THE HALL IS OPEN IN THE CLOCK TOWER BUILDING
Surface magazine reports that Jack Shainman’s new gallery in the Clock Tower Building, The Hall, at 46 Lafayette, is now open, though the grand opening will be in September. “Completed in 1894 by McKim, Mead, and White, considered the godfathers of Gilded Age architecture, the palazzo-style building is pure ornamental splendor: a preponderance of marble, Corinthian columns, and gilded ceilings…The Hall’s grand opening will take place in September with a new exhibition of sculptures by Nick Cave, but it soft launches tonight with Broken Spectre, a video installation by Richard Mosse that chronicles the destruction of the Amazon at the hands of greed and corruption.”

NOT MUCH FOR $1700
No shocker, but the Tribeca zip code 10013 made The Times’ list of the least square-footage for your money when it comes to rent. The average national rent is $1700, and that gets you 211 feet here. “The most expensive was 10013, encompassing parts of Lower Manhattan and TriBeCa. The $1,700 national average rent afforded just 211 square feet there. A quick Zillow search showed zero rentals available at $1,700 a month or less in that ZIP, and just 13 apartments listed at or below that price in all of Manhattan.”

CONTEMPORARY ART AT 70 VESTRY
Tatler Asia has a feature on a three-bedroom pied-à-terre designed by Jae Joo for an Asian family that often travels for work and would meet in Tribeca for the holidays. Some of the art came from the Bortolami Gallery.

CLOUD CITY AT CAST IRON HOUSE
The interior designer Timothy Godbold had a lot of fun with plaster at the home of Inna Khidekel and Bert van der Walt in Shigeru Ban’s Cast Iron House on Broadway. From Curbed: “Godbold referenced his favorite sci-fi movie sets for decorative elements. ‘The plasterwork was inspired by a wall detail I had seen in Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back.’ The dressing room gives a nod to the Fortress of Solitude in the 1978 Superman movie.”