••• “The District 2 Community Education Council rejected the city’s controversial rezoning plan for lower Manhattan’s schools in a unanimous vote Wednesday. The CEC, a panel of appointed and elected parents who must approve school zoning changes, asked the Department of Education to go back to the drawing board and come up with a new plan that lets all Tribeca children go to school closer to home.” —DNAinfo

••• “Hundreds of protesters from Zuccotti Park clashed with the police as they tried to reach the New York Stock Exchange Thursday morning, and at least 50 were arrested. Protesters had vowed to prevent traders from reaching the stock exchange on Wall Street and some traders did appear to have a hard time reaching the building. But the stock exchange opened for trading as usual at 9:30 a.m.” —New York Times

••• “1 World Trade Base Will Be Pleated Rather Than Prismatic.” Also, as you can see in the second photo: “The glass meets at the corners but is otherwise mostly open.” —New York Observer

••• “Tens of thousands of people who reserved free, timed tickets to the 9/11 Memorial are skipping out on their scheduled visit, memorial officials said this week. More than 30 percent of the people who have scheduled a visit on the memorial’s website over the past several months have not shown up at their appointed date and time, said Jim Connors, executive vice president for operations.” —DNAinfo

••• “Jeff Zimmerman, a Brooklyn artist who works in glass, spent more than six months creating the all-encompassing installation of bronze-and-glass vines currently on display at R Gallery in Tribeca. ‘The whole back of the gallery is a forest of vines you can walk through,’ said Zesty Meyers, an owner of the gallery. ‘It’s like being in an underworld.'” —New York Times

••• “The recent firing, without warning, by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) of one-third of the agency’s staff has generated an outcry both from those dismissed as well as from several former leaders of the Authority. This reaction appears to be based, at least in part, on the perception that the firings were carried out in an indiscriminate and callous manner. One of the BPCA staffers laid off without severance is a woman who had been with the agency for more than 20 years, suffers from chronic health problems, and was six months away from retirement with full benefits in the state pension system.” —Broadsheet Daily