••• Cercle Rouge owner George Forgeois says the restaurant won’t be hosting a Bastille Day celebration this summer because the city raised the price of the street activity permit from $10,000 to $38,500. (Tribeca Trib)

••• “The recent proposal by Community Board 1 chair Julie Menin to fund a performing arts center at the World Trade Center site with more than $150 million in as-yet-unspent Lower Manhattan Development Corp. money was coupled with a related proposal by Ms. Menin: to invite New York University  to build a ‘vertical campus’ at 130 Liberty St.—the former Deutsche Bank building—where she hopes a performing arts center could and would be built on the lower floors of a new tower on that site.” (Broadsheet Daily)

••• Tribeca residents Jessica and David Saitowitz were cited in a New York Times real-eatste article about the appeal of buildings that are 3–5 years old, as was 505 Greenwich.