••• A reader named Dave asks: “I have noticed a nun or a least a women in nun’s habit walking around Tribeca asking people to contribute to St Joseph’s children’s fund or something like that. I sense a possible scam—have you heard anything about this activity?” Yep, that sounds like a scam (although anyone brave enough to wear a habit in 90-degree weather might deserve a few coins). Has anyone else seen her?

••• Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, that movie about oil with Daniel Day-Lewis) will appear with Kevin Kline at 92YTribeca on Tuesday for the screening of An Extra Man.

••• Let There Be Neon, which created the neon for Keith Haring’s Pop Shop on Lafayette in 1986 has been commissioned to re-create one of the pieces for London’s Tate Museum. The Pop Shop was the best place to take out-of-town guests….

••• I thought I was up on all the hotels being built downtown, but the LMCCC‘s weekly update mentioned two that were news to me: a seven-story Marriott at Henry and Pike in Chinatown (due to be completed in summer 2012) and an independent 21-story hotel at 24 John, created by converting two office buildings (early 2011).

••• As part of its Summer Streets program, on three Saturdays in August (7, 14, 21), the city will close Park Avenue and other streets—including Lafayette—to cars in order to forge a car-free path from Central Park to the Brooklyn Bridge.

••• Today’s Living Social deal is a 90-minute harbor cruise and a cocktail from Manhattan by Sail, out of the Seaport.

••• If this keeps up at 136 Church, the building is going to have an artwork on its door.