The Briefly for November 2, 2018 – The "Brooklyn Witches Are at it Again" Edition
This weekend's subway service doesn't have any major outages, but it doesn't mean that the random bits of train lines (No F between Church Ave and Coney Island, the G isn't running north of Nassau Ave, the A running on the F between W 4th and Jay St) are closed or doing some weird stuff. (Subway Stats)
Construction on the L train will be tough on the East Village, but the MTA has made a few concessions like switching the lighting from diesel to electric, stopping construction at 10pm instead of 11, and installing air quality sensors. (Town & Village)
Hex Kavanaugh 2: Electric Boogaloo. (Catland)
The city will spend $2 million to renovate Selma's House, an extension of the Louis Armstrong Museum in Corona. (Jackson Heights Post)
Q&A with State Senator Marty Golden. (Bklyner) Everyone hates Marty. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
Governor Cuomo no showed the League of Women Voters debate, as expected. (NY Post)
Knife confiscations are up by 20% in the city's schools. Yikes. (NY Post)
10 great places to eat vegan in Astoria. (We Heart Astoria)
Democrats added 158,000 new voters in the last six months, while Republicans added 1,435 new voters. Will this turn the tide on New York City's sorry level of voter participation? (NY Post)
The 14 best burgers in the city. (Gothamist)
The best spots to watch Sunday's NYC Marathon. (StreetEasy) Here's the marathon route.
After Mayor de Blasio bungled the one year memorial for the West Side Highway terror attack, he's blaming his staff for forgetting to read the names of the eight victims and forgetting to invite the victim's loved ones until the last minute. (NY Post)
Is the city ready for college dorm style "co-living?" (6sqft)
What's going to happen to Central Park's famous new Mandarin Duck? It'll be welcome to stay as long as it likes, but don't feed it break or pretzels. (Gothamist)
The Art Students League of New York's The Masters exhibit shows off 100 works from former students and teachers, including Norman Rockwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Ai Weiwei, and others.
A new pumpkin-impalement record was set by Jane Greengold! Stop by the corner of Kane Street and Strong Place in Cobble Hill to see all 224 impaled pumpkins while they rot. (Bedford + Bowery)
Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl during what she believed to be a job meeting in 2002. (Gothamist)
The city has had a troublesome increase in anti-Semitic incidents as of late. The latest is swastikas spray painted on 72nd St. (Gothamist) The NYPD is still searching for the suspect who spray painted swastikas on a Brooklyn Heights garage. (Bklyner)
The hottest restaurants in Brooklyn. (Eater)
Who's crazy enough to start a newspaper in 2018? Bklyner is.
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