WAGNER PARK READY FOR FLOODS
The Trib has a thorough review of the resiliency plans coming from the Battery Park City Authority for its waterfront parks, including a redesigned Wagner Park and new pavilion and a terraced seating area in front of Pier A.

MICHELLE AT FRENCHETTE
Page Six reports that Michelle Obama ate at Frenchette after chatting with Oprah Winfrey at Barclays as part of the TV mogul’s “Your Life in Focus” tour.

I’M A BUSINESS, MAN
I am late on this, but here’s the Times review (or NPR if you prefer) of the Jay-Z biography by sociologist Michael Eric Dyson, who has taught a class on the rapper mogul at Georgetown for 10 years: “Jay-Z is always looking for his next deal, his next scheme, a new invention,” Dyson says. “He started out selling drugs, and then he mastered the record industry,” and from there he branched out to “clothing, alcohol, sports agencies, you name it. Hustling is the central motif of his life.”

HOTEL INDIGO TOPS OUT AT 120 WATER
Adding to the hotel list, New York YIMBY reports that Hotel Indigo at 120 Water (that’s the rendering above) has topped out — 28 stories shoved into a sliver between Wall and Pine. (Good access to Dead Rabbit and Crown Shy…)