••• Albert “Allaham and his family, who run popular Brooklyn butcher shop The Prime Cut, are set to open a 300-seat kosher steakhouse [called Reserve Cut] inside luxury Financial District building The Setai on Oct. 15.” How much steak can one neighborhood eat? —DNAinfo

••• “Jung Sik has been upgraded from a one-star rating to a two-star rating” by the Michelin guide. —Eater

••• The Wall Street Journal profiles the efforts of Tribecans Trevor B. Price and Megan Sheetz to get the Pier 25 playground rebuilt after Sandy.

••• “WeWork, a fast-growing office-suite company that is rapidly expanding in Manhattan, is in talks to take its biggest space yet and to branch into the residential rental business. The company, which operates at least eight locations in the city, is negotiating to lease all of 110 Wall St., a 27-story, 300,000-square-foot downtown office tower where it would open office space on the lower floors and rent residential units above.” —Crain’s

••• “Is this the oldest photograph of New York? It just might be, according to New York: An Illustrated History, by Ric Burns and James Sanders. Taken at Broadway between Franklin and Leonard Streets, it’s believed to date to May 1850.” Ephemeral New York has more info on it.