The Briefly for March 5, 2019 – The "Someday You'll Find It, The Pizza-Subway Connection" Edition
The NYPD is rolling out a five-point plan to fight the recent surge in murders across the city. Stronger gun protections, expanding the Ceasefire anti-gang initiative, helping parolees, and intensive investigations when guns are used in domestic violence. (amNY)
300,00 cubic yards of sand are headed to fight the erosion that's been threatening the Rockaways and kept a portion of the beach closed last summer. (amNY)
The pizza principle/pizza-subway connection is the single greatest economic theory in history. Does it still hold up in the age of gourmet pizza while the MTA is holding the cost of a subway ride at $2.75? (6sqft)
Ben's Cookies from the U.K., Ole & Steen from Denmark, Tim Ho Wan and TTK Fried Chicken from Taiwan, and Pelicana Friend Chicken from South Korea make up only a portion of the international chains that have chosen New York City as their launching pad into the United States. (amNY)
Six spots for pączki to celebrate a belated Tłusty Czwartek. (Gothamist)
What's the richest neighborhood in the city? (NY Post)
Can you spell "beautiful?" Statistically speaking, we can't. (Viewing NYC)
All across the city parents woke up and asked themselves "Whose stupid idea was it to close the schools today?" (NY Times)
Talking shit about snow days is a long standing city tradition. (Gothamist)
Remember when the "heat day" was the new "snow day"? (NY Times)
10 places to get your fill of Irish culture ahead of St. Patrick's Day. (6sqft)
Racist comments and right wing politics aren't enough to stop Morrisey from descending on New York in May to do a weeklong residency on Broadway. (Gothamist)
Some subway newsstands will be replaced by vending machines. Good thing the subways are so clean. It would be a shame to see what would happen to a vending machine down there. (Curbed)
An MTA Q33 bus fatally struck a pedestrian early Monday in Jackson Heights, dragging him for several feet before the 55-year-old driver realized there was a man caught up in the wheels. The driver was not charged. (NY Post)
National September 11 Memorial & Museum maintenance worker Jerry Mena's job is to polish and clean the engraved names on the panels above the memorial's reflecting pools. (amNY)
Is it time to change the city's sirens? (Gothamist)
The city council is demanding answers why the Department of Health banned CBD in the city. (NY Post)
Should the city takeover the transit system? City Council Speaker Corey Johnson is expected to unveil a roadmap to exactly that during his state of the city address today. (Streetsblog)
22 stellar sit-down pizzerias. (Eater)
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