The Briefly for June 25, 2018 – Blackface MTA Supervisor Suspended, The Free Store on Ludlow, LGBT Deadlock, and More
Sunset in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
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There has been no substantive LGBT legislation in New York State since 2011. State Senator Brad Hoylman came forward in 2016 to point out that all LGBT bills are "dead on arrival" due to the Independent Democratic Conference. That includes bills put forward by Hoylman like surrogacy, ending the gay/trans panic defense, restoring benefits for gay veterans improving HIV-related services, and more.
Park Slope's Ninth Street is getting updated with a new design that includes pedestrian safety features and protected bike lanes after the March 5 death of two children in a car crash.
The 30th Avenue and 36th Avenue N/W stations in Astoria are open after eight months of esthetic renovations.
Suraj Patel, who is running for Congress in NY-13 against incumbent Carolyn Maloney, is catfishing people on Tinder and in other apps to try to gain support. That's creepy, dude.
Cynthia Nixon has had some strong takes, but calling ICE a "terrorist organization" is her hottest take.
Filming Around Town: Spike Lee and Netflix's She’s Gotta Have It is at Spring and Wooster, Once Upon A Time in Staten Island, starring Naomi Watts, is at Bay Ridge Ave in Brooklyn, and The Kitchen, starring Melissa McCarthy, is down at Avenue U and 12th St in Brooklyn.
The city's first "virtual" food hall is opening in Flatiron. No one knows what that means.
A little league baseball game in the East Village was delayed 45 minutes because a red-tailed hawk was eating a pigeon on the field's backstop.
Governor Cuomo directed the state's Health Department to prevent health insurance companies from discriminating against transgendered New Yorkers to prevent President Trump from taking away their rights.
A high-ranking MTA employee was promoted despite complaints that he showed up to a party in blackface. Metro-North supervisor Richard Ranallo is suspended indefinitely, but he's still being paid his $246,255 salary.
The previously closed sections of Rockaway Beach are reopening on June 30 on a trial basis.
The city's top drug prosecutor seems to be on the wrong side of the evidence when it comes to the city's proposed safe injection sites. The city had over 1,400 deaths from overdoses in the last two years.
The free store on Ludlow is about 12 years old and still going strong.
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