••• The Broadsheet has an update on the RFP process for the Battery Park City ball fields.

••• A rep for Ponte Equities says the recent gate collapse at 502 Canal will get the company to act faster on rehabilitating the crumbling structure. They couldn’t possibly move slower, could they? —Tribeca Trib

••• “Residents will soon be able to move into the warehouse-to-condo conversion 250 West Street. Construction is wrapping up, and the lower three stories are expected to receive a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy this month. The full TCO will come in February, when tenants will being moving in.” —Curbed

••• “Return Date Moved Up for Residents of FiDi’s 2 Gold Street.” —Curbed

••• “Nearly half of Germany’s gold reserves are held in a vault at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York—billions of dollars worth of postwar geopolitical history squirreled away for safe keeping below the streets of Lower Manhattan. Now the German central bank wants to make a big withdrawal—300 tons in all.” —New York Times

••• The midtown Zucker’s opened at 370 Lexington. —Eater