MICHEL COHEN’S RED HOOK GALLERY SETS SAIL
Brownstoner has a story about Michel Cohen’s wild-looking gallery in Red Hook — Project Genesis.

REZONE SOHO AND NOHO
Crain’s has an op-ed calling on the city to rezone Soho and Noho in order to protect their landmarks, small businesses and small buildings.

PAY TO PLAY SCHEME AT WTC
Shocking news from Crain’s: “Attorney General Letitia James’ office charged a former World Trade Center electric manager and two contractors for what the attorney general called a “pay-to-play” bribery scheme at the Port Authority site. In the alleged scheme, contractors provided unauthorized gifts worth thousands of dollars to the former manager in exchange for confidential information on future work at the World Trade Center as well as preferential treatment, according to the indictment.”

FILM PERMIT WAR IN SOHO
This is old news, but relevant to those of us who live with film permit issues day after day: Gothamist reported that a large pink banner decrying film crews in NYC was hanging across the length of the Julia Testa Florist storefront at 111 Thompson Street in Soho last month, where it was hung as Sofia Coppola’s new movie, “On The Rocks” (starring Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, and Marlon Wayans) filmed nearby. The sign read: “Movie shoots kill small business. Come in, we’re open! Don’t let them bully you, you’re allowed to walk past.”

BARNETT NEWMAN TRIANGLE? PLEASE?
Patch reports that CB1 is pushing the developer of 100 Franklin to get going on a rehab of Barnett Newman Triangle — the concrete triangle between Sixth Avenue, White Street and Church Street that was expected to become a lush plaza — fit with benches, a handful of trees and greenery.