West Thames Park (courtesy DNAinfo)

••• West Thames Park in Battery Park City has reopened. (Broadsheet Daily, DNAinfo)

••• The New York Sports Club in Battery Park City is closing June 30, reputedly because Goldman Sachs didn’t want to renew the lease. (Broadsheet Daily)

••• “On the heels of a Brooklyn woman’s Monday rescue by an unknown man at the Union Square station, a local union official was praised on Thursday for helping save a woman at the Chambers Street [A/C/E] station in Tribeca.” (DNAinfo)

••• “Design Within Reach might have closed its Hudson Street location, but it’s still making use of the space. This weekend, get 20% to 60% off furniture, Tools for Living accessories, and other merchandise at DWR’s pop-up store, which runs 11am—6pm starting Saturday and ending Monday. Best part: They’re replenishing with fresh floor samples every day.” (Racked)

••• Ward III co-founder Michael Neff gets interviewed by the Village Voice’s food blog. When asked about how he likes the neighborhood, he said, “Tribeca is great, especially as a restaurant worker. I’ve always liked working down here. It’s a really tight community of restaurant people. We all know each other and I feel like if I needed a job I could call somebody. It still feels like one of the great neighborhoods in New York. People know each other and they make it a point to get to know guys like me. They come see me maybe two or three times a week. And they have for years. And now I’ve known people who are my regular customers for more than a decade. I’ve watched them get married. I’ve watched their kids grow up. I’ve worked in the East Village, I’ve worked in other places, but they don’t have that sense of connection Tribeca always has.” And then when the interviewer said she thought Tribeca didn’t have “that whole NIMBY attitude,” Neff said, “I don’t know if I would go that far.”

••• Locanda Verde chef Andrew Carmellini appears to be opening a restaurant in Soho—casual American fare in the old Cub Room space. (Eater)

••• The New York Times‘s Clyde Haberman talks sense about the Cordoba House brouhaha.

••• DNAinfo reports on the MTA protestors on Duane Street (in front of the MTA chair’s apartment building).

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