The Briefly for March 22, 2019 – The "Trapped on the Subway with the Mayor" Edition
If you're on the 3, 4, 6, or L trains, you're one of the lucky ones this weekend. This weekend's subway changes are here, and they ain't pretty. (6sqft)
Meet Rihanna Jones, the Bed-Stuy woman trying to make the afro hair emoji happen. (Patch)
What do you do if you're trapped on the Q train for an hour? Sing Jackson 5, of course. (@Empathetics)
What's worse than being trapped on the subway? Trapped on the subway and having to listen to the mayor talk. (Patch)
How unpopular is Mayor de Blasio? He's less popular than the president, and Trump's approval rating in New York is an embarrassing 28%. (Patch)
A seafood lover’s guide to New York’s newest restaurants. (Grub Street)
A sketchy interview with New Yorker cartoonist Mort Gerberg. (Gothamist)
Post-Finding Neverland, New York has decisions to make about how intertwined we want Michael Jackson through our city. (Gothamist)
The artist behind the East Village mural of Michael Jackson says he doesn't support taking the mural down. (The Villager)
CitiField's new food has a better chance of being a success than the Mets do this year. The new entrants to the lineup includes a pizza cupcake, dulcinea, dumplings from Destination Dumplings, sliders, hot dog sliders, Emmy Squared's colony pizza and Le Big Matt. (amNY)
13 places in Greenwich Village that witnessed history. (6sqft)
Macy's Flower Show opens this Sunday, with a Journey to Paradisios theme. Bring a coat, it'll be a cool 60 degrees inside all day to preserve the flowers. (amNY)
Vessel' is a temporary name for the 15-story stair sculpture in the Hudson Yards. The owners are soliciting ideas for a new name. (Gothamist)
The New York City version of the vintage Pace Picante salsa commercial is Grimaldi's being bought by a company from Arizona. (Eater)
NYPD Sgt. Howard Roth agreed to pay $6,000 after he tried to use his badge to get special treatment from the Taxi and Limousine Commission and then making threats when he didn't get it. (NY Post)
The racial disparities in Stuyvesant High School's admissions is only one part of a much bigger problem city-wide. (NY Times)
The Second Ave. Sagas podcast is back and the first episode of the revival is a 45-minute interview with City Council Speaker Corey Johnson. (Second Ave Sagas)
The city was recently sued under the Americans for Disabilities Act after 75% of the curbs in Lower Manhattan presented a variety of safety hazards. The city agreed to survey all 162,000 sidewalk curbs to make sure they are all accessible to those who are mobility and vision-impaired. (Gothamist)
12 coffee shops perfect for working. (Eater)
Every blue mailbox in the city will be revamped in hopes of preventing mail fishing. This means the end of sending anything other than letters due to the slot size. (NY Times)
Pot legalization was dropped from the state budget, officially ending hopes of legalization by April 1. Governor Cuomo is hoping there will an agreement about it by June. (CNN)
"Saw an illegal dirtbike doing a wheelie thru the hood aka the official start of Spring" (@desusnice)
A sheep was found tied to a tree in Coney Island Creek Park late Thursday night. This farm animals getting loose situation is baaad. (NY Post)
Real estate agents twist the truth more than a short, insecure guy on OK Cupid. What does "great bones" mean, anyway? (NY Times)
If you've got the money (and space), this 8,000+ VHS tape collection of over forty years of boxing matches collected by a classical pianist that lived in a 137th St apartment could be yours. (NY Times)
17 great chicken sandwiches that aren't from Chick-Fil-A. (Grub Street)
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