SUING OVER THE UPZONING OF GOVERNORS
A group of city residents are suing the Trust for Governors Island (and then some) over the rezoning of the south/east corner, which is scheduled to be a 30-acre educational campus. The city upzoned that part of the island last year, and the responses to an RFP are coming in now. From Gothamist: “They’re planning to turn the entire island into a research campus,” said Roger Manning, a musician and web designer who sued over the island’s rezoning last fall. “The park turns into a quad. It should stay public as much as possible and low-rise absolutely.”

GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF PLACARD ABUSE
Crain’s does a deep dive on placard abuse and reviews two efforts to help solve the problem. From Crain’s: “Under former Mayor Bill de Blasio, the number of city-issued parking placards ballooned, largely due to union contracts and the growth of the city’s workforce. The number of city-issued placards was about 67,000 in 2008, according to city data. By the time de Blasio took office in 2014, the number had risen to 103,000, getting to about 125,000 by 2018.”

 

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FORGIONE AT ONE FIFTH
Marc Forgione is reopening One Fifth, and it’s the Headliner in Florence Fabricant’s column in The Times: “Though the restaurant’s approach is Italian, like its predecessor, Mr. Forgione’s menu, executed with the chef Robert Zwirz, reinvents the standard repertoire.”

TOTEME COMES TO SOHO
Toteme, the Swedish fashion line, has opened its first U.S. store at 49 Mercer Street in Soho. –WWD