••• The plywood around the Spring Street Salt Shed has come down, and the building looks marvelous. There was initially talk of a “glazed moat illuminated at night,” but I didn’t see any evidence of such a thing (unless the grating around the building has lights underneath).

••• ROC‘s annual Halloween party has a theme: movies. Start planning your costume….

••• It’s nice to see that Frank Stella wrote a letter on behalf of the Tribeca Trust’s efforts to expand the historic districts before it’s too late.

••• Behold 290 West, the new building at the southeast corner of Canal.

••• Something seemed different about PJ Charlton, the Italian restaurant at 549 Greenwich (at Charlton), but I couldn’t put my finger on it. There signs are new, of course, but maybe it also got spiffed up?

••• WTC Progress tweeted a photo of pavers being installed at Liberty Park in the World Trade Center complex.