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The former 77 Water Street office tower is becoming about 650 rentals. A quarter are in the lottery, for households earning roughly $40,500 to $152,700. Applications are due Nov. 17.

The second batch on the city's 9/11 portal brings it to about 210,000 pages. Newly public emails show the Law Department pushing back on certifying downtown buildings as contaminated, NBC New York reported.

The number of sheds is down more than 15% in 10 months, City Hall says. Two see-through designs by the firm PAU are on display outside the Buildings Department in Lower Manhattan, and rules to allow six new designs citywide are expected by year's end.

Corporation Counsel Steven Banks says Asher & Associates turned fights and car crashes into sidewalk and pothole suits against taxpayers. The firm calls the federal case an attempt to chill legitimate injury work.

The plan would replace a Brutalist city office building with two towers of about 115 and 78 stories, roughly 1,000 of the homes permanently affordable. New Yorkers can weigh in on what the environmental review should study at Pace University on Oct. 29 or in writing until Nov. 9.

The woman, whose family asked that her name be withheld, is the 1,655th World Trade Center victim formally identified. About 40% of the 2,753 people killed in New York are still unidentified.