25 YEARS OF A WATERFRONT PARK
The Times has a feature on Hudson River Park and its 25-year transformation of the West Side. The story mostly covers Pier 97 and Gansevoort Peninsula (thanks to MSG for the shot of it from the Whitney), which open in the next months, but we know the Tribeca segment is the best. (wink)

AT THE TOP OF THE CAST IRON HOUSE
6sqft has a tour of the penthouse at the Cast Iron House, the modern addition designed by Shigeru Ban atop the historic 67 Franklin on Broadway.

PYTHONS IN BATTERY PARK
The Broadsheet reported that two Downtown residents were evicted for housing a 12-foot python and a 6-foot at their apartment near Battery Park. For the past couple years they were set up in the park where people could take pictures with the snakes around their necks. The DEC’s Wildlife Response Team took the snakes to a licensed reptile refuge.

OFFICE OCCUPANCY AT 50 PERCENT
Crain’s reports that for the third time since March 2020, the city’s in-office occupancy exceeded 50 percent of prepandemic levels last week — an increase of 7 percent since the Labor Day week. New York lags behind other major cities, but they are also well below pre-pandemic occupancy. The data from the real estate technology firm Kastle Systems, which tracks badge swipes at commercial office buildings in ten major U.S. cities.