BREAKING Notify NYC just sent out an alert: “Police activity at the Winter Garden Atrium in Battery Park City, expect heavy delays around lower Manhattan.” Will update here when (if) I learn more.

LEAVING Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, the architecture firm at 100 Reade, is leaving the neighborhood because it couldn’t find suitably large space. The new location hasn’t been finalized yet.

AROUND THE WEB The Soda Shop on Chambers has closed (Broadsheet Daily). That’s Chambers Street: One step up, two steps back. ••• Macao Trading Co. pastry chef Victoria Howe is opening an “underground” bakery inside her Chinatown apartment: “Invited guests will visit for four hours in the late afternoon or early evening to eat as many sweets (served with coffee and tea) as they’d like for $10. Visitors can hang out, watch a movie, or read the paper while trying ‘more fancy, traditional stuff’ from Howe’s dessert repertoire, like Bavarian cream or opera cake—’stuff I never get to make but always want to make,’ she says.” (Grub Street). ••• A new school-zoning plan seems to be making parents happier (Tribeca Trib). ••• Babesta Cribz is selling lots of a new gadget that allows people to attach a cell phone (so they can text) to a stroller (New York Daily News) ••• NY Waterway is doing something about the ferry noise problem (Broadsheet Daily).