LOCAL STUDENTS IN TEMPORARY SHELTERS
The Broadsheet dug into recently released Department of Education statistics for the 2022-23 academic year to learn that 301 students at 10 elementary, middle and high schools in Lower Manhattan are in temporary housing. “Among local elementary and middle schools, Tribeca’s P.S. 234 had six students in temporary housing, while the Spruce Street School had 18. The DOE had no data for P.S. 150, P.S./I.S. 276, or the Peck Slip School. The Lower Manhattan Community Middle School (at 26 Broadway) had 19 students in temporary housing, 12 of whom were in shelters, with the remaining seven doubled up.”

ARTIST’S ELABORATE LOFT FOR SALE
The artist Meghan Boody is selling her cool and kooky apartment at 115 West Broadway (above Onda) and moving to a chateau in France, Curbed reports. She bought it in 1995 for $530,000 and is listing it for $5.3 million. From New York Magazine: “As she has created this body of work, which has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum and acquired by the Whitney, Boody has built a fantastical world for herself. In her fifth-floor apartment in Tribeca, a warren of half-hidden, wallpapered rooms unfold around an 800-square-foot, 18-foot-high ceilinged great room. Boody arrived in the building — a former shoe factory — in 1993 as a renter, taking over a space where artists had been living and working — with one part set up for metalwork and welding.”

THE HOLDOUTS: ARTISTS LOFTS IN THE CITY
The Times has a feature on the survival of artists’ lofts, “against all odds,” including 64 Fulton, home to about 20 artists (above Midtown Comics), and that belonging to Don Dudley and Shirley Irons at 70 Thomas, who moved there in 1971, renting the top two floors for $400. It includes a great story of how they were able to buy the building back from the city in what sounds like a sweat-equity deal. From The Times: “Things were fine until the landlord sold the building to some Iranians; it came in a bundle with a bunch of other buildings in TriBeCa. The new owners now wanted $1,000 a floor. But they couldn’t get rid of us and finally just abandoned the building. They’d bought a dozen buildings, and I guess they figured they could just let this one go. The city took it over for lack of tax payment in the early ’80s, then sold it back to us for $100,000 — or $20,000 a floor. We had a great lawyer.”

ESTONIAN ART FAIR FROM MARGOT SAMEL
Tribeca gallerist Margot Samel will run an art fair called Esther from the New York Estonian House on East 34th Street, running May 1 through 4, Artnews reports. It will gather 25 galleries will take up residence in various rooms, hallways and other spaces. Two Estonians are behind the project: Samel and Olga Temnikova, of Tallin’s Temnikova & Kasela.