••• The New Yorker visits Puffy’s Tavern in a non-review review that leads, bizarrely, with “Down the street from the Tribeca Language school—where three-years-olds can learn Arabic or Hindi for around seven hundred dollars a semester….”

••• “A recently fired worker allegedly beat and robbed an ex-colleague in Tribeca, ­police sources said. Fao Rosas, 30, and two pals allegedly jumped the 24-year-old victim near Reade and Hudson streets at 3:50 a.m. Wednesday, sources said. […] Police sources said the suspect harbored a grudge against the victim for allegedly getting him fired. Their place of employment was not immediately known.” —New York Post

••• “A pedal-pushing robber grabbed a cellphone and a wallet from the owner on the Fourth of July in Hudson Square downtown, police sources said. The 61-year-old female victim was outside the NYC Fire Museum on Spring Street near Hudson Street at 2 p.m. when the bicycling bandit swooped by and snatched her belongings.” —New York Post

••• “In the 1970s, odd objects of unknown and mysterious origins would often land on the semi-deserted streets of Tribeca. Barbara Siegel, an artist, began collecting this detritus flattened out by cars and trucks—an old dustpan, a pair of wire-rimmed glasses, a can of paint—soon after moving to her loft on Washington Street with her husband, Gary Schwartz, in 1979.” Pictured: “Freixenet” (2015).—Tribeca Trib

••• Community Board 1’s Landmarks Committee has several serious issues with the Howard Hughes Corp.’s plans for the South Street Seaport, including making the roof of Pier 17 an event space that can handle 4,000 people and generally being sneaky. —Downtown Post NYC

••• “The large former Duane Reade space at 99 John (corner of Cliff) has been leased to Smarter Toddler preschool, which bills itself as a ‘warm community oriented learning environment with curriculum geared toward music, movement, music and visual arts.’ They will cater to children from 3 months to 5 years. Smarter Toddler has locations on the Upper West Side and Midtown West.” FiDi Fan Page

••• Cecilia Arana, whose kids go to P.S./I.S. 276, and Mindy Pfeffer are puppeteers who teach kids that disabled kids aren’t so different. —Tribeca Trib

••• Profiling mini-Preneur, which develops kids’ entrepreneurial skills. —Broadsheet