••• Sitting in my apartment yesterday, I got so frustrated with the insanely loud, totally piercing beeps of this cherry picker—it beeps whenever the basket moves—working at City Hall that I went over and asked how long I could expect it to go on for. (Two weeks!) Then I called 311. (“Where’s City Hall?”) So I tweeted councilmember Margaret Chin, whose office is now looking into it.

••• And then I got so disgusted with this UPS truck that I tweeted (and then emailed) the company.

••• Possible next grumpiness target: If AT&T can’t bother to unlock this plaza more often, it should give it to the community. A great spot for a playground in an area that could use one….

••• And I’m going to assume that China Blue is not doing anything untoward to that loading dock.

••• Community Board 1 sent out an email about the city’s street-tree planting program, with a link to the spring 2015 planting locations. There’s not one in Tribeca, and only a handful in FiDi. Chinatown and the Lower East Side are getting the bulk of the new trees downtown. Bad news for Hudson, W. Broadway, and all the other streets whose trees have been chopped or otherwise left to die.

••• 506 Canal has come out from under the plywood! Those three buildings look fantastic, aside from the billboards, of course.

••• Demolition continues at the 268 West block. The first pic is from West Street, looking toward Washington; the second pic is of 39 Desbrosses, where Ponte’s restaurant was.