Courtesy Madamnburz (via DNAinfo)

••• Gawker (possibly NSFW) and DNAinfo weigh in on the “sex cave” hosting “fire massages” on Reade Street.

••• “With kindergarten capacity of Lower Manhattan schools stretched to their limits this fall, the city’s Department of Education revealed its fallback plans for the overflow of students.” (Tribeca Trib)

••• “Relief could be on the way for Battery Park City homeowners facing steep tax hikes. Over the next two years, residents at 11 B.P.C. buildings are slated to pay up to $300 more each month in ground rent. Worried that the spike will force people out of the neighborhood, the 11 buildings recently drafted a proposal to mitigate the increase.” (Downtown Express)

By Rebecca McAlpin (courtesy Wall Street Journal)

••• Edward Albee shows the Wall Street Journal around his Harrison Street loft: “An elevator opens into a corner of one enormous room with exposed brick walls, white-painted wooden beam ceilings as high as 30 feet in one section and wood floors. There are three separate sitting areas in the main room, each with modest, contemporary brown leather or suede furniture that serves as a backdrop to paintings by artists like Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall and Edouard Vuillard as well as African masks and tactile sculptures. In the kitchen, a 1905 Picasso painting and a 2009 Rob Nadeau sculpture share a wall above a floor scattered with cat toys. Down the hall, past a dusty wine rack with French reds, are an office and another guest room.” He bought it in 1973 for $40K. (There’s also a slideshow.) P.S. Complaining that art is overcommercialized to the WSJ, of all media, is a bit rich.

••• “P.S. 234, already chronically overcrowded, is in danger of losing access to a pair of classrooms in the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center that it has used for two years. The lease on this space, which has been used to ease the crisis of packed classrooms that has plagued the school for nearly a decade, expires in June. Manhattan Youth executive director Bob Townley noted that, ‘We hope that P.S. 234 will be using those classrooms next September, and we want them to continue, but as things stand right now, they will not be coming back.’ Negotiations are ongoing between Manhattan Youth and the Department of Education (DOE), but the two sides are far apart.” (Broadsheet Daily)

••• At the end of June, the Writers’ Guild of America East (I didn’t know there was an America East! Sounds elite!) is moving from W. 57th to 250 Hudson. (Variety)

••• “This year’s 31 Master of Fine Arts candidates of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University […] will make their professional debuts in a six-week repertory season that is open to the public beginning Wednesday, Mar. 24 [….] The 2010 Actors Studio Drama School Repertory Season performances will take place at the theater at Dance New Amsterdam, 53 Chambers St., Wednesdays through Fridays at 8 p.m. and Saturdays at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. from March 24 through May 1. The full schedule and information about plays, actors, directors and playwrights can be found online at pace.edu/asdsrep. Admission is free, but reservations must be made in advance by phone or e-mail as seating is limited. The 24-hour reservation line is 212-714-4643 and email is asdsreptickets@gmail.com.” (BroadwayWorld)