by Jorge Canizares (courtesy The New York Times)

••• A coyote was spotted in Tribeca (New York Times) and Battery Park City (Broadsheet Daily), and then shot with a tranquilizer gun on Watts Street and and caught on West Street (New York Post). It had been spotted yesterday coming out of the Holland Tunnel, then went down to Thomas and Church Streets. Anyway, the animal is now at Manhattan Animal Care & Control on the Upper East Side. These stories break my heart; what kind of world have we made that so few animals can live in it?

••• Tribeca Summit changes hands. (Curbed)

••• The MTA shafted Lower Manhattan, as expected: “Among the changes directly affecting Lower Manhattan, the W train will be eliminated and bus service to the Lower East Side will be restructured, which will affect the M9 and the M20. Saturday service on the M20 will start later. The M6, which runs down Broadway, will be discontinued. Overnight bus service on the M22 will also be discontinued and weekend service will start later and end earlier on this line.” (Broadsheet Daily)

••• “The parents of 201 Tribeca 4-year-olds opened letters from P.S.234 principal Lisa Ripperger this week, and many of them were not happy with the news. ‘This year, P.S. 234 had a large number of kindergarten applications which is more than the available seats we have at this time,’ the letter began. ‘So, we have placed your child on a waitlist.'” (Tribeca Trib)

••• “The sky may be falling at City Hall with more bad budget news today, but the City Hall roof is also at risk of caving in. The problem is so serious that the City Council and its staff will be vacating the building in July, for up to a year, according to sources. Last fall, City workers discovered the ceiling tresses were badly rotted above the Mayors’ bullpen and the room where he holds his morning staff meetings, nicknamed ‘The Cow’ (short for Committee of the Whole room). […] With the help of scaffolding to support the ceilings, renovations were completed last October, while Mayor Bloomberg and his staff remained in the space. Similar scaffolding has been erected on the Council side of the building in the Council committee room, which is now closed to the public. But sources say the main Council Chamber is too big to support with scaffolding during renovation and must be vacated. Councilmembers will hold public hearings at either 250 Broadway or 52 Chambers Street.” (NBC New York via Broadsheet Daily)

••• “Convicted con man Hassan Nemazee’s kids have less than a week to vamoose from their luxury TriBeCa condos so the feds can sell them to satisfy a pending forfeiture order against their crooked dad. Nemazee, who pleaded guilty last week to a $292 million bank-fraud scheme, is part-owner of the apartments at 99 and 101 Warren St. Nemazee agreed to let the US Marshals Service auction them off, according to papers filed in Manhattan federal court.” (New York Post)