••• The New York Times recaps the community outrage over the city’s sneaky proposal to move a criminal summons court to Thomas Street and a probation office to John Street. Noteworthy tidbits: “A lawsuit is set to be filed this week by Odeon’s owner and local residents in New York State Supreme Court, according to their lawyer Richard D. Emery; their claim is that the city failed to do an impact study and plans to use the new space improperly.” And: “The portion of the Probation Department moving to 66 John Street, a 44-story commercial building visited daily by hundreds, is expected to handle just 40 of the ‘lowest risk’ probationers a day,” according to Caswell F. Holloway IV, the city’s deputy mayor for operations. (Was he the same deputy mayor who said the “real criminals” would be going to John, not Thomas?) And: “The [community] board had been informed in a draft plan presented last year that the summons court and Probation Department would move to buildings on Centre Street. Though the city later concluded that the sites were not suitable, community members said they heard nothing about it until a few weeks ago.” And this: “In spite of the outcry, the city shows no intention of budging. A lease has been signed for 66 John Street, and negotiations are underway with the landlord at 71 Thomas Street. ‘The city needs to deliver services,’ Mr. Holloway said. ‘Our plan is to move ahead.'” Aren’t we the city, too, Mr. Holloway?

••• “The footbridge over West Street at Rector Street,”–they mean Vesey—”which was built after September 11 as a temporary means of transport between Battery Park City and the rest of the Financial District to the east, is currently being dismantled.” —Curbed

••• Forgot to include this article from the other day: “For much of the last two centuries, New York’s City Hall has been a construction site. And now, for one thing, the nation’s oldest continuous seat of municipal government needs a new roof. Repairs that began five years ago were supposed to have been completed in time for the building’s 2012 bicentennial. An early budget estimated the cost at $65 million. That the renovations have taken longer than expected—longer than Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s final term—and have cost more than twice as much as projected will probably come as no surprise to any homeowner.” —New York Times

••• “While doing excavations for the ongoing rehabilitation of City Hall, workers uncovered fragmentary human remains dating back to the 18th century. […] The remains, which were too small to analyze in any meaningful way, were reburied and today members of the board of directors of A Partnership of Faith presided over the unveiling of a marker at the northeast end of City Hall Park to commemorate them.” —Curbed

••• “142 Duane Street loft sells up a million after chilly purchase, lovely renovation.” —Manhattan Loft Guy

••• Budgeting for the Battery Park City Authority’s construction projects in 2014. —Broadsheet

••• “The lights on the Battery Park City ball fields (which have been powered by portable generators since Hurricane Sandy, while electrical connections were raised above flood levels) will be working again in the next few weeks.” —Broadsheet

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