The Briefly for April 11, 2019 – The "Not the Best Place to Live, Not Even Close" Edition
New York's favorite news anchor, Pat Kiernan, has a new podcast. (NY1)
The state senate unanimously passed the Religious Garb Act, which will allow the wearing of "any attire, clothing, or facial hair" protected under the Human Rights Law for religious purposes. (QNS)
US News & World Report released the 2019 best places to live and we're... not #1. Are you insane? We're 90 out of 125. If you want #1, go move to Austin. (NY Post)
Maybe traffic cameras should, you know, police traffic regulations. That's what State Assembly Member Michael DenDekker is proposing by adding bicycle lane violations to what traffic cameras enforce. (Sunnyside Post)
Murderinos, this one has your name written all over it. An 80-year-old Queens man was arrested for a Virginia double murder from 1973. (Gothamist)
Turns out those protective sidewalk covers don't do much when the whole damn building collapses on top of them. No one was hurt when it happened in Williamsburg, except a few cars and maybe a penny-farthing bicycle or unicycle. It's Williamsburg after all. (Gothamist)
A pizzeria shakedown straight out of a Jon Stewart comedy routine, but it's real and the "mobsters" are facing up to 20 years in prison. (Brooklyn Paper)
These marijuana entrepreneurs have HIGH hopes for legalization. Get it? HIGH HOPES! Ugh. (Gothamist)
What to see right now in the city's art galleries. (NY Times)
A guided dumpling crawl through Queens. (Eater)
After 35 years, bookbook on Bleecker Street will be closing. In order to stay open, the store would need a rent reduction and in 2019, that ain't happening. (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
The five best grilled cheeses in the city. (Thrillist)
Foreclosures in the Bronx are up 28% in the first quarter of 2019. (Welcome2TheBronx)
The city's shortest bike lane has been found. (Brooklyn Paper)
This weekend's "Blessing of the Rides" in Coney Island is a New York City annual tradition. Here's what to expect from the egg cream christening to the blessing itself. (amNY)
A group of transit workers is calling the L Project's (the new and crappy name for the non-shutdown) air quality into question with flyers saying the silica dust in the air is a danger to anyone who breathes it in. (Gothamist)
Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez' office broke up a gun trafficking ring after an undercover detective purchased three dozen guns, including automatic weapons. (amNY)
The Harlem School of the Arts will undergo a $9.5 million renovation that will begin in August and update the brutalist style exterior of the building with a glass wall, and make other welcome improvements. (NY Times)
There is no law dictating that your apartment be 80% covered with rugs, but most leases include it in a clause. What are the consequences for not complying? Well, that's a little harder to define. (StreetEasy)
A look inside Manhattan's first Ikea. It looks a lot like an Ikea, but you're gonna look anyway. (Curbed)
The inevitable lawsuit over the city's vaccine mandate has arrived. (Gothamist)
Why is there a 3,000 square foot bounce house in Dumbo? Because art, of course. (Time Out)
NYC is being afflicted by a Y2K-esque bug in some of its GPS systems. This is a once every twenty year GPS reset and city officials are being very tight-lipped about it. (NY Times)
What's going on with the smoldering anus in Union Square? (Gothamist)
Saturday is Record Store Day, the most important holiday for the vinyl obsessed and for record store owners across the city. (amNY)
A look at City Hall Station, the unused subway station where the 6 train turns around which shows the grandeur of how the subways could have been. (NY Times)
The best neighborhoods for college grads. (Localize Labs)
Is removing stops the right way to make a bus route faster? Consider the case of the M14. (Bowery Boogie)
An interview with Carlo Scissura, the head of the new BQE expert panel. (Brooklyn Eagle)
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