The Briefly for July 11, 2019 – The "A Love Letter to the Salt Bagel" Weekend Edition
The president’s ICE raids scheduled to take place this weekend have included New York as a target. The governor announced anyone in need of assistance may contact the Liberty Defense Project via the New York State New Americans Hotline at 1-800-566-7636 or liberty@dos.ny.gov.
What should you do if ICE is at your door or the door of someone you know? Here are the ACLU’s guidelines and outlines of your rights. (ACLU)
The Amazon Web Services Summit at the Javitz Center drew crowds protesting Amazon's involvement with ICE with their Rekognition Video system. (amNY)
Riding the subway still sucks, but it sucks the least its sucked since 2013, with an on-time performance over 80%. (Curbed)
Check the trains before you venture out this weekend. This is the last weekend of reduced L train service before the multi-week night and weekend partial shutdown starts and remains through January. (Subway Weekender)
R. Kelly was arrested by the NYPD and Homeland Security in Chicago on federal sex trafficking charges and is expected to be brought to New York to face those charges. (NBC New York)
A love letter to the salt bagel. (Eater)
The NYPD claims to have figured out the reason for an uptick of shootings in northern Brooklyn: District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. The NYPD is blaming a program where weapons-possession offenders can plead guilty and take part in an educational program instead of being jailed. Putting the blame on this program has two flaws. The program is a decade old, the uptick in shootings are only in one portion of the borough while the program is borough-wide, and it does not apply to anyone who has used a gun, only those possessing them. (Brooklyn Paper)
Have mannequin, will carpool. A hero from New Jersey was pulled over on the Verrazzano Bridge for trying to using his "friend" as a reason to use the HOV lane. (Gothamist)
The photos your friends post to Instagram from Storm King are nice and all, but have you thought about who's job it is to mow the grass? Meet Mike Seaman, who leads a seven-person crew. (NY Times)
Much like Williamsburg, the neighborhood it calls home, the Feast of Our Lady Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola is changing with the times. For the first time organizers opened up the carrying of the giglio, a four-ton and 72-foot-tall spire, and a life-size sculpture of a boat, to outsiders. This Sunday is giglio Sunday. (NY Times)
Irving Plaza is closed for eight months to be renovated. (EV Grieve)
The city provides about 146 square feet of green space per resident, which is smaller than a 12 foot by 12-foot room. Of the fifteen major cities in the story, New York was dead last. (Patch)
Speaking of green space, Shirley Chisholm State Park can lay claim to the title of "the city's nicest park built on top of a toxic dump." (Curbed)
In reflection of its 20th year, Untapped Cities sat down with Friends of the High Line co-founder Robert Hammond to discuss his favorite places in the city, future public projects, the Spur, and more. (Untapped Cities)
The latest step in a neighbor-feud in Kew Gardens is a bloody splattered mannequin who seems to be daring neighbors to call 311 against it. A truly amazing amount of pettiness. (Gothamist)
The expansion of the city's speed camera program kicked off this week. The city will add 40-60 cameras a month until the number reaches 750 from the current 140. (Curbed)
"Slave Play," a look at race relations through the prism of the sexual hangups of three interracial couples, is coming to Broadway this spring and will run for 17 weeks. (NY Times)
The reunited The Misfits announced their first-ever show at Madison Square Garden, tickets are on sale next week. (BrooklynVegan)
How Darren Walker, a gay black man who grew up poor in Texas, came to be one of the best-connected people in New York City. And what that means for the future of philanthropy. (NY Times)
A photo gallery of Coney Island through the years. (amNY)
The Parks Department publicly apologized to the family of Robert Sommer, who was one of the fifteen cyclists killed by drivers this year, for removing his memorial ghost bike in Marine Park without notifying his family first. (Brooklyn Paper)
Would you pay $275 to be a guest on a podcast? Say what you want, but it's working for Uluç Ülgen, the host of mürmur, a podcast that is "part performance art, part social documentary, part mystical, and part comedy." If you don't want to pay the fee to appear, you can always subscribe on iTunes. (Bedford + Bowery)
A taxi jumped the curb and crashed into a Westville in Hell's Kitchen on Ninth Avenue Westville. Five people were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries and three declined medical attention. No reason was released for the driver's actions. (Gothamist)
The Washington Square Park "Die-In" to bring attention to the crisis created by the failures of the mayor's Vision Zero program has worked. Nearly every media outlet in the city has written about it, and it has now received the New York Times treatment. (NY Times)
More and more people in Brooklyn and Queens are choosing to renew their leases instead of moving to new apartments. Rants in both boroughs are up, but rents in Queens are down 4.2% since May. (The Real Deal)
Mia Simmons, the 20-year-old woman charged with manslaughter for the stabbing death of 30-year-old Latanya Watson, was defending herself according to her lawyer. Video footage shows the pair fighting on the platform and Simmons's lawyer claims Watson was the aggressor. (Gothamist)
An Ed Sheeran pop-up shop will be open on Wooster Street today from 3:06 through 9:06. Now you know where to go or where to avoid, depending who you are. (amNY)
Say hello to the Carrot Dog, the humane twist on the New York staple, which are now available ay by CHLOE. Delightful, disgusting, or both? (Gothamist)
Whoops, the Time Out Market in Dumbo was shut down by the Department of Health. The food hall is expected to be reopened shortly. (Eater)
The MTA's rules restrict the kinds of secondary jobs its workers can hold, which three dozen violated by moonlighting as Lyft /Uber drivers without agency permission. Five were fired. (Patch)
The governor won't sign a bill that would loosen restrictions on affidavit ballots that would also retroactively decide the contested Queens DA race. (Jackson Heights Post)
After the arrest of Tyresse Singleton for the alleged burning of rainbow flags outside the Alibi Lounge in Harlem, a new set of flags are proudly waving. (amNY)
A look inside the bribery and corruption of two men who are partially responsible for the current taxi medallion financial crisis. (NY Times)
Everyone has a friend who always chooses the most expensive restaurant possible and the bill for the eight of you looks like someone's rent instead of a bill for the meal. That's the inspiration behind the list of the best restaurants for affordable group dinners. (The Infatuation)
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