The Briefly for July 25, 2018 – No One Can Prevent Subway Fires, The Slowest Bus in the City, and More

Today is the day that the State Senate failed us and the speed cameras in school zones will be shut down. Nothing has shown the broken state of Albany quite like this has. Speaking of the State Senate, members of the IDC have to refund up to $1.4 million in campaign contributions after a judge ruled their fundraising alliance with the Independence Party was illegal.

Pablo Villavicencio Calderon, the pizza-deliveryman who was detained at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, was freed on Tuesday.

The M42 is the slowest bus in the city, with a brisk average speed of 3.2 mph across 42nd St.

Roosevelt Island's water fountains contain unacceptable levels of bacteria and iron.

The MTA's plan to stop subway fires is failing.

Governor Cuomo wanted the pylons of the Brooklyn-Battery and Queens-Midtown tunnels to match is $20-$30 million blue and yellow tiles. Not only did they cost $253K extra, they may also be illegal.

The fence surrounding the fountain in Bowling Green dates back to 1771.

Someone left a box marked "American Fascism" outside Paul Manafort's Brooklyn Brownstone.

Your weather report: The weather will remain shitty for the rest of the week.

Citi Bike and JUMP Bikes are filling the bike void in the Bronx after Ofo backed out of the city's dockless bikeshare pilot program.

These are the elected officials who take campaign contributions from private trash hauling companies. Private trash haulers killed at least 16 people since 2012, including two deaths from Sanitation Salvage in six months. At the top of the list is Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

Filming around town: Netflix and Marvel's Jessica Jones is at E 92nd and Park, God Friended Me w/Joe Morton is at W 32nd and 7th, Madam Secretary w/Tea Leoni is at 65th and Park, The Deuce w/Maggie Gyllenhaal is at W 54th and 6th, Gotham is at Flatbush and Pacific in Brooklyn, Marvel and Netflix's The Punisher is at 75th Ave and Main St in Kew Garden Hills, and Law and Order: SVU is around Atlantic Ave and Hicks St in Brooklyn.

The guide to living on the Bronx's Grand Concourse, from Brick Underground.

The Gowanus Canal cleanup doesn't start until 2020.

Mayor de Blasio is pleading ignorance in a federal lawsuit against the city for policies in affordable housing lotteries that reinforce residential segregation.

Kristina Newman-Scott is BRIC's new president. The most well known BRIC project is the Celebrate Brooklyn festival.

Photos from behind the scenes at the New York Stock Exchange.