STROLLING CANAL STREET
The Times covers the length of Canal Street from east to west to show you — if you don’t already know — what’s there in images, text and video. “Canal’s identity is tied up with timeless entropy, untidy humanness and disarranged beauty, reflecting the city around it. Over the centuries, it has gone through many iterations. As it’s once more on the brink of change, what can one street still show us?”

STOP THE CHOP AND THE WESTSIDE HELIPORT
The Broadsheet covers the continuing annoyance that is helicopters over Downtown via a CB1 meeting on the issue: “Stop the Chop board member Kenneth Lay contended that flights to and from the West 30th Street Heliport (located in Hudson River Park) that are not related to government, military, law enforcement, media, or lifesaving operations should be drastically curtailed. ‘We term non-essential helicopters those that are commuter, charter, and sightseeing flights.'”

FIGHTING THE ILLEGAL VENDORS ON CANAL
The Post did a story about the counterfeit vendors on Canal, quoting Wellington Chen, executive director of the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation: “On certain streets you cannot even pass by,” he said. “You have to wait for people to squeeze by. It’s a game of cat and mouse. You put pressure on one corner and they move down to the other corner, and the next morning they’re back.”

BLAMING RENTS ON BROKERAGE
Gothamist has a story about two Tribeca tenants who have accused the rental giant Compass of monopolizing Manhattan rentals and hiding listings from public-facing platforms like StreetEasy.

COMMERCIAL SPACES FILLING UP DOWNTOWN
Curbed has a story on the “Return-to-Office Boom” with the following stats: “Downtown, most of the new World Trade Center buildings are 90 percent occupied, according to the Savills broker Azovtsev, driving rents up. “At 4 World Trade Center, asking rents were under $90 per square foot eight months ago. They’re now $120. At 7 World Trade Center, rents are $115–$130 per square foot. We haven’t seen rents like that ever.” One World Trade Center, which is 97 percent leased, has competing offers for the limited space that’s still available, according to a spokesperson for the Durst Organization.”