The Briefly for July 1, 2019 – The "If You’re Going to Use Cocaine, Use It With Someone Else" Edition
For the week of July 4, subway service disruptions are reduced, but that doesn't mean zero. (Subway Weekender) A look at the weather ahead: There's a chance of rain later in the week, which potentially isn't great for firework revelers. (amNY)
A focus on the 14 cyclists who died in crashes in the first half of 2019. The last two, Robyn Hightman, 20, and Ernest Askew 57, died last week. (Patch)
If you're on the Coney Island Boardwalk in the future and you see “‘Rusty’ Kanokogi Way,” know it's in honor of the mother of women's judo. Kanokogi, born Rena Glickman, got her start with a haircut, taped down breasts and winning a championship match while disguised as a man. She was found out to be a woman, but that wouldn't stop her. The community board voted to honor her by renaming a part of the Boardwalk in her honor. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
"If you’re going to use cocaine, use it with someone else." Real advice from the commissioner from the Department of Health. In an effort to fight opioid overdoses, the DOH has is visiting bars to provide Naloxone kits. The worry isn't that someone can't handle their cocaine, but that it's laced with fentanyl. Doing cocaine in pairs is to ensure someone can call 911. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
One of the original copies of the Declaration of Independence is in New York this week, on display at the New York Public Library for you Nic Cage types. (6qsft)
The city is rejecting Title X funding as a result of an abortion gag rule put in place by the Trump administration. Under the new rule, any facility that provides abortions is ineligible for funding under the new rule, and the city has no plans on allowing that to happen. (amNY)
Manitoba's, the East Village punk rock bar, is closed. While the reason is unknown, it seems like the bar simply ran out of money. (@handsomedickmanitoba)
ThriveNYC, in an attempt to justify its continued existence, has decided that measurable outcomes are finally worthwhile. The program, spearheaded by the mayor's wife, has already spent over half a billion dollars with nearly another billion committed to it and it wasn't until the city council asked to see results that the ball started rolling on metrics. (Gotham Gazette)
While Tiffany Cabán has been accepted as the de facto winner of the Queens DA election, the results aren't certified with only 98.58% of the votes counted and thousands of absentee and paper ballots to be checked. Cabán's lead is 1,090 votes as of Monday morning. (Sunnyside Post)
MAGA hat-wearing jackass Willie Ames was convicted of a hate crime for yelling slurs about Mexicans while pushing a man onto the subway tracks in April. (Gothamist)
Workers at the Guggenheim voted to unionize, joining the same union that represents workers at MoMA PS1. They join workers at BAM and the New Museum in unionizing in a movement across the city focused on cultural organizations. (NY Times)
Is there anything a greater threat to our way of life than a nipple on social media? Eva Mueller was one of 125 nude protesters in Astor Place earlier this month, working towards the liberation of the human body in her art. Banned multiple times from social media, Mueller doesn't plan on stopping her fight against what she sees as censorship. (Bushwick Daily)
Real estate brokers have, unsurprisingly, protested the city council's cap on their fees. You'd protest too. (Gothamist)
This week's high score for health department code violation points is 150. For reference, 28 points will earn you a C. Here's this week's restaurants ordered closed by the Department of Health. (Patch)
Today's the start of the 14th St busway, but it's not. A NY Supreme Court judge blocked the Third-to-Ninth Ave busway as a result of a lawsuit from residents of the West Village, Chelsea, and the Flatiron District. (Curbed)
The city's schools will allow students to officially change their gender but in the spirit of never completely solving a problem, there will only be two gender options, leaving students who don't identify as male or female in the cold. (Patch)
Say hello to some real trash designs. Two new prototypes for garbage cans across the city have been revealed as a part of the BetterBin competition. (Gothamist)
Today's freak shows are similar to the shows of a century ago in name only. Meet the freaks of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow. (Patch)
Photos from the Pride March. (NY Times)
No, lots of photos from the Pride March. (BrooklynVegan)
There were an estimated 150k marchers, so "a lot" of photos doesn't seem to cover it. (amNY)
The Queer Liberation March asked "Justice and change, or corporate pride?" in its presentation as an alternative. There were photos. (NY Times)
Some photo galleries included photos from the Queer Liberation March along with the Pride March. (Patch)
The Dyke March, another less-corporate Pride March alternative also has its own photo galleries. (NY Times)
There are multiple Dyke March galleries too, documenting the March's 27th year. (Gothamist)
Some Dyke March galleries, like parts of the march itself, are NSFW. (BrooklynVegan)
Pride weekend started off with the Drag March, an event that is 25 years old and has its roots in drag queens and leathermen not being allowed to march in the Pride March for fear of scaring off the corporate sponsors. One of the original organizers of the drag march was Gilbert Baker, designer of the rainbow flag. The march is unpermitted and unsanctioned. There are, of course, photos. (Gothamist)
And even more photos from the Drag March! (EV Grieve)
The firve best hot dogs in the city. (Thrillist)
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