Brian May and co-author Elena Vidal (by Michael Falco, courtesy the New York Times)

••• Queen guitarist Brian May was at Barnes & Noble Tribeca to promote his book, A Village Lost and Found, about stereoscopic portraitist T. R. Williams. (New York Times)

••• In one of those odd New York Times articles that doesn’t seem to have a point, a Fort Greene resident named Alan Taylor had this to say: “We were living in Manhattan, in a loft in Soho, before it became the mall it now seems to be. I started shooting a TV show, ‘Bored to Death’—it ended up taking place in Fort Greene. In the process, I was falling in love with the neighborhood. I felt like I had discovered a secret. I didn’t want [my kids] to grow up in Soho or Tribeca in a ghetto of people who, probably, I’m perceived as being. We are a family of white people in strollers; we don’t want to be surrounded by families of white people with strollers.”

••• The Village Voice likes Grandaisy Bakery‘s panino greco.