The Briefly for November 27 2018 – The "Monument to NYC's UFO Abduction of '77" Edition
The city's Third Party Transfer program allows the city to foreclose on properties with unpaid water bills, debt and disrepair and sell those to developers for $1 plus $8,750 per unit. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams says the program may be tainted with fraud. (The Real Deal)
The 7 train's brand new signals came online for Monday's commute. Less than an hour later? Delays. The MTA will never stop being the MTA. (NY Post)
Have you seen the monument to the New York harbor UFO abduction in the summer of 77? (Gothamist)
As bad as the G train might get, it's gonna get much worse at Greenpoint Ave. (Free Williamsburg)
Shot in the head, and expected to survive. A worker in a Queens Duane Read is the luckiest person in New York City. (NY Post)
The Rockefeller Christmas Tree is being lit on Wednesday, which means street closures, slow pedestrians, and thousands of people being miserable in the holiday spirit together. (Curbed)
Winterfest Brooklyn’s organizers are promising a change after the first weekend, before it becomes a frosty Fyre Festival. (Bklyner)
After a string of alleged burglaries, robberies, and break-ins targeted at Jewish institutions, a Dyker Heights man could face decades in prison. (Brooklyn Paper)
Inside Industry City's new Japan Village food hall. (Eater)
Red Hook is getting a little more pedestrian friendly with new crosswalks along Columbia Street. (Brooklyn Paper)
Tonight is the last night of the Night Mayor's listing tour. (EV Grieve)
The burned body found at a Staten Island elementary school was 30-year-old Yelena Rabkina, a woman with a history of mental illness who lived 15 miles north of where her body was found. (NY Post)
The five "best" suburbs outside the city. No, these do not include the 18% of New Yorkers who think they live in a suburb. (6sqft)
"How was your Thanksgiving?" "You know, got into a fight with my 32-year-old brother, I stabbed him and then set our basement on fire and I was tased." (NY Post)
Here's where New Yorkers actually eat in Times Square. (Eater)
Meet the man who is walking every block in the city. (Bedford + Bowery)
Six months after Mayor de Blasio announced a safe-injection site pilot program, progress seems to have stalled. The culprit? The state. (Gothamist)
The Thanksgiving feast where guests ate off naked bodies. Yes, it was in Bushwick. (Bushwick Daily)
How to survive alternate side parking without going all Alec Baldwin on your neighbors. (Bedford + Bowery)
10 secrets from inside the Masonic Hall and Grand Lodge in Chelsea. (Untapped Cities)
The NY Post is boasting about bullying the NYPD into removing a small homeless encampment on 41st St in Times Square.
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