••• The New York Times reports on the 9/11 Memorial congestion nightmare that’s brewing: “Residents in the area around ground zero are wrestling with an increasingly contentious question: how to transport all those people in and out, without clogging up cobblestone residential streets with chartered fume-spewing double-deckers? With less than seven months until the memorial opens on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, the city’s Department of Transportation has not yet completed a plan to handle all the expected bus traffic. Under one proposal, the city would choose several streets where buses would be allowed to park between pick-ups and drop-offs. The sites would be selected from an area that includes a wide swath of residential strongholds, including Battery Park City, Warren and Murray Streets in Tribeca, and condo-heavy Greenwich Street. The area under consideration would stretch south to the Battery and east into City Hall Park.” That’s the NYT’s map above. Here’s an idea: Maybe the memorial shouldn’t open until the bus parking lot is finished.

••• “A Brooklyn comedian needed a dozen stitches and additional treatment after he was allegedly hit with a beer bottle following his performance at a Tribeca bar last Thursday. Police said the 23-year-old comic […] had just finished a performance at the Dark Horse [on] Murray Street when he and a female audience member began arguing.” She threw the bottle at him. (Tribeca Trib)

••• “Each year at this time, the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy asks for community feedback on last year’s programs with an eye toward fine-tuning new offerings. This year’s meeting will take place today, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm, at the Conservancy headquarters (75 Battery Place) and on Wednesday (March 2), from 6:30 to 7:30 pm in the BPCPC meeting room at the Verdesian (211 North End Avenue between Murray and Warren Streets).” (Broadsheet Daily)

••• “Tribeca-based filmmaker Charles Ferguson nabbed an Oscar in the Best Documentary feature category for his look at the economic meltdown in his film Inside Job.” I swore off the Oscars years ago, but I watched about an hour of this year’s show—what a cold mess. (DNAinfo)

••• The lawn at Washington Market Park is expected to open a month early this year (sometime in May), and the new restrooms should open mid-April: “Though the million-dollar facility was completed months ago, a snafu over the installation of the gas meter has kept it out of operation.” (Tribeca Trib)

••• The Tribeca Trib looks at the controversy around the Innovate Manhattan charter school.

••• The New Yorker likes New York by Gehry.

••• New York magazine profiles the kooky W. Broadway apartment (there are two hidden rooms, and live mice nibble at the doll in the vitrine) of artist Meghan Boody. Here are four of the images; there are four more back at the link. The photos are by Ofer Wolberger.