70 percent off.

BROADWAY GETS PLAQUE FOR ESSENTIAL WORKERS
The mayor and several deputy mayors — Lorraine Grillo, Meera Joshi, Maria Torres-Springer, Anne Williams-Isom and Sheena Wright joined the Downtown Alliance to dedicate the newest granite plaque embedded in the Broadway sidewalk to essential workers. This one — the 208th — is just south of Murray and reads “New York City’s Essential Workers During the Covid 19 Pandemic.” (The ticker-tape parade was last July.) The first officially recognized ticker-tape parade in 1919 welcomed home soldiers who fought in World War I.

MARC FORGIONE TAKING OVER ONE FIFTH
Marc Forgione is expanding his reach and taking over the restaurant at One Fifth, the former home of Mario Batali’s Italian restaurant Otto Enoteca Pizzeria, which closed in the fall of 2020 amid charges of sexual harassment. Forgione has started a new restaurant group, Respect Hospitality, in partnership with Après Cru Hospitality that includes Peasant and Restaurant Marc Forgione. The latter will move to the old Brushstroke space on Hudson early next year.

Just to bring it full-circle Tribeca, it was working at the former iconic restaurant One Fifth that Lynn Wagenknecht and brothers Keith and Brian McNally hatched the plans for The Odeon in 1980.

AND CITY WINERY ADDING A GCT OUTPOST
Tribecan Michael Dorf is adding to his City Winery / City Vineyard empire with a new location in Grand Central: Crain’s reports that City Winery will operate a new, 15,888-square-foot venue on the western side of Vanderbilt Hall with a gastropub, a bar-restaurant and a grab-and-go retail operation, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority records reviewed by Crain’s.