The Briefly for May 6, 2019 – The "Oh No, He's Actually Going to Run for President, Isn't He" Edition
This week's late night subway changes and diversions are minimally awful. (Subway Changes)
A review of Decade of Fire, playing at the Metrograph, which tackles the topic of the burning of the Bronx in the 70s and the organizations that rallied to rebuild when no one else would. (Curbed)
Oh god. He's actually going to run for President, isn't he? (Splinter)
How to spend 12 hours on Governors Island. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
Jagged Little Pill, which may actually be a bad album, is coming to Broadway on November 3 at the Broadhurst Theatre. (Brooklyn Vegan)
The 10 oldest libraries in the city and their secret histories. (Untapped Cities)
Some teens threw a raucous party in the basement of an NYCHA development. The party ended when someone poured an acid-like liquid onto them from above. (NY Times)
Some people are happy with laundry machines in their building. Others get a million dollar yacht, who Rolls-Royces, a Lamborghini, a Hamptons house rental for a summer, and courtside Nets season tickets. Yes, all of those amenities are for one apartment. Welcome to the wildest luxuries for city homes. (Patch)
RIP Lew Fidler. Fidler was a Brooklyn politician, who was a champion for homeless youth in the city council, the environment, and LGBTQ youth. (Politico)
The top twelve brunch spots in the city. Let this serve as a reminder if you want to go anywhere for brunch this weekend. Mother's Day approaches. (Patch)
Say hello to the city's newest restaurants and bars. (amNY)
Scenes from the Union Square cannabis parade and rally from Saturday. (EV Grieve)
It took six years, but the Office of Emergency Management has unveiled lower Manhattan's solution against a Hurricane Sandy-like storm has arrived. They'll use... sandbags. Really big sandbags. This took six years. (NY Times)
Margaritaville is a state of mind, but it's also going to be a resort on the corner of 40th and Seventh Ave. (New York YIMBY)
Katz's has survived New York since 1888 and New Yorkers have survived Katz's enormous sandwiches for just as long. I'll have what she's having. (Food Insider)
Mark your calendars, November 9 will be Wu-Tang Clan Day, and to celebrate you'll be able to go to the corner of Targee Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in Staten Island, which is the Wu-Tang Clan District as of this weekend. (The Root)
RIP Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, who died over the weekend due to Parkinson's disease complications. Brown was the Queens District Attorney for nearly thirty years and had been on the judiciary since 1973, who had been on a leave of absence from the job since March. (QNS)
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, whose decisions are helping destroy the Amazon and whose racism, homophobia and bigotry tops any racist uncle you've got on Facebook, will skip the NYC gala in his honor after it had become clear that New Yorkers will tolerate a lot of punishment, but hosting him is a step too far. (NY Times)
Breathe easy, literally, if you take the L train, the first dust report is in and the concentration of silica dust is well below the benchmarks for dangerous exposure. (NY Times)
BreakfastClub founder and author of BREAKFAST: The Cookbook shares her favorite breakfasts in the city. (Time Out)
Where to have a graduation lunch or dinner. (The Infatuation)
It seems that Mayor de Blasio's Vision Zero program has begun to fail. (amNY)
Youfeng Xu was killed crossing Seventh Avenue with the light in Sunset Park, the person behind the wheel of the truck was charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care. (Streetsblog)
A three-year-old boy was killed while in a crosswalk in front of a stop sign by a van in Bath Beach last week on a street that the city has known to be dangerous for at least five years. The driver blamed the child's death on his mother. (Gothamist)
Candy. Where do you get it? Anywhere? Wrong. You get it at Economy Candy. (ABC 7 NY)
Senior citizens outnumber millennials when it comes to renting apartments. (NY Times)
An ice cream parlor for humans and dogs. Yes, it's in Bushwick, how did you know? (Bushwick Daily)
Here's how New York's proposed voter affiliation deadline change could help Bernie Sanders in the 2020 presidential election. (Gothamist)
35 outstanding tacos in NYC. (Eater)
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