••• A CB1 member is still agitated that Pier A won’t be an Italian-American museum, and demands that the BPCA find room elsewhere for one. As if there’s unbuilt space in Battery Park City! (Broadsheet Daily)

••• “The [Fulton Street] transit center is more than 50 percent done, and as for the specifics: steel is going up now, following the installation of Broadway’s 100-foot tower crane, and should be all done by the end of the year.” (Curbed)

••• “TF Cornerstone signed a 15-year lease to bring Potbelly Sandwich Shop, a Chicago culinary institution, to 2 Gold Street in the Financial District, the chain restaurant’s first New York location. Potbelly’s snapped up the last available retail space in the building, joining Pret-A-Manger, Goodburger, and Hot Clay Oven.” (The Real Deal, via Grub Street)

••• “Ed McFarland isn’t quite ready to open Caravelli’s, but when his kiosk in the World Financial Center debuts for the season on April 7, he’ll be offering something new: a lobster burger. The $15 sandwich is already served at Ed’s Lobster Bar on Lafayette Street, and McFarland describes it as “cooked lobster meat that is ground, it is mixed with a little clarified butter, salt, pepper, and chive. It is grilled and served on a sesame bun with spicy mayo, lettuce, tomato, and red onion.” The grilled yellowfin tuna sandwich and chilled seafood salad are other kiosk additions. Full menu here.” (Grub Street) The $25 deal for a lobster roll and a soda seems a bit rich given the lobster glut, no?

••• “This spring, the Battery Conservancy is launching its first-ever Urban Farm at the Battery, an enormous community garden that will stretch across 1 acre of the Great Lawn. […] In a playful nod to Zelda the turkey, the park’s most famous resident, the farm will be shaped like a bird. Designer Scott Dougan crafted a bamboo fence to enclose the farm, which will trace out the contours of the beloved turkey, from beak to tail feathers.” (DNAinfo)

••• “The large wooden desk used by e.e. cummings has been installed at Poets House.” (DNAinfo)