NEW KIDS: CANAL STREET OYSTERS
The ninth project for the brothers Martignetti, who for years had Brinkley’s in Soho, Canal Street Oysters breathes life once again into the historic Rawitzer building on Canal.

BPC WILL COMPOST DOG WASTE AT ITS DOG RUNS
The Battery Park City Authority will start collecting and composting the dog poop produced in the area’s three dog runs, at a rate of 75 pounds per day.

CB1 FRUSTRATED OVER FILM SHOOT OFFENSE
A shoot for the TV show “FBI” defies the community board and takes over half the alternate street parking in the neighborhood.

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: 81 LEONARD GALLERY
Nancy Pantirer has been making art at 81 Leonard for 23 years, albeit with the curtains drawn. She and her partner have now opened a gallery in the space and pulled up the shades.

IN THE NEWS
Tribeca Pointe resident arrested for sexual assault of neighbors. Plus a shout out to the new West Thames bridge; another gallery immigrant coming from Chelsea; a retail vacancy report from the comptroller’s office blames city regs.

CORTLANDT ALLEY PAINTING MYSTERY SOLVED
Diana Wege’s Earth Requiem series takes a classic — Hudson River School painter Frederic Church’s Niagara Falls painting — and defaces it, as we have done to nature with our carelessness.

WHERE IN TRIBECA?
The years have not been kind to this little cherub (or is it a sun goddess?) but she’s still hanging on. Where is she?