Morning Buzz, March 5: Creating Robotic Fish Today's weather could be a sign that Staten Island Chuck missed his mark, with temperatures peaking in the low 40s. The latest on New York's redistricting battles. The former squatter haven C-Squat, which will soon contain the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. The museum will tell the stories behind the transformations of abandoned properties in the East Village into permanent housing and community gardens. A planned campaign aimed at reforming New York's carwash industry and unionizing its workers. Mezuzas, coffee zones and timed lights on the Sabbath - the changes a medical college made, and the challenges it faced, when it changed its religious affiliation. Concerns about Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposed budget cuts to child care and after-school programs. Handball enthusiasts in Queens who use a stainless steel pot, a can of propane and a lighter to boil bright blue rubber handballs so they bounce better in the cold. A team of scientists in Brooklyn from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University has created a robotic fish that could one day lead real fish away from oil spills and chemical dumping. Brooklyn Paper The amount of money the state pays Wall Street firms to manage state pension funds has risen 163 percent since the state comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, took office in 2007, according to a study by the state Senate's Independent Democratic Conference. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg used a New York Police Department helicopter to get from one St. Patrick's Day parade on Staten Island to another in Queens, while three potential contenders in the 2013 mayoral race made the same trip in SUVs. Steeplechase Amusement Park will open at the Thor Equities lot on Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island. Amusing the Zillion The city will spend $12 million expanding its own radio system at the new World Trade Center, rather than joining the Port Authority in a unified radio system. Decades after his death, the work of Frank Oscar Larson, an amateur photographer and World War I veteran, is being shown at the Queens Museum of Art. Fifty New York police officers have been trained as decoys to catch thieves stealing iPhones and other electronic devices on subways. A Staten Island education group and St. John's University will hold a seminar on Tuesday concerning the growing rate of prescription drug abuse on Staten Island. Staten Island Real-Time News Some waterfront employees are paid more than $400,000 a year for what the Port Authority calls "low-show" jobs. The lack of snow this winter has put a dent in the paychecks of New York City Sanitation Department workers, who are receiving less overtime. The public advocate, Bill de Blasio, said that releasing the names of cancer-stricken New York Police Department employees who worked at ground zero, which the city has refused to do, "could mean the difference between life and death." Second graders in Room 201 at Brownsville's Public School 401 have had five different teachers since September.