WOODEN TUG CRUISES FROM SEAPORT
The South Street Seaport Museum is offering new public tours of the harbor and the statue on the 1930s wooden tugboat, the W.O. Decker. The 60-minute public cruises go out Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 2p and 7p, and on Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30p, 3p, 4:30p and 7p. Tickets are $35 for adults; $29 for seniors and kids. NB: Children under 10 not permitted. Museum admission included with ticket. Cruises at 7p do not include museum admission and are $25. Click for tickets

LOCAL WRITER OPENS NEW PLAY
Local resident Catherine Higgins-Moore has written and directs a new play called “The Maternity Monologues,” which explores issues of birth, pregnancy and motherhood. The show will run Sept. 5, 7, 8, 11 and 12 at Theater for the New City’s Community Space, 155 First Ave. Short-listed by BBC World Service from over 1,500 plays, the show examines some startling facts about childbearing in the US: American women are 50 percent more likely to die in childbirth than their mothers and the U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world.

Higgins-Moore is an internationally published Northern Irish writer and was chosen as one of BBC’s International Playwriting Award 2018 Ones to Watch and nominated for the 2019 Harper Collins Comedy Women in Print Prize. She writes for The Times Literary Supplement, is founding editor of The Irish Literary Review and has worked as a journalist at BBC. Her plays have appeared at The Oxford Playhouse and the Lyric Theatre, among others.

LAST NIGHT OF GET LOW – AT CROWN SHY
This is the last night of the 20 percent off promotion from the Downtown Alliance’s list of new neighborhood restaurants – and it’s at Crown Shy. The deal is 20 percent off dinner for two, not including drinks.

NEW FAST CASUAL PASTA IN FIDI
Maestro Pasta at 45 John Street is serving a mix-and-match pasta menu, where you not only pick your own shape of pasta, but you can pick your own dough – whole wheat, classic or farro – and then your choice of proteins, sauces and toppings. There’s also lasagna and mac & cheese.

CALLING ALL ELOISE FANS
If you were as crazy for those books as I was as a kid: the Skyscraper Museum at 39 Battery Place is hosting a free talk at 6:30p on Wednesday evening about The Plaza by Julie Satow, the author of “The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Famous Hotel.” She will discuss the history of the 112-year-old building and the stories of those who have lived and worked there.