The "An Obscenely Simple Guide to the Election" Edition

Tons of pets in Halloween costumes, the city is safer than the suburbs, companies are immediately abusing the new pay transparency law, how much would TV characters pay for rent in 2022, and lots more

Today - Low: 59˚ High: 66˚
Partly cloudy throughout the day.
This weekend - Low: 62˚ High: 69˚

In the last edition, I asked for photos of pets in Halloween costumes, and y’all delivered! You can still email me more pets in costumes to thebriefly@gmail.com, and I’ll put them in the next edition.

I haven’t created a voting guide in the past because voting guides seem like a lot of work. This year I decided to make the most simple, straightforward guide possible.

Regular consumers of the news would thus be forgiven for believing that the Big Apple has become a terribly dangerous place. And yes, it is markedly more dangerous than it was before the pandemic. I’m not here to dismiss concerns about rising crime in the city. But a little context is in order. And by “a little context,” I mean a lot of charts.
-Justin Fox, New York City Is a Lot Safer Than Small-Town America for Bloomberg

• A guide to the governor's race. (Jon Campbell for Gothamist)

• The City brings the suicide of Segundo Guallpa into focus from August 2021, who scratched a suicide note into the wall of his cell while the guard responsible for his supervision filed false reports about making tours of the area. (George Joseph for The City with additional reporting from Reuven Blau)

• The city's new pay transparency law went into effect, and there are companies bullshitting with their job listings immediately. Citigroup is the biggest bullshitter, listing multiple jobs between $0 and $2 million. The law states the range has to be posted in good faith, so it's time to penalize every last one of these assholes. (Gwynne Hogan for Gothamist)

• Speaking of bullshit, the mayor's office claims that only 1.5% of city streets are "filthy." Even with that bullshit number being used, it's more than doubled this year compared to last year's 0.6%. Even using Candyland numbers, it's still indicative that they're doing a lousy job. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)

Thank you to Marissa for sending in this photo of Molly

• A state appeals court reversed a Republican-led challenge to New York’s absentee-voting laws, declining the party’s attempt to invalidate perhaps hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots. (Jon Campbell and Brigid Bergin for Gothamist)

• In a world of crappy umbrellas destined for the trash, meet the quality umbrella guy. (Aaron Short for Hell Gate)

• Con Artist Anna Delvey wants you over for dinner, but you'll have to pay for the privilege. Under house arrest since being released, she is hosting a dinner series in her $4,250/month apartment. Maybe while you're there, you can buy one of her prison sketches, priced between $17,500 and $25,000. (Luke Fortney for Eater)

• How much NYC TV characters would pay for rent in 2022? Unrecognized is that Carrie Bradshaw's apartment was under rent control and her rent was $700, which is about $1,400 today. (Shaye Weaver for Time Out)

Nomi is a hero for sending in this photo of Jake!

• The city will pay $26 million to Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, who were wrongfully convicted of killing Malcolm X. The civil settlement reflects the scope of “misconduct” by NYPD and FBI officials who handled the case. (Jake Offenhartz for Gothamist)

• Make weekend plans. It's peak fall foliage in Central Park. (Rossilynne Skena Culgan for Time Out)

• A guide to this weekend's NYC Marathon. How to watch, street closures, and a map of the course. (Kathleen Culliton for Patch)

• Apartment Porn: Trevor Noah's $13 million Hell's Kitchen penthouse with two floors, 15-foot ceilings, three bedroom suites, a 1,000 square foot terrace, a heated plunge pool, a black marble powder room, a home theater, and more. (Michelle Cohen for 6sqft)

Chelsea made my day by sending this photo of Mabel and Mabel’s cousin dog.

• The eight best public art installations in the city this month. (Irene Madrigal for Untapped New York)

• The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has been selected. Impress your friends by telling them it was from Queensbury, NY. Then you can say to them that Queensbury is upstate. (Shaye Weaver for Time Out)

• 14 ways to celebrate Native American Heritage Month in NYC. (Aaron Ginsburg for 6sqft)

• From the artist who brought us memorials of the fictional Brooklyn Bridge elephant stampede, the octopus attack on the Staten Island Ferry, and the UFO abduction during the blackout of 1977, here is a monument to Porkchop, the bulldog bootlegger. Porkchop, the bulldog bootlegger, did not live during prohibition and didn't bootleg, but don't let that stop you from enjoying the monument in Battery Park this weekend. (Nicole Saraniero for Untapped New York)

AAAAAAAAAA! Charlie the Scardey Cat, thanks to J for the photo.

• TikTok-famous Cloudy Donut is coming to Brooklyn Heights. Bring your friends, and don't tell them that it's vegan, or they'll get all annoying about it. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)

• I will read anything that contextualizes the modern world using Cheers. Amber Sutherland-Namako's Let me tell you—all the good cocktails already exist is a solid read. (Amber Sutherland-Namako for Time Out)

Top Clicked Links in the Last Edition:

1. Conservatives Explain Why They Are Terrified Of New York City

2. Man in a Nazi Costume Was Kicked Out of Fanelli Cafe in Soho

3. NYC’s 2022 Village Halloween Parade in pictures