The Briefly for November 12, 2018 – The "Your Shawarma Cart Has A C Rating" Edition
What week is complete without being unable to get around at night? No overnight L or 3 trains, changes to the Q, E, 1, 2, and D lines. (Subway Changes)
Get ready for your favorite street meat cart to have a health department grade. (NY Post)
Live-shooter trainings inside synagogues. Armed guards inside churches. This is what NYC's religious services look like in 2018. (NY Post)
The 72-foot-tall Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has taken her place at 30 Rock. You can visit Shelby before she gets lit up on November 28th at 7pm. (NY Post)
The RFK Human Rights Foundation's mass bail out is shining light on the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice and Department of Corrections. Should a man who was caught on video assaulting a guard have been allowed bail one week after the incident? (NY Post)
Does New York's blue wave mean that the golden era of charter schools is over? (NY Times)
High school students organized a walkout in protest of a Facebook-backed curriculum. After a week of self-teaching, each student gets somewhere between 10 and 15 minutes of "mentoring." (NY Post)
How is it possible that Ice-T has never eaten a bagel in his life? (Gothamist)
Having completely fixed the subways and buses, the MTA Chairman Joe Lhota has resigned. (Streetsblog)
The city's best ice skating rinks. (Curbed)
People struggling to cross the street during the NYC Marathon is exactly what you need on Monday morning. (Gothamist)
Michael J. Ryan, the man in charge of last week's election, on what went right and what went wrong. (Gothamist)
If Seoul and San Francisco can get it right, why can't the city's composting program get off the ground? (NY Times)
Even the L train can't stop Williamsburg's development boom. Take a look at the map. (Curbed)
Dr Kurt Salzinger, an 89-year-old scholar who escaped the Nazis in Austria, died after being shoved onto the 3 train's subway tracks in Penn Station. (NY Times)
The city's 40 best brunches. (Eater)
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