The Briefly for December 10, 2019 – The "MTA Gets A Taste Of Their Own Medication" Edition
Beetlejuice needs a new home on Broadway. It's being evicted from the Winter Garden Theater on June 6 to make way for "The Music Man" starring Hugh Jackman. (Michael Paulson for NY Times)
Holiday windows you won’t want to miss. (Shaye Weaver for amNewYork)
Con Ed, who had a banner summer in New York, is raising its rates in 2020, 2021, and 2022. (Claire Lampen for Gothamist)
The MTA spent $600 million on 300 subway cars and only 18 arrived on time. These are the same trains that are less reliable than ones 30 years old. So not only are they providing poor service, but they're also regularly late. Who does that sound like? (Kathleen Culliton for Patch)
If you're the kind of person who goes out of your way to avoid hearing anyone singing Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You," you you'll want to avoid the Mariah Carey Christmas pop-up shop this weekend. (Will Gleason for Time Out)
The city will suspend its program sending homeless New Yorkers to slums and condemned apartment buildings in Newark after the city of Newark filed a lawsuit in an attempt to stop the practice. (Joe Anuta for Politico)
Fire up your Instagram account, the Museum of Ice Cream is back. (Lorence Fabricant for NY Times)
Imagine the kind of SantaCon-inspired event that even the SantaCon NYC organizers feel the need to distance themselves from. Welcome to SantaCon Hoboken. (Ben Yakas for Gothamist)
New York's most iconic Art Deco buildings, mapped. (Zoe Rosenberg for Curbed)
The mayor has tried to push his paid vacation legislation through the City Council, but despite his announcement that the city would pass it this year, it appears to be stuck in limbo with opposition from small businesses and Speaker Corey Johnson. Maybe if he spent more time being the mayor and less cosplaying as a presidential candidate there would have been a chance. (Erin Durkin for Politico)
The man who ate the $120,000 banana at Art Basel Miami Beach is Brooklyn artist David Datuna. He was not arrested for eating the banana. (Maya Kaufman and Staff for Patch)
If you're craving more banana and duct tape art, street artist Joseph Grazi spent his weekend "creating" new works near the Essex Street Market. (Bowery Boogie)
Photos: Inside the former Coffee Shop in Union Square-turned-Chase bank. (Elizabeth Kim for Gothamist)
Nightmare: Two women fell between subway cars and the train started moving at Broadway Junction shortly after midnight on Sunday. One woman died and the other is in stable position. (Ben Yakas for Gothamist)
7 enormous unfinished NYC infrastructure projects poised to change the city in the 2020s. (Caroline Spivack for Curbed)
Mapping the tech takeover of New York City. (Amy Plitt for Curbed)
Working in an Amazon warehouse is more dangerous than working in a coal mine, and 42 members of the City Council, State Senate and Assembly are demanding safety improvements in the Staten Island warehouse. (Kathleen Culliton for Patch)
The Infatuation’s favorite new dishes of 2019. (The Infatuation)