••• “A longtime Community Board 1 member—and former partner in prestigious law firm Hughes Hubbard and Reed—has pleaded guilty to criminal tax fraud […] Jeff Galloway, 61, admitted in Manhattan Criminal Court Thursday that he failed to file and pay his personal income taxes from 2005 to 2010 […] When Galloway was confronted by New York Department of Taxation and Finance in 2012, he lied to investigators, saying he had filed his tax returns, but that he had made a typographical error with his Social Security number in the paperwork, prosecutors said. He then proceeded to file fraudulent, amended taxes in a bid to cheat the system, prosecutors said.” —DNAinfo

••• “Months of complaints about overgrown vegetation on the West Street Promenade have resulted in action. At Tuesday night’s meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1, the Battery Park City Authority announced that it had reached an agreement with other stakeholders—primarily the City and State governments—that will allow it to take on greater responsibility for maintaining the area.” —Broadsheet

••• “I call on Legends, the operator of the [1WTC] observatory, to issue a free pass to anyone who can prove—through a lease, electric bill, etc.—that he or she was a resident of Battery Park City, Tribeca or the Financial District at the time of the attacks,” writes a writer who was 7 years old and living in Battery Park City during 9/11. —New York Post

••• “I lost $100M—and I’ve never been happier.” —Battery Park City resident Suzanne Corso, whose lifestyle took a hit when she and her husband lost everything in the financial crisis. —New York Post

••• Sometime Tribecan Iris Smith is a member of a women-only syndicate that invests in racehorses. —New York Times