NEW JERSEY VS. CONGESTION PRICING
The Times has a summary of the two-day hearing that took place last week for the lawsuit that New Jersey brought against the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. The state claims that the feds allowed its neighbor New York “to move ahead with congestion pricing without fully addressing how traffic and pollution would be shifted to its neighbors across the Hudson River as drivers avoid the new tolls.” The judge said he will make a decision before the tolling starts in June.

CHRISTOPHER WOOL AT 101 GREENWICH
I will get in there, but in the meantime, here’s the Curbed story on the Christopher Wool show on the 19th Floor of 101 Greenwich, his first major exhibition since a 2014 retrospective at the Guggenheim. “The floor was gutted before the pandemic and left raw, wires exposed, concrete shorn to reveal stripes of original mosaic tile — a distressed vibe that matches the work of a punk painter who came up under the abstract expressionists.” Info on the show here. Through July 31.

MARY MISS WORK THREATENED IN IOWA
There is just a tangential connection to Downtown here, but any of you fans of the jetty at South Cove might want to read: The Times reports that Miss’ piece at the Des Moines Art Center, “Greenwood Pond-Double Site,” will be dismantled because the museum does not have the money to repair it. The museum estimates it will take $2.7 million to repair the project.

PARKING GARAGES DEEMED UNSAFE
After the collapse of the parking garage on Ann Street that killed a worker there, the Department of Buildings stepped up inspections and has labelled seven parking garages in Lower Manhattan as “unsafe,” according to The Broadsheet: 225 Rector Place, 333 Rector Place, 75 Wall Street, 71 Reade Street, 23 Beekman Street, 13 South Street, and 10 South William Street. “A designation of ‘unsafe’ carries with it the requirement that the operator repair the conditions leading to the citation within 90 days, or else face closure.”