MAPPING THE HIGH WATERS TO COME
I’ll come back to this, but if you want to read a bit more about the risk of flooding for NYC, Crain’s has digested some data from the First Street Foundation, a Brooklyn-based non-profit that crunches climate data. They estimate that by 2050, the risk will be amplified by 20 percent, and that parts of BK and Queens are most at risk. If you hover over our neighborhoods on the map they created, BPC Tribeca and even the Seaport are at relatively low risk, which seems surprising…

POP STARS LOVE BALLOON SALOON
It struck me as funny that The Times used Balloon Saloon as the setting for a profile of pop musician Rina Sawayama — fake poop and all. The interview took place over fries at the Odeon.

CELEBRITIES LOVE FRESH VEGGIES
And also from The Times, a feature on One White’s Tuesday farm stand (chef Austin Johnson tells me the store is about a month away) and the celebrities that happen to stop by.

THE HISTORY OF THE SKYBRIDGE
Since the Staple Street skybridge just sold, The Trib decided to use that as an opportunity to rerun an excerpt from an article on Staple Street by the late Oliver E. Allen, a longtime resident of Hudson who was the Trib’s “Old Tribeca” history columnist and the author of “Tribeca: A Pictorial History.”