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••• “Plans to build a 13-story mosque and community center near Ground Zero were given a boost Wednesday night when Community Board 1 said the current building at the site wasn’t architecturally significant enough to landmark. Opponents of the Cordoba Initiative’s plan to build their $100 million center at 45-47 Park Place had been pushing to have the 152-year-old building landmarked as a way to thwart the proposed Ground Zero mosque. The Cordoba Initiative still has several hurdles to clear despite Wednesday’s advisory vote.” (DNAinfo)

••• Battery Park City is reputedly getting a Blue Smoke barbecue restaurant along with a Shake Shack. Too bad a Jazz Standard isn’t coming, too. (Grub Street)

••• The Deutsche Bank building is almost down but everyone is still squabbling. (Downtown Express)

••• “Dance New Amsterdam, the first arts organization to move to Lower Manhattan after Sept. 11, is eight days away from possible eviction. The 26-year-old dance studio is being taken to court on July 14 by its landlord, Fram Realty, which is suing the nonprofit for possession of premises for rent arrears of more than $500,000.” (Crain’s, via Broadsheet Daily)

••• The New York Times reviews The Zero Hour, the 13P production currently at Walkerspace.

••• “Samuel L. Schwerin and Sara E. Schwerin bought a three-bedroom, 2.5-bath condo at 66 Leonard St. in Tribeca from Peter L. Klausner and Morley Klausner for $3.4 million on June 1. The 2,813-square-foot Unit #6B is in the Textile Building, which was built in 1901 and converted to a condominium in 1999, and has 47 units on 14 floors. Mr. Schwerin is co-founder and managing partner at Millennium Technology, a New York City-based private equity fund.” (Blockshopper)