CITY MAKING RESIDENTIAL CONVERSIONS EASIER
Crain’s has an old story but still a relevant one on the city easing regulations to allow for more residential conversions: “The recommendations would provide an additional 136 million square feet of the city’s office space with the most flexible regulations around conversions. They would have the potential to create up to 20,000 new homes for 40,000 New Yorkers over the next 10 years, according to the Adams administration.”

THE LAST DUMPLING SHOP IN THE EAST BWAY MALL
Eater has a story on the last dumpling shop in the East Broadway Mall under the Manhattan Bridge: Fu Zhou Wei Zhong Wei Jia Xiang Feng Wei, which roughly translates to “the tastiest Fuzhou hometown-flavor restaurant.” The mall is largely abadoned, but the restaurant is still bustling. “My favorite things on the menu, though, are the bamboo shoot cakes that pile up on a metal tray just above the cash register. They look like dim sum-style sesame balls, but they are filled with sweet and savory bamboo and pork strips. Ordering one, along with everything else on the menu, will set you back just $27.50, pre-tax — one of the cheapest and tastiest feasts you can get in Chinatown.”

SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD AT 125 NEWBURY
The Times recommends seeing Sylvia Plimack Mangold at 125 Newbury, the Pace gallery on Broadway and Walker. The 15 paintings “all depict a single maple tree living outside her studio in Washingtonville, N.Y., that she has been painting for decades. Many … capture a green-filled summer rendered, close-up, in lush but no-nonsense brushstrokes reminiscent of Fairfield Porter or Édouard Manet.”

LUXURY TOWERS COMING TO PIER 40
In case you are wondering about the final lot across from Pier 40, which has broken ground, Yimby has a preview: 570 Washington was designed by COOKFOX Architects and developed by Zeckendorf Development, Atlas Capital, and The Baupost Group and is a $1.25 billion complex with a 29- and 36-story tower rising 400 and 450 feet and an undisclosed number of condominium units and commercial space.