THE COCKTAIL HEATMAP
Eater puts Holywater, the cocktail bar on Reade from the brothers who run the Grand Banks, and PS, the hidden speakeasy bar at Pine & Polk, on its list of hottest cocktail bars.

GOLDMAN PREPPING FOR BIG JOB CUTS
I am adding this here just so we can track how the local office buildings are contributing to the neighborhood’s small businesses: Crain’s reports that Goldman Sachs plans to eliminate several hundred roles starting this month, “according to people with knowledge of the matter. While the total number is less than some previous rounds, the reductions are a resumption of Goldman’s annual culling cycle that it had largely paused during the pandemic.”

RESCUE IN THE HUDSON
The Trib has a story of two men — Ggood Samaritans — who came to the rescue of a man who was in the river, throwing him one of the life rings attached to the railing and holding on until Marine 1 could pull him out.

CULTURE THAT ATTRACTS CAPITAL
Ronald Perelman, whose name will be on the Performing Arts Center at the WTC, has an oped in the Post about its opening next year, and the power of the arts to bring a neighborhood alive. “People had already tried — and failed — in the ’70s to reinvigorate downtown with office space alone. The vision was to use the arts to give a shot in the arm to what had historically been a 9-5 business district. And I was a big believer it could work. Music and the arts have an economic power as well as a healing power.”

THE DAYS AND MONTHS FOLLOWING 9/11
The Daily News ran an opinion piece by Battery Park City resident Christina Ray Stanton, which gives a shoutout to her neighbors who decided to stay in their apartments right after 9/11: “As first responders sifted through debris and moved mounds of rubble, Financial District residents swept their homes and restocked their shops and began to find ways back to normal. The 25,000 people who lived in the neighborhoods surrounding Ground Zero played an important role in restoring this city after 9/11, and their sacrifices have been mostly overlooked.”