SOME RELEASED AFTER CANAL STREET RAIDS
Gothamist reports that at least three of the nine West African immigrants arrested by ICE agents in raids on Canal Street in October have been released by federal judges who argued that the arrests were unlawful. Gothamist was able to track four of the remaining vendors to ICE facilities in New Jersey and Louisiana, but was not able to find the other three. “The court-ordered releases for these three individuals confirms what we all know, which is that federal law enforcement officers carried out illegal and unconstitutional roundups on the streets of Chinatown,” Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, told Gothamist.

ICHIMURA NOW AT ELEVEN MADISON PARK
Turns out sushi master Eiji Ichimura was not on his last chapter at his eponymous restaurant here: he now has a open-ended residency at the Studio, a nine-seat dining counter above Eleven Madison Park, and Grubstreet has a story here. From New York mag on the chef’s tendency to keep a low profile: “During his years at David Bouley’s Brushstroke in the 2010s, in Tribeca, he quietly turned out excellent sushi under such a cloak of quiet that Pete Wells once marveled that the ’emptiness of the room wasn’t just odd, it was plain wrong.'”

INSIDE JFK JR’S N. MOORE LOFT
There’s been a ton of coverage of JFK Jr.’s loft at 20 N. Moore now that the “Love Story” biopic was released. This time People does a deep-ish dive and I learned a couple things: He bought it in 1994 from David Letterman; it had two bedrooms, wood floors and roof deck access; Tribecan Ed Burns bought it in 2000 and used it for scenes for his 2011 comedy-drama “Newlyweds.”

UPGRADES FOR FIDI INTERSECTIONS
The Broadsheet has a story on five intersections that the city hopes to upgrade with expanded sidewalks: the corners of Rector Street and Broadway, Wall Street and Broadway, Hanover Square and Pearl Street, Bridge Street and Whitehall Street, and Beaver Street and Broadway. They are all in the Wall Street Historic District.