SPEECH & LANGUAGE PRACTICE IN BPC
Battery Park City resident Katie Stricker has founded Mindful Speech and Learning — a boutique private speech therapy practice for children, adolescents and young adults. Stricker is a nationally certified speech-language pathologist and a full-time learning specialist and has specialized training in many programs, including the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading, Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD), The Writing Revolution, Social Thinking, and PROMPT therapy. She also provides reading and writing interventions, executive function coaching, and the development of pragmatics/social skills.

SEAPORT BOOK CLUB
The South Street Seaport Museum and McNally Jackson Books will host a free Book Club event on Sept. 25 at 6:30p discussing the Jennifer Egan novel “Manhattan Beach.” Learn more here.

OPEN HOUSE AT PACNYC
The new Perelman Performing Arts Center will have a free family day on Sept. 30 from 10a to 4p. More than 100 artists will present hip hop workshops, performances, interactive creation stations, dance battles and much more. Reservations are not required but encouraged.

VENDORS REMOVED FROM BRIDGE?
A reader sent this photo on Tuesday — it looks police and sanitation had started seizing illegal souvenir merchandise off the Brooklyn Bridge.