Photo: Courtesy of Claudia Mandlik/Pentagram, NYC OpenData, Courtesy of Caleb Ferris, Workman Publishing The objects, designers, news, and events worth knowing about. From left: Photo: Courtesy of Hudson Square BIDPhoto: Courtesy of Hudson Square BID From top: Photo: Courtesy of Hudson Square BIDPhoto: Courtesy of Hudson Square BID For the past ten years, the Hudson Square Business Improvement District has been turning an area of the city best known for being a congested on-ramp to the Holland Tunnel into a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood. The landscape-design firm MNLA developed a streetscape masterplan that includes protected bike lanes, 350 trees, additional bike racks and benches, bioswales (extra-large tree pits designed to divert runoff…