The Briefly for June 18, 2018 – 80 Flatbush, Coney Island, the Hottest Subway Car, a New Challenge to the Governor, and more
The only Mermaid Parade gallery of photos you'll ever need.
What are the colors of the city? Color Factory, the Smithsonian, and the Cooper Hewitt Museum have teamed up in “Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color,” a new installation in the back garden at Cooper Hewitt. Admission to see The Color Walk is free.
The latest Mobility Report is bleak. Transit ridership is getting smaller and the average speed on the streets are showing it. The population, employment, and tourism rise in 2017 while subway and bus ridership fell. Ride-hailing might be growing, but it's not helping congestion.
Bushwick Daily continues to show that Bushwick has happy hours with your time with the latest in their happy hour series based on subway stops on the L with a focus on the Morgan Ave stop.
One of the biggest fights in Brooklyn for the foreseeable future will be about 80 Flatbush. The proposal is for two buildings, one 38 stories and the other 74 (as tall as the Chrysler Building), would include 700 apartments, 200 permanently affordable apartments, a 15k square foot "cultural space," 40k square feet of retail, and two schools.
Coney Island's Shore Theater is becoming a seven story hotel. Coney Island could have had a theater that would if it was restored.
Filming Around Town: The Kichen, starring Melissa McCarthy, is at 10th and W 25th, John Wick 3 is at 44th and 7th, Ray Donovan is near Washington Square Park, and The Deuce is at 4th and 43rd in Brooklyn.
The never-ending construction on the 2/3 actually has an end. Weekend and weeknight service will be restored by June 25. Only one more week...
The stories of the Sing for Hope pianos in each neighborhood's local news sites has been a delight. This one is from the Times Ledger and tells the story of the Paul Raymond Playground in Astoria's piano.
New York's hottest subway car is 1872 in the 1. It has everything. Sweltering people, panting dogs, melting popsicles, and a faulty HVAC that doesn't have a backup system.
Residents and participants are unhappy about the last-minute changes to the Pride parade's route and staging area.
Public service announcement: If you have an unlimited MetroCard, it's legal to swipe other people in for free.
Takeru Kobayashi returned to Coney Island during the Mermaid Parade to eat some hot dogs in a non-competitive fashion. He was at the Feltman's of Coney Island, which has no connection to the original Feltman's of Coney Island.
Move over Cynthia Nixon, because a new challenger has arrived. Stephanie Miner, the former Syracuse mayor and a former top Democrat official, is making a run for Governor as an independent.
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