–After winning height reductions and securing various new community amenities, members of the City Council are expected to approve the mayor’s borough-based jail plan today. [Daily News]

–The Chinatown jail will now be 29 floors. The city has agreed to grant City Council member Margaret Chin’s request for a new theater as part of Museum of Chinese in America. [Daily News]

–The notorious landlord, Steve Croman, has apparently not changed his ways, even after serving time in prison. [The Real Deal]

–One of the candidates taking on U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Suraj Patel, has raised a lot of money — more than $100,000 in the first 12 days of his campaign. Maloney has a huge campaign war chest, in part thanks to her reliance on corporate PACs. [Daily News]

–A tribute to the classic New York City spot Fanelli’s, “the bar that has fed Soho for almost a century.” [New York Times]

–“Three Times,” a Chinese fast casual concept has opened several locations, including one on Clinton Street. [Eater]

–A plan to merge two East Village schools — one diverse, one not — falls apart. [Chalkbeat]

–“An aggressive urban re-engineering experiment — new traffic rules largely banning drivers from a mile-long stretch of 14th street — is proving transformative.” [New York Times]

–A report commissioned by elected officials on the East Side Coastal Resiliency Plan has been released. [Manhattan BP]

–As New York’s commercial vacancy problem grows worse, the City Council sits on legislation that some advocates believe would give retail tenants a fighting chance of staying in business. [City Limits]

–You probably heard about the pizza slices and the heartfelt not left at the makeshift memorial for the Chinatown murder victims. Now read the story of the Lower East Side pizza man responsible for the gesture. [New York Times]