MONSTERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
I spent a few soggy hours in the march from Bryant Park on Saturday, and of course there was a Tribeca connection: next to us the whole time was this fabulous giant puppet monster from art collective Leroy’s Place. And who was one of the three puppeteers? Our own Abby Levin, the longtime director of development for Church Street School of Music & Art.

ONLY THE BEST FOR THE FINEST
I thought The Odeon had a police officer on guard when I stopped by the other day — maybe some sort of fracas? But in fact he was just waiting for his to-go order: French onion soup.

THE LATEST CRISIS AT WHOLE FOODS
I couldn’t find ricotta cheese at Whole Foods the other day — the staffer told me it was still fallout from the cyber attack on the food distributor Natural Foods Inc., which became aware of the attack on June 5. I missed this in the national news cycle, but NBC News reported: “It comes in the wake of a series of cyberattacks where a notorious cybercriminal gang has been targeting major retail customers with ransomware, rendering key systems inoperable as hackers demand payment.”

PLUS POOL TESTER COMING NEXT SPRING
The Plus Pool folks have just finished the steel test pool — it’s a rectangle, not a plus-shape — which will come to the East River in May 26, at Pier 35 just north of the Manhattan Bridge. The rectangle pool will be swimmable once all the testing of the filtration system is finished. To follow their progress, check out the newsletter here.