NOSY NEIGHBOR: WHEN WILL BUDDHA BAR OPEN?
The restaurant and bar — along with its partner restaurant Assunta Rome — is aiming now for a September unveiling.

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VENDING MACHINE ARRIVES AT 1/2/3 STATION
This is one of only three in the city — part of a two-year pilot program between the MTA and CVS — and it’s offering a real variety: tampons, toothpaste, beef jerky, condoms and more!

SEEN & HEARD
Movies at Governors Island. Plus Dianne Talan at 50 White; Brookfield’s free summer workouts on the plaza; Holy Ground branches out; a view of a past public art work on Duane.

SEEN & HEARD
City cars towed from Reade Street. Plus Roly Poly Guacamole in Washington Market Park CANCELLED; through traffic on Park Place; the Oculus Greenmarket moves back outside.

IN THE NEWS: JON STEWART BLASTS CONGRESS
“I am awfully tired of hearing that 9/11 is a New York issue. Al Qaeda didn’t shout, ‘Death to Tribeca.’ They attacked America, and these men and women, and their response to it, is what brought our country back.”

PORTFOLIO SCHOOL EXPANDING AND MOVING TO HUDSON
The Portfolio School opened here in 2016. And as of this fall, it is expanding at its new location on 90 Hudson and eventually will have grades K through 12.

WHERE IN (NOT) TRIBECA?
There seem to be a lot of nautical themes in this neck of the woods, though this quirky one also includes a native Westsider: the seahorse. (Though these guys look especially fierce.)