The Briefly for January 7, 2018 – The "Surviving A Fall Onto the Subway Tracks" Edition
The No Pants Subway Ride is this weekend, plan accordingly. (Gothamist)
That L train un-shutdown? It still needs the MTA board's approval. (amNY)
Forget eggroll squirrel, here comes Oreo Squirrel! (West Side Rag)
He fell onto the subway tracks and SURVIVED! An unidentified man fell onto the track and laid underneath the train as it went over him. He was taken to the hospital as a precaution, but he walked away uninjured. (NY Post)
Brooklyn’s first medical marijuana dispensary opened across from the Barclays Center. Only qualifying patients for now. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
Kindergarten impossible. How did this 5-year-old boy escape his school and get on a subway platform without being noticed? (Gothamist)
"I Eat from UWS Dumpsters and So Should You" Not me, that's the headline. (West Side Rag)
The holidays are over, we've landed back in full-steam-ahead early January, you know what time it is? Girl Scout cookies. If you don't have a Girl Scout in your life, here's how to score some Tagalongs. (amNY)
NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill continues to think of new reasons to worry about marijuana legalization. Last week it was the retirement of marijuana-sniffing dogs, this week the excuses are underage use (which did not go up in Colorado after weed became legal) and grow house explosions. (NY Post)
The history of NYC style pizza in under eight minutes. (DidYouKnowFood)
The 168th and 181st 1 train stations in Washington Heights will be closing for nearly a year, here's how to get around during the closure. (amNY)
Mayor de Blasio launched the Fair Fares program, as you'd expect from our mayor, with too little information for too little people and late. (Politico)
A portion of Northern Boulevard around 114th Streets collapsed into a construction site on Friday and it is indefinitely closed between 111th and 114th and indefinitely. There were no injuries and no utility disruptions. (Jackson Heights Post)
Apartment owners in the Citylights co-op in Long Island City are protesting the scheduled end of their 20-year real estate tax abatement. Since 1997, the co-op has been paying a discounted tax rate on apartments that originally sold between $10k and $65, which are now worth close to 16x their original value. (LIC Post)
Two firehouses in Queens were closed due to a scabies outbreak. Scabies is... gross and let's not discuss that it's caused by bugs that crawl under your skin and lay eggs. (NY Post)
Brooklyn lawyer Rashaun Kelley was arrested in connection to a series of sexual assaults which date back to 2014. He faces sex abuse, burglary and attempted rape charges. (CBS New York)
"Happy New Year from your future neighbors at Amazon." Amazon has started their charm offensive. (Amazon)
A profile of Figure Skating in Harlem, where young women of color train to compete in a spot dominated by whites. (NY Times)
The First Street Garden Art Park has a new mural to match one of Congress' new faces: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (@lexibellaart)
RIP to one of NYC's centenarians, “Big Helen” Sieczkowski, who passed away on January 2nd at 100 years young. (Bklyner)
Unsurprisingly, New York was not on the list of cities where you can buy a home with an annual salary of $60k or less. (The Real Deal)
The head of the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission will step down with no successor announced by City Hall. After the sixth suicide by a cab driver in the last 13 months, there have been calls for Meera Joshi to step down from drivers and politicians. (Crain's New York)
Albany "diverted" hundreds of millions of dollars over the last ten years meant for emergency communication services, according to the FCC. NY uses the money for "non-public safety or unspecified uses." The governor's office refutes that claim. (NY Post)
The Bronx Riviera is planning a roaring comeback with a $75 million renovation of the landmarked Orchard Beach pavilion. The project is still in the planning phase, a date has not been set for completion. (amNY)
Our mayor, the cartoon character. (NY Times)
The city spent $4.1 million over three years to give deer vasectomies in Staten Island in hopes of reducing the number of road accidents, but 2018's 103 accidents with 17 injuries marked an all-time high. (NY Post)
If you don't know Paul Manship's name, you've seen his work. His sculptures inhabit Central Park like the "Group of Bears" or the gates to the Children's Zoo, but Prometeus, which looks over the skating rink at Rockefeller Center, is likely his best known work in the city. (Ephemeral New York)
A map of every bagel shop in New York City. (Brooklyn Bagel Blog)
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