COENTIES SLIP AND THE NY ART SCENE
The New Yorker reviews “The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever” by the critic Prudence Peiffer who traces the history of Coenties Slip starting in the 1950s, and how it became a “bright, teeming hothouse of the New York avant-garde.” “The fibre artist Lenore Tawney moved into 27 Coenties Slip in 1957, the same year that Kelly persuaded the actress Delphine Seyrig and her husband, the painter Jack Youngerman, to live in the same building. Kelly also helped recruit Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, and Robert Clark, who hadn’t yet changed his surname to Indiana, let alone scattered “LOVE” sculptures across the planet.”

A BIG CONVERSION FOR FIDI
The Real Deal reports that Silverstein Properties and Metro Loft Management have closed on 55 Broad, which they bought for $172.5 million from the Rudin family. They will convert the 30-story, 410,000-square-foot building into 571 market-rate apartments.

…AND A BIGGER ONE DOWN THE STREET
Yimby reports that Preparation work has begun for the conversion of 25 Water Street, aka 4 New York Plaza, the 22-story former office building at the corner of Broad. There will be 10 new stories added “above the parapet of the existing structure, the replacement of its brick façade with a modern fenestration with more expansive windows, and the gut renovation of its 1.1 million square feet of interiors into 1,300 rental units. When complete, the conversion will be the largest ever in the United States by unit count, surpassing the recent redevelopment of One Wall Street with its 566 condominiums.”

TRIBECA: UP AND COMING
Two of the Real Housewives of New York had a little tiff when one housewife, Chelsea resident Jessel Taank, told another, Tribecan Erin Lichy, that Tribeca was “up and coming.” Hilarity ensues. The Daily Beast loved it.