The Briefly for August 15, 2018 – Hang Out with Dogs, El Chapo Shuts Down the Brooklyn Bridge, and More
Hang out with dogs without being life partners with one, a guide from Brokelyn.
If you want to support former-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, you can rent an apartment from him for $25,000 a month.
Just in case getting around the city was too easy, the Pulaski Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens will be closed to cars, buses, pedestrians, and bikes between midnight and 5am every weekday until September 7.
City Council Member Helen Rosenthal is calling on the city to install a two-way protected bike lane on Central Park West after a garbage truck driver struck and killed 23-year-old Australian tourist Madison Lyden.
According to the DOT "132,253 drivers have been observed through Friday, August 10th exceeding the speed limit by more than 10 miles per hour during school hours." The city can no longer issue tickets to people who speed in school zones with cameras because the State Senate has been impotent to reauthorize the Every School Speed Camera Act.
The sets of yellow footprints on a C train have been seen for the last three months have not inspired confidence in the MTA's ability to clean its subway cars.
Despite the raising minimum wage and displayed calorie counts, fast food restaurants like McDonalds and Chick-Fil-A are thriving throughout the city.
Despite his primary loss to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York's weird election laws will ensure that Joe Crowley's name is still on the ballot for the general election.
Candytopia is the latest eye-rolling Instagram-trap dressed up like an interactive art installation.
Did Andrew Cuomo promise Donald Trump he wouldn't run against him in 2020? Cuomo says no, Trump says yes.
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An unidentified body was discovered in the East River near the Williamsburg Bridge. NYPD are investigating, but have not released any other information.
Agostinho Sinclair, 41, of Far Rockaway, was arrested on charges including reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of an accident and aggravated unlicensed operator after hitting an 11-year-old boy on his bicycle on Monday. The boy is in stable condition.
A female professor at NYU has been suspended for the coming academic year after an 11-month Title IX investigation found that she had sexually harassed, both physically and verbally, one of her former male students.
El Chapo is being held in a high-security federal prison in Lower Manhattan, but each time he has to appear in court in Brooklyn, the entire Brooklyn Bridge needs to be cleared of all cars. When the trial begins in November, both sides of the bridge may become the city's latest commuting nightmare.
The MTA is calling for voluntary body cameras to help identify people who assault MTA workers. Bus and subway worker harassment has increased 11% in the last year, which included the recent story of a woman attacking a subway conductor.
Why bother with alternate side parking rules when you can just park directly in the middle of the street?
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