The Briefly for June 29, 2018 – The MTA Chief has Conflicts, Secluded Gardens, "GOOD MORNING," the Subways This Weekend, and More
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Get ready for the weekend with the weekly 6sqft roundup of just how screwed the subways are.
The MTA chairman, Joe Lhota, has side jobs that are conflicts of interest according to Common Cause NY. Lhota is a vice president on NYU Langone Hospital, which pays over $2.3 million annually, and a paid board member at Madison Square Garden.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is asking for anti-terror protections for high traffic areas like Eastern Parkway, the Coney Island Boardwalk, Prospect Park, Brooklyn Bridge Par and sections of Ocean Parkway.
The race for a new Attorney General is heating up between four frontrunners on the Democratic side.
If you’ve noticed someone at a subway station saying “good morning” and hated their friendliness, being nice to people is their job.
The city council is gunning for Airbnb with a new bill. The bill will require hosts to share their identities and addresses of their listings with the city's Office of Special Enforcement and provide more information about what is being rented.
Filming Around Town: Tell Me A Story, starring Kim Cattrall, is at E 94th and 2nd Ave, The Deuce is at W 122nd and Malcolm X Blvd, Otherhood, starring Angela Bassett, is on Hudson and Franklin, and John Wick 3 is at 45th and Madison.
As a result of his awful views on how to keep pedestrians safe and his blatant abuse of the city's parking laws, there is a 24-hour vigil protest outside of State Senator Marty Golden's office in Bay Ridge.
Kudos to Gothamist for thoroughly covering the last Department of Labor hearing about the minimum wage for tipped workers. The NY Aquarium's shark exhibit opens in Coney Island on Saturday.
Zoinks! It's about to be as hot as hell, so this guide to install a window unit air conditioner in your apartment may come in handy. An alternative? Date someone for their air conditioning.
The ten best secluded gardens in Manhattan, from Untapped Cities.
An elegy for the sublimely crappy Chambers Street subway station.
The last thing Richard Schilling expected to find in his garage was a 225-year-old gravestone.
Scott Rogowsky of HQ Trivia gets the New York Times Sunday routine treatment.