VIVVI TAKING OVER TRINITY PRESCHOOL
Vivvi Early Learning, which opened its first preschool/day care center this summer on Canal Street, will assume operations of Trinity Preschool starting Sept. 1, 2020. This will be Vivvi’s second location, and will triple its footprint. Trinity Preschool was opened by the church in 1982 at 68 Trinity Place and moved in 2014 to its current home at 50 Park Place. The move will allow the church to focus more in its other initiatives, including the opening of the Trinity Commons — the church’s new parish building at 76 Trinity Place — in 2020.

NEW BAR FOR 88 WEST BROADWAY?
The old Jamba Juice space, which was another juice bar and Baked by Nowakowski for a hot second, has a liquor license notice that was not on CB1’s original agenda. The corp name is Zehuse Tribeca, and they are gunning for 2a on the weekends, which I believe by CB1 standards is allowed on the avenues. No web fingerprint that I can find. Stay tuned…

FIDI RESIDENT PUBLISHES DEBUT NOVEL
K.C. Maher has released her debut novel — “The Best of Crimes” — available now at Amazon. The author, who lives with her two children and husband on Nassau Street, grew up outside of Chicago and has been writing fiction all her adult life, including short stories and flash fictions for the UK ‘zine The View From Here. She describes her novel as “an unconventional love story that will challenge your preconceptions. It may even restore your faith in good men.” See more of her work here.

YOUR ELECTEDS: TAKING ON THE ROBOTS
Local electeds Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou and Senator Brad Hoylman are urging the passage of the Robocall Prevention Act, which would ban unwanted robocalls in the state of New York by:
• requiring telephone service providers to make call blocking technology available to their customers free of charge;
• allowing New Yorkers to revoke their consent to receive robocalls, and requiring robocallers to comply with a request to stop calling or face significant penalties;
• enacting state-level prohibitions against fraudulent caller ID spoofing by robocallers;
• giving the New York State Attorney General new authority to pursue penalties against illegal robocallers;
• giving New Yorkers a private right of action to go after violators themselves, and allowing courts to award treble damages for those who knowingly and willfully violate the law; and
• requiring the Department of State and the Department of Public Service to annually report on illegal robocalls made to New Yorkers.
There have been 2.3 billion robocalls placed to New Yorkers so far this year — giving us the dubious distinction of being third in the nation in robocalls. Yay.

CRUMMY WAY TO START THE SCHOOL YEAR
A DOE busload of local kids heading to their first day of school at Avenues — and for one Reade Street girl, it was her first day EVER — had to be evacuated after the bus was leaking gas on Hudson Street. Not an auspicious start to the school year. The city has struggled with providing reliable, efficient bus service for its school kids — my daughter rode one for a few years and there were times it took her an hour and a half to get to Kip’s Bay. But this may be a new low.