The Briefly for April 15, 2019 – The "Last Week of the $2.75 Subway Fare" Edition
The weather this week will bring an "unsettled pattern" to us, which is code for "the weather's gonna suck." (amNY)
How to tip. Regardless of how you feel about the practice of tipping or how service workers are paid, we still tip. (Grub Street)
If you love your dog, no really love your dog, the Wilson has a dog's only menu that includes a $42 ribeye steak. (Eater)
MTA fare is going up on April 21, so you have until Subway to fill up your MetroCards with bonuses. (NY Times)
The L project starts on April 27, but don't let the MTA fool you. Starting tonight for the next two weeks there will be no service between Brooklyn and Manhattan from 10:30pm through 5am. (6sqft)
A Chipotle, a Pizza Hut, and all the other restaurants ordered closed last week by the Health Department. (Patch)
Out with the gross and in with the new. Say hello to the city's new restaurants. (amNY)
Six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a garden level, a pool and two saunas and it can be yours for a $195,000/month lease. (Patch)
New York is not the most expensive place on earth to build. It's the second most expensive. (The Real Deal)
From the man who claimed that homosexual community controls the city, here comes a Congressional run. (Patch)
The NYCHA can't seem to get repairs one on time, but they sure didn't wait a second longer than they had to when evicting a 72-year-old man recovering from amputation surgery in the Bronx over $812. (amNY)
Deep breath in. Hold it. An alcohol-free bar has opened in Greenpoint. And exhale slowly. (Greenpointers)
Forget MoviePass, here comes the Alamo Season Pass. (Gothamist)
Punk Island released its first batch of bands for the free festival on June 22. (BrooklynVegan)
The MTA has until June 30 to put its fare evasion strategy to paper, thanks to legislation in the state's budget in an attempt to get the NYPD, the boroughs' DA offices, and the MTA on the same page. (Patch)
Employees at the American Museum Natural History are threatening resignations and boycotts over the museum's refusal to cancel a gala celebrating confirmed monster and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. (Gothamist)
Giving students a say in how their school's budgets are allocated? What a novel idea. (Gothamist)
Riding a bus in the city is bad enough before you start throwing cups of pee in anyone's face. (CBS Local)
Did you say Bryant Park beads? No. BEES. (Bryant Park BeeCam)
The MTA's weekend reputation isn't going to get any better with stories like this. The MTA shut down subways to Roosevelt Island after the stations were overwhelmed by people trying to get to the Cherry Blossom Festival. (Gothamist)
Remember those 1,000 new electric bikes that Citi Bike was going to add to their fleet? They've been pulled due to some questions about their brakes. (Streetsblog)
A body was found in the Bronx River inside of the New York Botanical Garden on Saturday. There were no signs of trauma and the medical examiner's office is investigating. (amNY)
Listen, birds are cool now, so look to the skies. (Patch)
After the New York Post put an image of September 11 on its cover to make a questionable and tasteless point, multiple groups are calling for a boycott. That will include The Briefly. No more links to the Post for a while. (NY Times)
A look inside Amazon's Staten Island fulfillment center, robots and all. (amNY)
Chameleon, the Financial District's local comic shop on Maiden Lane, closed after 30 years. An increase would have put his rent over $10,000 for five hundred square feet, just East of Broadway. (NY Times)
It'll be the newer New Museum. The New Museum is looking to expand into a new seven-story structure next to where the museum currently stands on Bowery. (Bowery Boogie)
17 places to get an affordable brunch. What does "affordable" mean? That depends. (The Infatuation)
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