The "A Dead Rat Fell From the Ceiling" Edition
Oh my god, can you imagine stepping into your shower and seeing a dead rat? No thanks. Plus: Covid-19 rates drop, a $6 million Park Slope triplex, all you can eat restaurants, and more.
Thank you to Shannon, Roxanne, Ian M., and one anonymous person who contributed to The Briefly in the last week.
• Today's the deadline to change your voter registration before the next primary on June 27. (Brigid Bergin for Gothamist)
• Covid-19 cases fell 70% since the start of the year. Last I looked at a tracker, we were at 4%, down from nearly 10% at the start of the year. (Matt Troutman for Patch)
• Hospitals will make their own masking rules going forward, as the state dropped the medical masking mandate. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)
• Nightmare: A rat falls from your ceiling into your shower. (Rick Paulas for Hell Gate)
• Boomer Dads are fucking up the real estate market. (Adriane Quinlan for Curbed)
• Manhattan commuters are spending $4,661 less per year around their offices than before the pandemic. If rents weren't at all-time highs in Manhattan, maybe more people could afford to live closer to their offices. (Gwynne Hogan for Gothamist)
• How is it possible that wait times for NYCHA apartments doubled last year while the number of vacant units increased? (Jeanmarie Evelly for City Limits)
• If the words "conveyor-belt sushi" excites you, Eater has some good news for you. (Robert Sietsema for Eater)
• Time Out takes a stab at eight realistic New York City sitcoms. (Kristen Perrone for Time Out)
• The new LIRR schedule to and from Grand Central means changes are coming to Brooklyn's LIRR schedule. (Brooklyn Magazine)
• Hell Gate makes it plain: Perhaps Kathy Hochul Is Not Very Good at This Whole Politics Thing. (Hell Gate)
• "Flaco is a killer after all. Long live Flaco!" Flaco, the escaped Central Park Zoo owl, killed a rat. (Kathleen Culliton for Patch)
• NYC is the second-best city in the country when it comes to dating. Boston is topping NYC at the moment. (Shaye Weaver for Time Out)
• Apartment Porn: A $6 million Park Slope triplex with 3,610 square feet, five beds, four baths, a rear garden, parking, and more. (Devin Gannon for 6sqft)
• If you put your name into some wet cement on 2nd Ave with hopes of immortality, EV Grieve's got some bad news for you. (EV Grieve)
• A list of the finalists for the 2023 Gotham Book Prize, 11 books to reserve at the library. (Rossilynne Skena Culgan for Time Out)
• How many different kinds of subway cars can you name? Here are nine non-passenger subway cars. All aboard the pump train. (Untapped New York)
• Ten alternative ways to celebrate Valentine's Day, not including the pump train. (Nicole Saraniero for Untapped York)
• Why the hell does it cost us $1.5 billion per mile to build subways? (Christopher Bonanos for Curbed)
• I'll admit, it's refreshing to see a newly constructed that isn't visually boring at its peak, and The Brooklyn Tower's neo-Deco crown is not visually boring. At 1,06, it's Brooklyn's tallest building. (Devin Gannon for 6sqft)
• Inside the Montauk Club in Park Slope. (Michelle Young for Untapped New York)
• Eight all-you-can-eat restaurants. Not one AYCE pizza place in the city. (Luke Fortney for Eater)
Top Clicked Links from the Last Edition:
For $2.4M, This Park Slope Home Is Renovated With an Enviable Rooftop
It’s Malibu Versus Hollywood at This Battle of the Diner Burgers
Featured Pet: Gustav!
Thanks, Jenny, for sending in this photo of Gustav having… a reaction to a cucumber. Angry? Yawning? Only Gustav knows such things.