CRICKET’S CANDY CREATIONS
M. spotted it first at the site of the former Aroyo Hair Salon at 200 Hudson — Cricket’s Candy Creations is a pop-up for the next year (I met the manager when I went by last week) and they should be open by now. Kids make their own candy at different stations inside — think edible slime, chocolate pizza, candy sushi. Cricket Azima has been in the food industry for a couple decades — she is a trained chef, author, educator and founder of the Creative Kitchen and Kids Food Festival — but this may be her first brick and mortar…

CLOTHING DRIVE FROM HRP MAMAS
HRP Mamas is running its annual partnership with Giving Factory Direct to send new or gently used clothing directly to a specific child in need. Use the code HRPMamas1121 when donating so they can track the neighborhood’s impact within the program. Link is here.

SILVERSTEIN ON AVOIDING OLD FOGIES
The Times wrote up the Frank Stella installation at 7 WTC and C. caught this last line at the end of the story from Larry Silverstein on why he and his wife left Midtown and moved to the top of the Four Seasons building: all of their neighbors were “a bunch of old fogies like us,” as Silverstein put it. “And I finally said, I think it’s time to get the hell out of here.” Downtown, he said, is way more lively. “You’ve got baby carriages and mothers and pets,” Silverstein continued. “I don’t know where they got the money to pay for these apartments, but they’re young. It’s phenomenal.”

LE COUCOU HAS REOPENED
J. sent word that Le Coucou — Stephen Starr’s collab with chef Daniel Rose that opened in 2016 on Lafayette just north of Canal — re-opened on Nov 3.