The Briefly for December 26, 2018 – The "A Bronx Zoo Inside A One Bedroom Apartment" Edition
The gender pay gap among city workers is three times larger than in the private sector. The City Council's Introduction 633 will mandate an annual report that will highlight gender, ethnic, or racial pay gaps. (Metro)
There will be no overnight or weekend 7 train service between Manhattan and Queens in January of February. Happy New Year! (Sunnyside Post)
The E, M, and J trains will hobble into 2019 with extensive delays through the end of the year. (6sqft)
Two 80 pound snapping turtles, an eel, a dove, multiple smaller turtles, fish, a pit bull puppy, and a possum were seized by Animal Care and Control from one bedroom apartment in the Bronx that Richie Rodriquez shared with his wife and 6-year-old daughter. (Gothamist)
Over 2,500 adults in New York state are in solitary confinement between 23 and 24 hours a day. The HALT Solitary Confinement Act passed the State Assembly in June but not the State Senate. Activists are lobbying the Governor to alter solitary confinement to 15 hour days using his powers over the state's Department of Corrections. (Gothamist)
New York lost 48,510 people between July 2017 and July 2018, which could mean that New York would lost two congressional seats after the 2020 election. (NY Post)
Can Vinateria's chef Mimi Weissenborn make Eggs Benedict in a tiny Upper East Side kitchen with zero counter space? (Refinery 29)
CBGB's makes a return to NYC... in miniature as part of the Transit Museum's 17th Annual Holiday Train Show. (EV Grieve)
The five homeless men who wound up in a fight with an NYPD officer on Monday night have been released without charges. (NY Post)
Meet the Romp family, who have sold Christmas trees in the West Village since 1988. (Gothamist)
The city, the city's worst landlord, is unsurprisingly behind schedule on fixing peeling and possibly lead-tinted paint in NYCHA apartments. In order to meet its commitment to a federal judge, the city has to fix 2,800 apartments by the end of February. Only 190 apartment have been tended to since December 11. (NY Post)
By the time the MTA realized someone stole a city bus from the Bronx, it was eight hours later and the thief had already returned it. (NY Post)
City Comptroller Scott Stringer has a plan to help middle-income New Yorkers who buy homes. The plan will create 85,000 new apartments by taxing all-cash and mortgaged home purchases evenly, which will lower taxes for middle-income purchasers and impose a new tax on all-cash buyers and raise $400 million in the process. (Town & Village)
Get your photo featured or suggest stories for The Briefly by responding to this email or tagging your NYC photos and news on Instagram or Twitter with #thebriefly.