WHEN TRIBECA HAD HORSES
The Tribeca Trib had a lookback on the days when the NYPD stabled their horses at the 1st Precinct on Varick — the mounted unity Troop A, which left permanently more than a decade ago. Not long before the stables closed in 2011, the Trib got a last look inside.

NEW GALLERY ON THE BLOCK: JAMES FUENTES
Artsy has a feature on James Fuentes, the gallerist who worked for art dealer Jeffrey Deitch. From Artsy: “Still in his twenties, he briefly thought about leaving the gallery world behind, but instead stumbled upon a two-story building on Saint James Place in New York’s Chinatown…Then, in 2007, Fuentes and his now-wife, Branwen Jones (who is a partner at David Zwirner), moved into the apartment upstairs…By 2010, Fuentes had relocated the gallery to a more prominent location on Delancey Street in the Lower East Side, a move that would cement the gallery as a pillar of the neighborhood’s art scene.” He opened at 52 White this spring.

70 BROAD FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
Crain’s reports that the owner of 70 Broad, the American Bank Note Building on the corner of Beaver and Marketfield streets, which is a city landmark, has filed for bankruptcy. From Crain’s: “The company is valuing the 5-story building, notable for its granite columns and eagle sculpture perched over its entrance, at $16 million, according to court documents.”

NYAA AND THE FIGURATIVE RESURGANCE
Artnet has a story about the New York Academy of Art and its low profile in the high ranks of the art world. From artnet: “Unlike [Rhode Island School of Design, The Art Institute of Chicago, Yale, Columbia] which are widely known for graduating artists who quickly rise to the industry’s upper echelons, the NYAA may cut a lower profile, but it attracts students from all over the world and, as it happens, turns out artists who are rising to equally elevated places. Unlike those other programs, the NYAA is well known for a deep training in craft that may be less stressed at many top schools.”