••• The owner of Smith & Mills and Navy are opening a restaurant in the Once Upon a Tart space on Sullivan. —Soho Strut

••• Alice + Olivia founder Stacey Bendet “is staying at an uptown hotel while designer Robert Couturier remodels her new home in a Tribeca carriage house.” —New York Post

••• “The city is shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge and surrounding streets Friday afternoon in advance of the Fourth of July fireworks display on the East River. […] Drivers should be prepared to avoid much of Lower Manhattan after 4 p.m. Friday, particularly near the South Street Seaport, police said.” —DNAinfo

••• The new shops rotating into the South Street Seaport’s shipping-container mall this month. —Racked

••• “A man was beaten with a baseball bat and and a belt in the Financial District on Sunday when two attackers ambushed him.” —DNAinfo

••• “Beautique hotel Sixty Soho (formerly 60 Thompson) will replace upscale Thai restaurant Kittichai with a new Italian venture overseen by John McDonald. He’ll take over the rooftop bar and the lobby bar, too.” Beautique?

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