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TWO KILLED ON CANAL STREET
ICYMI, The Times and all the news outlets carried the story that a cyclist and a pedestrian were killed Saturday morning when a driver jumped the curb and hit them on the sidewalk. “May Kwok, 63, was sitting on a metal bench when she was struck by the car, according to the police. She and the cyclist, Kevin Cruickshank, 55, were pronounced dead at the scene, the authorities said. The driver of the vehicle, Kennedy Lecraft, 22, and its lone passenger, also a 22-year-old woman, left the scene, but they were found a block away and taken into custody, the police said.”

NEW FIELDHOUSE FOR THE BATTERY
This reminds me that I have to catch up on all the changes happening at and to The Battery, but for now, Gothamist has a story about the park getting a $6.1 million “field house,” which is really a bathroom for the public and offices for park workers. The old building will be replaced by spring 2028.

EIGHT-FOOT GATE COMING TO PEDESTRIAN PLAZA
Same: I will get on this myself, but in the meantime, Streetsblog reports that the feds plan to fence off the passageway between Moynihan Southern District Court and the back of the state’s New York Supreme Court building, basically from Worth to Pearl east of Centre. From Streetsblog: “The Genmeral Services Administration, which oversees federal buildings, plans to install an eight-foot-tall metal fence on both sides of the small pedestrian courtyard… The soaring gate, between Worth and Pearl streets, would make permanent the current raft of metal barricades and keep public use restricted to daylight hours — all at the behest of the NYPD.”

A TITANIC TOWER AT THE SEAPORT
The Trib followed this story in June: CB1’s Waterfront Committee heard from a non-profit called Titanic New York about plans to build an “experience” in the shape of a 12-story tower at the end of Fulton Street. The project — which is unplanned and unfunded — “would tell the story of the [Titanic] as visitors ascend the structure, leaning heavily on virtual reality and other ‘immersion’ technology rather than museum-style artifacts,” The Trib wrote.