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Now that the confusion regarding the location of the Nobu Hotel has been cleared up, Braden Keil has the reveal on what the Financial District's Robert De Niro-backed luxury hotel/condo will look like—and surprise, it's another huge all-glass tower for our little island. According to developer Kent Swig there will be 77 "super-luxury" condos on floors 41 through 62, and 128 hotel rooms and 13,000-square-feet of retail space below. The Nobu restaurant will be on the third floor of the six-story transparent base. Moed de Armas & Shannon designed the curvy exterior of 45 Broad Street, and the ubiquitous Rockwell Group will be handling the guts. So! The Nobu Hotel, the W Hotel & Residences, the Four Seasons—can the FiDi really handle all of these hotel hybrids?
· Just Say Nobu [NYP]
· CurbedWire Special: De Niro's FiDi Hotel NOT at 50 Broad [Curbed]
· De Niro Jumps on FiDi Bandwagon: Nobu Hotel Coming! [Curbed]

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Name changes are usually relegated to the CurbedWire, but when you're talking about the soon-to-be-tallest residential building in New York City (eat it, Trump!), things have to be done on a grander scale. Thus, it is our duty to point you to the website of Silverstein Properties, where 99 Church Street—the 80-story limestone behemoth drawn up by Robert A.M. Stern for WTC developer Larry Silverstein—is now going by 30 Park Place, thankyouverymuch. The 99 Church address has always been associated with the former building on the site, the 11-story demolished Moody's headquarters, and its been known that the residential lobby for the hotel/condo would be at 30 Park Place, so perhaps the switch was inevitable. Still, we're sorry to have to retire our "Church of Stern" nickname for the building after all this time. The Four Seasons lobby will be on Barclay Street, so there's no salvation there, either. Why is this making us sad for some reason? We'll stop now.
· Silverstein Properties [silversteinproperties.com]
· Ask Curbed: Church of Stern Ruining My Sleep [Curbed]
· Stern's 99 Church Revealed: Four Seasons! Limestone! [Curbed]

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MIDTOWN—The art installation in the lobby of the new New York Times building is composed of about 300 LED's (2 walls of about 150 each facing each other) ) which seem to displaying rotating information gleaned over the years and published in the Times. When our contributing photographer visited he was confronted by what seems like THE WALL OF DEATH – 300 leds displaying obits. (The obits were up for about a minute, then they all turned into outlines of countries.) Since I arrived in the middle of the obit display, I thought that's all it was, which kind of seemed strange for a lobby." [CurbedWire Inbox]

CHELSEA—A reader emails to ask if there's any truth to an interesting rumor about a new hotel for the neighborhood. He writes, "Is there any truth to the rumor that a new Four Seasons hotel will be built on the site of a parking garage on West 24th Street (between 6 & 7th) close to the Chelsea Stratus, and where the current flea market is? I've heard this from a couple of people." [CurbedWire Inbox]

WILLIAMSBURG—Following up on this afternoon's post about the barbecued Honda Civic on Wythe Avenue, an email came into our inbox saying that another car was torched in the Burg last night. Per the email: "There was a second one this morning next to Diner, on Berry. These seem suspiciously like the earlier arson you reported - either same perp or a copycat??" [CurbedWire Inbox]