••• Eater asked if there’s a waiter or bartender I “know or admire,” and one person immediately came to mind….

••• “415 Greenwich Street loft resale clobbers sponsor at Tribeca Summit, nears record.” —Manhattan Loft Guy

••• “Developer Douglas Durst wants to save Manhattan’s Pier 40 by turning part of it into a valet-parking lot. […] He is instead proposing to create one stacked valet-parking lot, freeing up other parking-lot space there that could then be leased for a high-tech campus or a combination of retail galleries, loft space and office space.” —New York Post

••• “Work on the 9/11 Museum has been stalled for months […]. Disputes between the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the foundation that will run the museum over money and other matters have apparently only deepened in the last year.” —Crain’s

••• “Gateway Plaza’s pet crackdown isn’t just a blow to the complex’s many dog and cat owners—it’s also a violation of the tenants’ rent-stabilized leases, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said.” —DNAinfo