••• The New York Times recaps last night’s Landmarks Preservation Commission meeting about the Cordoba House project. “Religion has nothing to do with this,” pandered gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio, in what struck me as a classic rhetorical tactic used to defend bigotry.

••• Grown & Sewn gets reviewed by the New York Times‘s Critical Shopper: “The innovation here comes in the hybridizing of khaki with denim, or at least, with ideas about denim. As is the wont these days, the pants are completely domestically sourced; ‘American Dry Goods Collection’ is the store’s motto. Even the lightest cloth here isn’t frail, and the heavier ones have real depth. Some are built with jeanlike detail: copper rivets, scoop pockets on the front as opposed to the angled ones on the store’s other pants.”

••• The replacement of a water pipe on Monday left a lot of BPC residents with brown water. (Broadsheet Daily)

•••”Brandon Miller, a resident of 90 Franklin Street, plans to build a seven-story, three-family home on the vacant lot two blocks from his current apartment, at 137 Franklin St. The narrow property, at the corner of Varick Street and across the street from Finn Square, had been the site of a restaurant that, in the mid-1990s, was torn down for a residential project that never materialized.” The design is nice and safe—the kind of thing that Landmarks likes. (Tribeca Trib)

••• “Hundreds of dancers took to the steps of City Hall Tuesday and jumped, sashayed and pirouetted in the rain for the right to stay in their downtown studio space [Dance New Amsterdam].” I’m going to try that with Chase—maybe they’ll let me skip a few mortgage payments. (DNAinfo)