1) Meatpacking: Construction on the bizarro pedestrian plaza that's usurping car lanes at Ninth Avenue and 14th Street is moving right along, as evidenced by this photo (above) sent along by a tipster over the weekend. How soon until they open up a Pinkberry somewhere on that median? [CurbedWire Inbox]
2) Morningside Heights: Speaking of bizarre, an uptown reader emails, "took a bike ride sunday afternoon by the hudson river. there were park workers destroying all those driftwood sculptures
that someone have been building along the river bank above 100th street (right). they said that there had been complaints and they had been given orders to clean up and destroy them all." Uh, your tax dollars at work, or somesuch. [CurbedWire Inbox]