ACQUIRING ART AT THE TRIBECA BALL
Vogue covered the annual Tribeca Ball hosted by the New York Academy of Art on Franklin, which includes an open studio night for their students (I have gotten two great pieces there). “The only art in my house, aside from Andy Warhol, Keith [Haring], and two pieces by Will Cotton, is from the New York Academy of Art,” Brooke Shields told Vogue, noting this marked her 12th time attending the ball. “It’s my whole house. I’ve got no more wall space — but I do have a wall of small works, so that’s usually what I bring home now.”

PLAYING DRESS-UP WITH FOUNDERS OF QUARTERS
The owners of the lighting design firm In Common With, Felicia Hung and Nick Ozemba, who just opened a bar at their showroom on Broadway called Quarters, are featured in Esquire with a Q&A and a fashion show of their “fits.” As for Quarters, “We wanted this to feel more like a residence and show people how to live with the product that we designed,” the pair told Esquire. “All the lighting in here is products we’ve made. We’re dipping our toes into producing furniture, which is what both of our backgrounds are in.”

RESTRICTING TOURIST HELICOPTER RIDES?
Crain’s reports that the helicopter crash that took place last week in the Hudson off Pier 40, killing six, has reignited the debate over allowing the use of helicopters for tourism in the city. Crain’s said dozens of crashes have killed 38 people since 1977.

BUILDING OUT A TRICKY TRIBECA ROOFDECK
I will let you eagle-eyed neighbors figure out this building, but in the meantime there are some good roof deck tips from this Domino feature on Kat Aul Cervoni, the founder of the landscape studio Staghorn NYC, who tricked out the roof of a lowrise 1899 Tribeca building — I think it’s her own?