The Briefly for July 9, 2018 – The Subways are HOT, the L Gets An Elevator, We Ruined Lemonade Stands, and More
Schools Chancellor and head of the Department of Education and NYC Public Schools Richard A. Carranza wrote an op-ed for Streetsblog about the importance of speed cameras near schools.
Congratulations New Yorkers! We did it! Children's lemonade stands require a temporary food serve establishment permit according to Carolina Rodríguez, a spokeswoman from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
The best part of the video of this idiot subway surfing is the guy who doesn't even look the entire time.
57th Street F Station is closing today and will remain closed through December for a renovation. The 167th Street and 174-175th Street B/D stations will close August 27th for renovations.
A lawsuit aimed at stopping the L train shutdown was partially settled with the addition of elevators for the Sixth Avenue L stop, which will also make the 14th Street 1/2/3 stop accessible to the disabled.
TrueBlueNY has a target on IDC aligned State Senator Tony Avella. They're collecting signatures for former city Comptroller John Liu. Liu's run for mayor in 2013 was cut short with a fundraising scandal focused on his former campaign treasurer.
Watch the corpse flower bloom and collapse at the New York Botanical Garden, stink free.
Filming Around Town: Netflix and Marvel's Jessica Jones is at 12th and 2nd, The Sun Is Also A Star is at 30th and 5th, and The Deuce, starring James Franco, is at 46th and 3rd.
Council Member Mark Gjonaj introduced a bill to help micro-businesses in the city (under ten employees). Micro-businesses account for 80% of all jobs created in the city. Mark Gjonaj also blamed the two people who were killed by Sanitation Salvage for their own deaths. Sanitation Salvage is a private garbage company that Gjonaj collected almost $10,000 from since 2012.
Did MoMA PS1 discriminate against Nikki Columbus because she was pregnant? The museum says she turned down a job offer, but her story is vastly different.
The oldest restaurants in the city.
Are you a snitch? The city is paying cash bounties for ratting out idling commercial trucks and buses for more than three minutes (or one minute in a school zone).
If you think your commute is stupid, please meet Google engineer Tommy Lutz. Tommy rows to work across the Hudson from New Jersey to Manhattan.
Can you legally flip off a cop? A court will decide after a New Jersey man was arrested for flipping off some Times Square cops.
Complaints about subway cars without AC doubled from last year to this year. Chairman Joe Lhota vowed to "make sure there are no hot cars," which would indicate that Joe Lhota is a damn liar.
How is this even possible? Another Christmas tree was trashed THIS WEEK in the East Village.
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