Bronx colleges get a facelift, High Line office tower plans revised… and more

1. Bronx colleges get new, refurbished campus buildings [NYDN]
2. High Line office tower plans revised [NYP]
3. Methane found near Trump golf course not dangerous, officials say [NYDN]
4. Public Advocate: Housing agency should review contracts list for crooks [Gotham Gazette]
5. Allied Partners’ Soho tech hub mortgages to pay for rooftop garden, renovations [NYO]
6. East 9th Street building additional floors OK’d by NYC Board of Standards and Appeals [EV Grieve]
7. Sheryl Crow lists $16M Hollywood house [TMZ]
8. Detroit’s decline, in pictures [Daily Mail]
9. By-the-hour ‘love hotel’ sales protested [NYT]
10. Commuters push for Metro-North stop in Queens [NYDN]
11. Office vacancies in Washington, D.C. at highest level since 1991 [Bloomberg]
12. Astoria restaurant wants more bicycle parking [NYDN]
13. Alligator found in Gravesend home [NYP]