The Briefly for December 14, 2018 – The "A Private Midnight Tour of the L Train Tunnels" Edition
Here's something new, there are no major outages planned on the subways this weekend. Station closures and redirections are dotted around, but no line will be completely shut down. All the weekend's scheduled subway changes. (6sqft)
Is the NYPD replacing marijuana arrests with THC oil arrests? (TimesLedger)
Everyone can relax! After his private tour of the L train tunnels, which disrupted service of the L train tunnels, Governor Amazon Cuomo has decided the shutdown is "vital and complicated." The shutdown was announced in January of 2016, the Governor waited nearly three years to being his "investigation." (NY Post)
Michael Brogan, Brooklyn's dumbest man, called a senator with his own phone and threatened to shoot her (the senator is not named). He was arrested. (Daily News)
A five-alarm five injured twelve, including seven firefighters, Thursday morning in Sunnyside. The fire was brought under control and damaged multiple buildings, but not before a visually jarring backdraft was caught video. (Gothamist)
A guide to Grand Central Terminal. (Curbed)
Think Long Island City rent is already high? The Amazon effect hasn't touched it yet. (The Real Deal)
The mysterious L train green goop has not yet been identified. (Town & Village)
The city's latest noted-racist is Anna Lushchinkaya, who was recoded hitting and yelling racist slurs to a passenger. She was arrested after getting off the train. (NY Post)
The Park Slope Nitehawk Cinema has a opening date: December 19. (Brooklyn Paper)
Remember when Central Park held beauty pageants for goats? Prohibition was weird. (6sqft)
The most expensive neighborhood in the city is Tribeca. (Curbed)
Mystery solved! The person behind the creepy Mister Softee music that was coming from LinkNYC kiosks was Mark Thomas, the creator of the Payphone Project. (Gothamist)
Bystanders saved a woman who was shoved off the platform and onto the subway tracks at Union Square. The NYPD is investigating the incident. (NY Post)
The New York Times has discovered Brighton Beach through photographer Alexey Yurenev's work. (NY Times)
Does Elon Musk have a secret office on Rivington Street? (Bowery Boogie)
Greenpoint’s Community Board 1 rejected the liquor license for beer and wine of Bury the Hatchet, the neighborhood's new hatchet throwing bar, due to security concerns. CB votes are recommendations and the state's liquor authority will make the actual decision. (Greenpoint Post)
State legislators are getting a raise, but are complaining that their new $130,000 salaries won't be enough. The median salary in New York state is $64,894. (NY Post)
Staten Island and Brooklyn Democratic Congressmember-elect Max Rose is already seeing 2020 challengers pop up. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
Recently outed local homophobe Allasheed Allah, the man who allegedly punched a woman in the back of the head on the subway that resulted in a fractured spine, was arrested on Thursday. (amNY)
Winterfest at the Brooklyn Museum (but not run by the Brooklyn Museum) continues to be a shit show. What do you expect from a company called "Millennial Entertainment"? (Bklyner)
The 1 and 9 in "2019" has arrived in Times Square. (Viewing NYC)
The critics of NYC's best restaurants of 2018. (Eater)
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