1.   Farther downtown, Daniel Boulud did his own reimagining at DB Bistro Moderne, which quickly made its name as the home of the whopper, Boulud style.

2.   Farther downtown, in Chelsea, the cavernous chain store Bed, Bath and Beyond is promoting the Japanese Sobakawa pillow filled with calm-inducing buckwheat hulls.

3.   Farther downtown, another young woman talks about herself, too.

4.   The skyscraper area farther downtown was noticeably quiet as the police maintained extra patrols.