The Briefly for August 29, 2018 – The Times Square Bees is the Distraction We Need From the Heat
Please be careful in today's heat. Check the city's maps for your local cooling center if you don't have access to an air conditioned building.
"15,000 bees swarm a hot dog stand in Times Square" is not the news story that we wanted, but it's the news story we deserve. The NYPD has beekeepers who handled the scene. According to Gizmodo's Editor in Chief, the bees will be okay after being vacuumed. The @NYPDBees Twitter account was simply buzzing with activity afterwards.
Prospect Expressway could see major changes in the coming years. The "PX Forward" report outlines multiple ways to address issues that Robert Moses's highway has inflicted on Park Slope and Windsor Terrace.
It's a battle over who controls the thermostat at the Nixon/Cuomo debate. Cuomo is known for keeping "meat locker" temperatures wherever he goes and Nixon has specifically requested 76 degrees. The debate is tonight at 7pm and will air on WCBS. Yes, office temperature can be sexist.
Louis C.K. should not be allowed to perform unannounced. The man who admitted to masturbating in front of multiple women of a number of years performed at the Comedy Cellar on Sunday night. He made no mention of why he disappeared from public life for nine months.
Spending the day with art, shopping, comic books, pizza, pinball, and boozy ice cream in Kips Bay, guided by amNY.
Eight ways to celebrate Labor Day weekend, from Untapped Cities.
An unknown aerosol substance was sprayed on the B15 bus for the third time in two weeks. The suspect ran off after the attack.
Hate crimes are down 8% this year.
The "Pencil Museum" is a pop-up installation in Staten Island's Faber Pool and Park that pays tribute to Greenpoint's Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory and is sponsored by Art in the Parks.
Ulkis Gryka has ended his "Sisyphus Stones" project in Fort Washington Park. For one year, Gryka would go to the park and meticulously balance hundreds of stones to create an otherworldly stone garden.
SpikedSeltzer is giving out free bikes to today and tomorrow to the first 20 people who are 21 and over from 5:30 to 7:30pm in memory of the soon-to-be-dead L train.
Are you familiar with Dead Horse Bay?
Attorney General Democratic candidates will debate one last time on 9/6, one week before the primary on September 13th and will be hosted by radio host Brian Lehrer and podcaster (and former U.S. Attornet) Preet Bharara. NY1 liveblogged last night's debate. (Watch the video (if you have NY1 with your cable package).
An economics class at Success Academy, a charter school in the city, saw nepotism on display when the college sophomore son of Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, Culver Grannis Moskowitz, taught class. The school says he's only temporarily filling in for a teacher who quit. 49 of the school's 67 teachers are not returning this year.
The Gowanus rezoning isn't enough for developers, who are asking to construct buildings taller than ten stories along the canal.
The last minute move from 125 White St to 80 Centre St has upset activists in Chinatown who criticized the city for a lack of public discussion about the location change.
For the second time in a week, two bags containing human remains were found in the Bronx. The first was found outside Crotona Park and the second in Hunts Point.
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