The Briefly for August 21, 2018 – The N Train Goats, the Tinder Date Marketing Stunt, and More
The goats on the N train tracks were Monday's purest news story. The goats are being sent to an animal sanctuary upstate after delaying Coney Island bound trains for two hours.
Someone managed to cover an entire Q train in graffiti while it was off-platform overnight.
Five witching hot spots in Brooklyn, according to Brokelyn.
Dig into your block's history with the new NYC Street Map, which launched on Monday. Check out the history of your building, or see how the city has changed over the years.
The Lower East Side and East Village contain the highest concentration of community gardens in the United States. Untapped Cities takes a look at 11 of them.
Despite the press announcing that Mayor de Blasio was going to bike over the Brooklyn Bridge on his way to work this morning, he was nowhere to be found. The mayor's office claims he never promised to make the ride, but his staff was there. The mayor's office is pitching 1,000 pedal assisted electronic bikes as an option for stranded commuters during the L train shutdown. No word on what those riders should do when it snows.
A vintage photo from 1965 shows that Times Square used to experience times of relative darkness.
The city will be spraying for mosquitoes tonight in Queens, check the map to see if your neighborhood is being targeted.
Here's the insane story (and video!) of how dozens of guys were lured to Union Square by one woman on Tinder. Of course it was a marketing stunt.
Take a look inside the diners that are keeping NYC traditions alive.
With all the talk about the city's removal of trash bins throughout the city, you might want to know where the nearest bin is. The location of every trash bin in the city is available in one map.
The man who ran across four sets of subway tracks to stab someone claims he was doing so to stop a racist harasser. Bilal Abdullah, 52, is being held without bail and will undergo a psychiatric assessment.
Meet the man behind Staten Island’s Little League dynasty.
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