The Briefly for October 23 - 24, 2020 – The "2,400 Subway Cars on the Ocean Floor" Friday Edition
Today - Low: 61˚ High: 66˚
Mostly cloudy throughout the day.
This weekend - Low: 46˚ High: 70˚
If you need some fresh hell to wade through, there's the Giuliani story coming out of the new Borat movie. Never in my life did I want to be reading this much analysis if Rudy Giuliani was touching his dick or not, but here we are. (Bill Pearis for BrooklynVegan) The attorney behind the lawsuit trying to shut down the temporary homeless shelter on the Upper West Side, Randy Mastro, had his townhouse vandalized. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. (Mike Mishkin for I Love the Upper West Side) Video: What do you call 2,400 subway cars at the bottom of the ocean? A good start! Just kidding. Let's ask a marine biologist. (Matt Coneybeare for Viewing NYC) What the hell is going on at city hall that they've missed hundreds of deadlines to provide statistical reports? Name a department and they've blown a deadline. (Claudia Irizarry Apone for The City) Among the list of things the city hasn't reported on? School attendance data. You might say that they're... absent. (Christina Veiga for Chalkbeat) Photos: New York City's most impressive Halloween decorated house. (Ben Yakas for Gothamist) The time for baking artisanal bread is over. Welcome to the era of funfetti cake. (Rachel Sugar for Grub Street) Apartment Porn: Susan Sarandon's Chelsea duplex sold for $7.9 million. That's a lot of ping pong money. (Dana Schulz for 6sqft) Nothing to see here, just NYPD officers Kyle Erickson and Elmer Pastran caught on video planting pot on someone during a traffic stop. They've been caught doing it before too. The Staten Island DA says he sees no criminal activity. (George Joseph for Gothamist) An elderly woman in the Seward Park Co-op on the Lower East Side had been living with her husband’s rotting corpse for the last two weeks. 2020. (Elie Z. Perler for Bowery Boogie) The MTA has released a new nearly real-time subway map. While the animations are cool and having it be "real time" is cool, "How real is real-time? You're still getting some train data minutes after it comes in." (Christopher Bonanos for Curbed) Travel isn't banned, but the governor thinks you shouldn't be going to Connecticut or New Jersey right now. (Nick Reisman for NY1) New Jersey appears to be headed towards a second Covid-19 wave. (Karen Yi for Gothamist) Just in case the city's new Covid-19 restrictions weren't confusing enough, the state has instituted a new microcluster strategy. At this point, trying to round up how this works is beyond this email. (Jesse McKinley and J. David Goodman for NY Times) Check the map, enter your address to check your zone. (Arcgis) Nothing to see here, just a prisoner who escaped police custody Thursday morning outside Harlem Hospital. (Nick Garber for Patch) Go on a hike without needing a car. (Adam Nichols for Patch) Environmentalists stormed the headquarters of National Grid in Downtown Brooklyn Thursday calling for state ownership over the local power grid. (Kevin Duggan for Brooklyn Paper) 10 local illustrators on how New Yorkers feel about the upcoming election. I just want it to be over already. (Collier Sutter for Time Out) New York City is suing the federal government over the whole "Anarchist Jurisdiction" thing. (Matt Troutman for Patch) Millions of Republican dollars are flowing into Staten Island in an attempt to push out freshman Congressperson Max Rose in support of his Republican opponent Nicole Malliotakis. (Clifford Michel for The City) Photos: The Village Halloween parade is canceled, so this photo gallery set might be your way to enjoy Halloween in the Village. (Tequila Minsky for amNewYork Metro) 24 percent of the city's subway and bus workers have had Covid-19. (Devin Gannon for 6sqft) Keep your eyes peeled for these @WildCityNYC flyers strewn about the city. Learn things like which birds are "FAST AS F*CK" or what famous hot duck is currently "MISSING" or who the real "NEW YORK GIANTS" are. (Michelle Young for Untapped New York) A Manhattan “milestone” has been reached: Median rents fell below $3,000. (Stefanos Chen for NY Times) Photos: Check out the world's largest pumpkins at the New York Botanical Garden. (Collier Sutter for Time Out) 29 top Vietnamese restaurants in NYC. (Robert Sietsema for Eater)