The Briefly for October 19, 2018 – The "Tompkins Square Park Dog Parade is Back!" Edition
This weekend's subway changes are...complicated.
The Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade has risen from the dead like a Central Park zombie raccoon! The parade will be hosted by ESPN's Katie Nolan and held on October 28. (amNY)
What's your opinion of Marc Molinaro? If you're a voter, there's a 48% chance you don't have one. (Politico)
What would Central Park look like if the proposal by John J. Rink won the design contest? Pretty trippy according to these new renderings of his design. (Viewing NYC)
The Clark Street subway station is a "imminent public safety threat" according to Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. The three 23-year-old elevators that service the platform are the only way to get up the ten flights to the street. (Gothamist)
If you insist on bringing your tree on the subway, please do so during non-rush hours.
A good reminder about the laws about heat now that it's cold. From October 1 to May 31 from 6 am to 10 pm, if it’s below 55° F outside, your landlord must keep the building at least 68° F inside. At night, from 10 pm to 6 am, the building must be at least 62° F inside. If you want to file a complaint against your building, you can call 311 or file a complaint online. (Bklyner)
MoviePass is under investigation from the New York Attorney General's office that it misled investors. This won't get your unlimited movie tickets back, but it might make you feel better to see them lose a court case. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
Will the 2018 "blue wave" overtake Staten Island's NYC GOP alcove or will it hit a red wall? Republican Dan Donovan hopes to hold back Democrat Max Rose and remain NYC's sole GOP congressperson. (Gothamist)
Breathe a sigh of release, peak bedbug season is behind us. (Gothamist)
Mayor de Blasio's Chief Democracy Officer Ayirini Fonseca-Sabune remains in hot water with the Board of Elections over a confusing elections mailer to 400,000 city voters that cost $200,000. Whoops. (NY Post)
There's a measles outbreak in Williamsburg's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community due to unvaccinated children. An investigation into the outbreak and an attempt to contain it has had a direct cost of almost $400,000. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
The Mayor denies that he lied about his public comments that underplayed the number of children exposed to lead. The mayor's current excuse is that "the federal stand's changed over time," which is a lot like his story about this issue. (NY Post)
Known jerk and leader of the SPLC designated hate group Gavin McInnes is delinquent on his taxes in New York.
The NYCHA will hire two private companies to help the 41 NYCHA housing complexes maintain heat this winter. Last year more than 80% of apartments (323,000 people) went without heat for an average of 48 hours at a time. This week 4,000 NYCHA tenants are enduring a heat and hot-water outage. (Politico)
A security guard was caught hiding his phone in an NYPD women's bathroom in Brooklyn. Pedro Rodriguez Sanchez was arrested for unlawful surveillance in the second degree. (NY Post)
Marty Markowitz once dreamed of having an Apple Store in Brooklyn, and that dream was realized in 2016. Two years later Apple is set to announce something new at BAM (probably a new iPad and maybe new computers) on October 30. (Daring Fireball)
The Met and the Brooklyn Museum will no longer use Saudi money for programs on Middle Eastern art that had been supported by groups tied tot he Saudi government. (NY Times)
A Trump "Pee on Me" statue has found its way to Manhattan.
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