The Briefly for August 3, 2018 – Summer Streets, Weekend Subway Changes, Violence Interrupters, and More
Reminder: Summer Streets is this weekend
Check the weekend's subway changes before making any plans.
Inside the abandoned First Church of Christ on the corner of 96th and Central Park West.
A city sanitation truck hit a bicyclist in Bushwick and kept driving. The woman reportedly has a broken clavicle.
. The "micro-transit" vans offer a $4 ride and most weeks ridership fails to hit 1,000.
There are 18 taxpayer-funded "violence-interrupter" groups throughout high crime areas of the city, which mostly consist of former gang members and dealers. The groups work hand in hand with the police and intervene in situations where police interactions may do more harm than good.
The history of the 1977 law that was supposed to fix the high volume of arrests for marijuana possession, but skyrocketed to over 50,000 arrests under the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations.
$20 million over budget and after years of delays, the Rector St pedestrian bridge originally destroyed in the 9/11 attacks will not be ready for its fall deadline.
“This has absolutely nothing to do with race,” says hispanic Park Slope resident Arabel Torres, who called the police because a black woman was standing in her building's doorway during a sudden downpour.
Most bodegas are Dominican-American owner and here's why.
Governor Cuomo named a panel of 20 people to draft a bill to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
Filming around town: Netflix/Marvel's Jessica Jones w/Krysten Ritter is at W 45th and 10th, Instinct w/Alan Cumming is near Court Square in Long Island City, The Blacklist w/James Spader is at W 11th and 7th, and NBA 2K League is at Vernon Blvd and 43 Ave in Long Island City.
A condo board on the UES is trying to evict Chabad Lubavitch for running an illegal day care that is destroying their plumbing system with flushed diapers.
It's the 40th anniversary of the city's "Pooper Scooper" law, and to celebrate the Parks Department is installing 1,000 dog poop bag dispensers in parks.
The state approved funding for an MTA Sustainability Advisory Workgroup with the idea they would create a proposal to implement the Governor's "Fix NYC" plan. The workgroup has not met and most positions have not been filled.
Brooklyn's Republic of Booza is the only place in the city that servers booza, a traditional, stretchy ice cream, and has its roots in the Middle East.
After violating the law for months, Mayor de Blasio says the NYPD will release data on turnstile jumping enforcement on its website in a "matter of a few weeks."
The City Council added an additional million dollars to city funding of anti-sex trafficking organizations.
The East Village's rat-infested "Relation Garden" is finally getting cleaned up.