FRANKLIN STREET’S “ED HARDY HOUSE” IS BACK
“We should celebrate this project,” said a Landmarks Preservation Commission member in 2011. “Everything is familiar and yet nothing is familiar.… This is smart architecture as well as delirious architecture.” The full story.

BRUNCH AT UNION BAR + KITCHEN
Come to Union Bar + Kitchen for weekend brunch (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and enjoy an entrée and two hours of bottomless Bloody Marys, Mimosas, and Bellinis for only $35. The menu—New American with global influences—offers something for everyone. Highlights include the sirloin burger, eggs Benedict with smoked salmon, the breakfast burrito, and the Morning After Sandwich, a panko-crusted pork cutlet with provolone, egg, hot mustard–infused tonkatsu sauce and pickled ginger. See you this weekend! 300 Spring St. (near Hudson), 646-791-0005; ubknyc.com. Sponsored.

ARE THESE BUILDINGS NEXT?
All of this is conjecture; no permits have been filed with the Department of Buildings… yet.

WEATHERING THE STORM
This week’s storm proved to be a bit of a fizzle, but surviving the precautions was tougher—mammoth lines at Whole Foods, the subway shutdown, the banning of cars from our streets, and so on. A big thanks to the restaurants that were able to open on Monday and/or Tuesday.

ANOTHER KIDS’ BOUTIQUE IS OPENING HERE
A Tribeca outpost of Jacadi, based in France, will join the brand’s four other stores in New York City.

IN THE NEWS
••• 1/26: Restaurant burglar apprehended. Plus: Park lawn to get fake grass; pushing to extradite Fraunces Tavern bomber; Sheldon Silver temporarily gives up the reins.
••• 1/27: A big new rooftop park in FiDi? Plus: The New York Times re-reviews North End Grill and Blue Smoke; subway suicide; thief wielding a box cutter.
••• 1/28: Canada Goose infestation. Plus: Quirky pavilions set for Governors Island; Q&A with Santiago Calatrava; Sheldon Silver stepped down as speaker; Trump Soho may convert more condos to hotel rooms.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 1/26: Affordable housing guide. Plus: Community Board 1 meeting postponed; BMCC pool update; “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”; Front Art Space show.
••• 1/27: Little Park’s private room. Plus: The adventures of Collie, the Tribeca bro; the James hotel’s new mural; Cheryl Hazan’s next show; Robert Janz; Tribeca Citizen’s new logo.
••• 1/28: A pizzeria with standards. Plus: Whole Foods devastation (above); vacant lot to finally get built on; Leonard Street conversion update; is Tetsu stalled?; Sixty Soho Hotel.

LOFT PEEPING: ANDI & MIKE COSTA
Curbed featured the Fulton Street loft of Andi and Mike Costa, who have two daughters, two dogs, a springbok hide, and a gemsbok skull. Take a look around.