••• The New York Times says that the Marble House (inside 60 Collister) sold for just under $9.5 million (way down from the original $20 million asking price): “The buyer of this 80-foot-wide home, the designer and occasional producer Stuart Parr (8 Mile and Get Rich or Die Tryin’), personally selected the slabs of Italian marble displayed in the home: Striato Olimpico and Crema Valencia figure prominently. Mr. Parr also owns the Stuart Parr Gallery on Vestry Street and, according to his biography, is working on a film that pays homage to Frank Lloyd Wright.” But wait, wasn’t it Parr who created the Marble House?

••• About the plazas coming to Water Street: “The DOT plans to shut down traffic on Coenties Slip, between Water and Pearl streets, and Gouverneur Lane, between Water and Front streets, to turn the blocks into public seating areas, with granite slabs and potted plants, much like the pedestrian plaza that opened at the southern end of Water Street in 2011. And that original Water Street plaza, which sits across from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal at Whitehall Street, will be extended up to Broad Street.” —DNAinfo

••• An interesting addition to the agenda for Community Board 1’s Landmarks Committee meeting on Thursday: “32 Avenue of the Americas, application for alteration to entrance and ‘Retail Master Plan.'” (32 Sixth Ave. is the block-wide building at Lispenard, Church, and Walker.)

••• Also of note in the revised CB1 agendas: “225 Front St., application for a liquor license for TDB [sic]”—that’s the Barbarini space.