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• Jay McInerney's long-going goodbye to the Upper East Side continues with his final trips to Elio's ("Who dares to serve lasagna in this neighborhood? Gottta love it"), Bar and Books (for "uptown swells"), and Pinkberry ("a great place to watch girls.") [House & Garden]
• Despite community efforts (which have included the old handcuffed-to-tree trick), the 19-year-old Nueva Esperanza (New Hope) Garden will be turned into an $80 million luxury condominium, plus the Museum for African Art. Scarily, of the city's 40 to 50 gardens "in danger of being developed," half are in East Harlem. [City Limits]
• The Freedom Tower's costs rise, and the grumbles grow louder. But what do a few extra billion dollars here or there matter? [Architectural Record News]
• For a family-centric ad, Corcoran fills the Guccione mansion with more babes [above] than it ever had in its Penthouse magazine days. [Curbed] - Max Abelson
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John Faso campaigns throughout the five boroughs. Beginning at the Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street subway station, Faso will visit religious leaders at Brooklyn's New Hope Ministries; the Middletown Plaza Senior Center in the Bronx; and campaign at the ShopRite Shopping Center in Staten Island and the Queensborough Plaza subway station in Queens.

Eliot Spitzer will hold media availability following his remarks to the Chief Executives Organization Convention at the Palace Hotel.

Tom Suozzi addresses his department heads and senior staff and before holding media availability in Mineola.

Councilman Joseph Addabbo announces the inclusion of school safety agents into civil service status on the steps of City Hall.

The Fortune Society hosts a panel discussion on the 35th anniversary of the Attica Prison uprising.

The Brooklyn GOP hosts ladies night.

Bob Kerrey hosts a discussion with Newt Gingrich at the New School's Tishman Auditorium.

Nick Spano announces $20 million in funding for biotech projects at Aureon Laboratories in Yonkers.

—Nicole Brydson