The "Another Primary Today, Go Vote" Edition
Go vote in today's primary, a look at the mayor's nightlife, the impact of Manhattan rents on the rest of the city, Diplo played Katz's, Trader Joe's wine shop and unionization, and more
Today - Low: 73˚ High: 79˚
Rain and humid throughout the day.
Thanks to reader Craig for contributing to The Briefly.
• Get your polling site and see an example ballot. (vote.nyc)
• Turnout was low for early voting in this primary, so it's time to get your ass to vote. (Rachel Holliday Smith for The City)
• A breakdown of the city's state Senate races. (Bobby Cuza for NY1)
• The mayor's endorsements in the primary have been an attempt to push the Democrats less progressive in his seemingly endless fight against his own political party. (Jeffrey C. Mays for NY Times)
• It's pretty easy to conclude that the Brooklyn Democratic Party sucks if you've done any reading about them. Here's another reason: They've blocked a poll worker after being quoted in an article by The City. (Yoav Gonen for The City)
• As rents get more and more expensive in Manhattan, demand in the outer boroughs is increasing. The maps show interests pushing further and further from lower Manhattan. (Kenny Lee for StreetEasy)
• If your landlord is trying to raise your rent, here are three sample emails you can use to negotiate. (Jennifer White Karp for Brick Underground)
• Remember the carriage horse that collapsed in the street towards the start of the month? Although early reports that the animal was healthy, an examination by the NYPD shows this horse was in serious trouble, including that the horse was working past the age allowed by the Department of Health, was malnourished, and underweight. It is time to end the use of carriage horses in our city. (Dean Moses for amNY Metro)
• Map: How bad is parking placard abuse? Check out the map outlining just how bad it's gotten. It's astounding. (Streetsblog)
"Personally, I could care less that Adams like to go to restaurants, or even clubs that scan your retina for entry. But the ethics surrounding his relationships—and how they’re blatantly mutually beneficial in a way that makes my stomach hurt—undoubtedly require further dissection."
-Audra Henrichs, We Need to Talk About the Latest Eric Adams Story in the New York Times for Jezebel
• Photos: Splooting squirrels. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)
• The country has recovered the number of jobs lost from the pandemic while the city sits at 82%. A look at entertainment, construction, and retail, where the gaps still exist. (Greg David for The City)
• A goat talent show for the goats who have been eating their way through Riverside Park this summer is happening this Friday. You can vote online right now! (Mike Mishkin for I Love the Upper West Side)
• Representative Yvette Clarke and State Senator Kevin Parker are drawing attention to the raised concerns about the quality of care at Maimonides Medical Center. They're asking the Department of Health commissioner to investigate claims of poor care made by patients. Maimonides is a safety-net hospital serving uninsured, Medicare, or Medicaid patients. (Kirstyn Brendlen for Brooklyn Paper)
• Park Slope's Good Wine is one of the few Black-owned wine shops in the United States. After a series of setbacks that are all-too-familiar in the last three years, a GoFundMe page is more than halfway to its $75,000 fundraising goal. (Brooklyn Magazine)
• 21 splurge-worthy restaurants, unranked and only in Manhattan and Brooklyn. (Ryan Sutton for Eater)
• The city is dismantling abandoned outdoor dining sheds. (Matt Troutman for Patch)
• The state is ending requirements that classrooms quarantine after a student tests positive for Covid-19. The state is removing many Covid-19 restrictions in schools as we roll closer to the start of the school year. The city's restrictions are separate from the state, but the mayor made public comments that the loosening of restrictions is a "step in the right direction." (Matt Troutman for Patch)
• McNally Jackson is opening a location in Rockefeller Center in the ongoing effort to make locals visit Rockefeller Center on purpose. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)
• Six picks for thrifting in the Village, East Village, and NoHo. (Hew Evans for GVSHP)
• Ten famous people that are buried in the city. Charles Fentiman, the man who brought hot dogs to Coney Island, is omitted. Maybe he doesn't qualify because he's in a mausoleum? I don't know the rules. (Shervin Abdolhamidi for Untapped New York)
• If you want to be one of the first people through the door at the new Astor Place Wegman's, they're hiring. (EV Grieve)
• What the hell was City Councilmember Vicky Paladino trying to accomplish when she posted a video of her confronting a squatter and had weed smoke blown in her face? I guess if she wanted headlines about it, congrats Vicky. Here you go. (Kayla Levy for Patch)
• The least likely place for a Diplo show is Katz's Deli, but Diplo played Katz's on Sunday. (Molly Osberg for Hell Gate)
• Nine surprising uses for Ellis Island. Diplo concert is not on the list. (Nicole Saraniero for Untapped New York)
• The city spent $90 million on air purifiers for schools that do not use HEPA filters, as the CDC and EPA recommended. The story behind why these purifiers were purchased is just as sketchy as you already expect it to be. A small taste of the sketch? A lobbyist for the company was married to someone on de Blasio's Covid-19 response team. (Christopher Werth for Gothamist)
• If you come across some youths who want to use your phone to make a call, it could be a scam! Don’t hand your phone to someone you don't know. Dial the phone for them and hold it yourself, but never hand it over. (Mike Mishkin for I Love the Upper West Side)
• The first case of Monkeypox in someone under 18 has been reported in the state. There are currently 2,964 reported cases in the city. (Ben Yakas for Gothamist)
• How to investigate your next apartment like a reporter. (Lisa Song for ProPublica, co-published with The City)
• The story of the city's "what to do if someone drops a nuclear bomb" video is almost as bizarre as the video itself, including that it was completed in 2019 for $400,000 and then sat there for years, unused. (Emma G. Fitzsimmons, Jeffrey C. Mays for NY Times)
• Did Trader Joe's close the Union Square wine shop because its employees attempted to unionize? It depends who you ask. (EV Grieve)
• Eli Zabar swears that his opposition to a proposed Safe Haven shelter is rooted in construction practices and not the fact that when you think of who a NIMBY might be, you immediately picture someone like Eli Zabar. (Nick Garber for Patch)
• A speakeasy bookstore in Greenpoint, hiding behind a bodega. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)
• How to escape New York City without actually leaving New York City. (Shiloh Frederick for Shiloh in the City)
• 14 destination-worthy restaurants in the Lower East Side. (Robert Sietsema for Eater)
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Featured City Pet: Crouton!
Thanks to reader Kim for sending in this combo of photos showing off Crouton’s splooting! Send in your pet photos to thebriefly@gmail.com
Crouton c’est magnifique!