TAYLOR SWIFT STALKER IS MENTALLY UNFIT?
Gothamist (and everyone else) reported that Taylor Swift’s latest Franklin Street stalker is mentally unfit to stand trial — or so says his attorney. David Crowe, 33, visited her apartment 30 times last month and was arrested three times before he was jailed. The story goes on to say that stalking is a very hard crime to police and prosecute, since it looks a lot like what people do anyway — stand on the sidewalk using their phones. Which means the guy may be back. From Gothamist: “While the case involves one of the most famous women in the world, it is otherwise not that unusual. About 1 in 3 women and 1 in 6 men have been stalked at some point in their lives, according to the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey.”

WALL OF PLANTS GETTING OVERHAUL
The Broadsheet reports that the 25-foot-high wall of plants on the south side of the 9/11 Memorial — the retaining wall of Liberty Park — is getting an upgrade by the Port Authority at a cost of $850,000. “When it debuted in 2016, the wall contained more than 22,000 seedlings, consisting of evergreen ground cover and flowering perennials. While these appeared to be a single, continuous landscape (albeit, one tilted by 90 degrees), they were actually rooted in 826 boxed panels mounted on metal racks invisible to observers and divided into an 18-zone drip irrigation system.”

CONSERVATIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS FIGHT CONGESTION PRICING
Crain’s reports that nine conservative City Council members — all part of the Common-Sense Caucus — are attempting to block the spring launch of congestion pricing, joining a class action lawsuit to be filed last month by a group of Lower East Side residents and small business owners. From Crain’s: “The lawsuit argues that New Yorkers ‘will suffer negative environmental and socioeconomic consequences’ … due to ‘issues left unexamined or unresolved by virtue of Defendants’ unlawfully abbreviated and truncated environmental review process,’ according to a draft of the lawsuit review by Crain’s.”

VENDORS FROM BROOKLYN BRIDGE GO TO DUMBO
If you are wondering where the vendors from the Brooklyn Bridge went, it’s to Washington Street in Dumbo, where the Parks Department has now evicted them. The Brooklyn Eagle reports that the mass migration made the sidewalks there so crowded that residents had to walk into the street to get by.