The Briefly for April 10, 2019 – The "Go To A Party And Get A Deadly Infectious Disease" Edition
The "dominatrix bullied out of Bed-Stuy" story has a somewhat happy ending. Charlotte Taillor was moved out of the uptight neighborhood by Lift NYC Movers, pro bono. (Brooklyn Paper)
Who's ready for another commuting nightmare? A fire at Union Square filled the station with smoke on Tuesday morning. (NY Post)
Ask yourself. Are you a good gentrifier or a bad gentrifier? (Bklyner)
Want to go to a party? What if I told you the point of the party was to give everyone who attends measles? The party favors are to die for. (Patch)
Mayor de Blasio declared a public health emergency yesterday in Williamsburg in order to stop the spread on measles. Anyone living in select zip codes who have not received the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine will be required to receive it, under threat of a violation and $1,000 fine. (NY Post)
The 100 tallest buildings in the city, arranged by height. (Top View)
See the Wonder Wheel get ready for its 100th season towering over Coney Island. (6sqft)
Just because your car can drive itself, doesn't mean it's legal to take your hands off the wheel. (Gothamist)
It wasn't felt in the city, but impress your friends by talking about how there was a "minor" earthquake yesterday. (Patch)
Governor Cuomo, seemingly never happy to be an ally to his own party, is publicly calling on the New York Democrats working to get their hands on the President's tax returns to release their own. (NY Post)
The City Council passed a bill to ban testing job applicants for marijuana. The bill has a few exceptions but has the full backing of the mayor. (Patch)
There will not be a nurses strike. The New York State Nurses Association reached a tentative deal with three major hospital systems, which includes hiring 1,450 nurses and a wage increase of 3% now has to be voted on by the union. (amNY)
RIP Christopher Slutman, a 15-year veteran of the FDNY, who was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. (NY Times)
Democratic Councilmember Robert Holden resigned from the city's immigration committee, citing the other members of the committee were too "far left." Holden serves Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Ridgewood, and parts of Woodside and Woodhaven, and said that ICE is "saving us from ... bad people who should not be in this country." (NY Post)
Quick reminder: It's illegal to wear slippers after 10pm in New York. (Huff Post)
How do you get great photos of Manhattan? Go as high as you can go, and then find a spire to climb to go even higher. (svvvk)
The inventor of the Wee Wee pads for dogs is selling his 5,427 square foot apartment. Want to see what $40 million of Wee Wee pads can buy you? (Curbed)
Where to go for a business lunch when the company is paying. (The Infatuation)
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