The Briefly for November 7, 2019 – The "Lubing Up the Cube in Astor Place" Edition
The sweet spot for rent in the city might be $2,700 and four other things you need to know about the city's real estate market. (StreetEasy)
The life, death, and rebirth of the Orchard Street pedestrian mall, the only street in the city that closes on Sundays to become a pedestrian mall. (Bowery Boogie)
A look at how gentrification has changed Fort Greene. (NY Times)
How does the cube in Astor Place stay able to spin? It gets lubed. (EV Grieve)
Commercial rent control may be how the city fights the retail vacancy crisis. (Gothamist)
Death certificates for overdoses in New York state must state a type of opioid thanks to a bill signed into law by Governor Cuomo on Tuesday. (amNewYork)
“The Seated IV” from Wangechi Mutu, which sits outside the Met as part of the facade, will be on display until June, instead of coming to an end in January. (NY Times)
Gothamist/WNYC has been fighting to get the secret list that each of the five borough District Attorneys maintains of cops who have been accused of dishonesty. Thanks to a successful Freedom of Information request, a three-page list of liar cops from the Brooklyn DA's office was released on Wednesday. (Gothamist)
Who wants to live in Turtle Bay or Midtown? That question might be harder to answer than you think. Of the entire city, those are the two neighborhoods with the most real estate price drops in October. (amNewYork)
The best restaurants in Inwood. (The Infatuation)
Not much of the city voted on Tuesday. Only 13.9% of registered voters actually voted. While early voting was supposed to make voting easier, the locations were limited to 33 across the entire city. The mayor is hoping to increase that number to 100 for the 2020 election. (amNewYork)
James O'Neill is leaving his commissionership with the NYPD for a security job at Visa. (Patch)
The best coffee shop in the USA is Sey Coffee on Grattan Street in Bushwick, according to Food & Wine magazine. (Patch)
The definitive guide to the Hudson Yards development boom. (Curbed)
A $50 million triplex penthouse on Central Park West, once belonging to Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, can be yours if you've got $50 million lying around. (StreetEasy)
The president will return to the city that hates him to kick off Monday's Veteran's Day parade in Manhattan. This just went from parade to shit show. (amNewYork)
Where to go for affogato, the city's newest must-try dessert, vanilla gelato with espresso poured over it. (Eater)
The Long Island City Clock Tower is going to go through a restoration that will start and end next year. (LIC Post)
120,000 pounds of clothes were collected for donation at the start of the NYC Marathon, with those clothes going to Goodwill. Since 2012 a million pounds have been collected and donated. (amNewYork)
Once the L train's signal updates are complete, the M train is the next line to be upgraded and inconvenienced by late-night service disruptions while they're being installed. (amNewYork)
Billy Eichner remains the only person I want one of the hundreds that call Met Life Stadium home. (Gothamist)
The best restaurants in Sunnyside and Woodside. (Grub Street)