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The Briefly for September 16, 2019 – The "JUUL Miss Me When I'm Gone" Edition
It's a short list of subways that will be disrupted late nights this week. Even still, if you're on the 1, 4, A, E, or R trains, you'll want to check before you make late-night plans. (Subway Weekender)
It's possible that the Cuomo-Byford feud may be softening. (Politico)
The city will allow bicyclists to ride past the United Nations during the General Assembly, a departure from previous years. It still won't be easy. Each bicyclist will have to pass a security checkpoint before proceeding. (Streetsblog)
The governor announced the state will ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes with an emergency ruling. (Politico)
The city will be showing off some early design concepts for the Sunnyside Yards. (Sunnyside Post)
The city is calling its renovation of Fort Greene "routine work" to avoid doing a full environmental review. The Sierra Club is leading a lawsuit against the city for the classification and lack of review. (Patch)
The photos of Battery Park as a wheat field are weird. In 1982 there were two acres of wheat planted as an art installation which also yielded a thousand pounds of wheat. (Untapped Cities)
The MTA was headed for a $392 million budget gap in 2020, but that was before the MTA decided to hire 500 additional police officers. (Politico)
The MTA's on-time performance rate hit 84% last month from 68% the previous August. The future of the MTA is all in the 2020-2024 capital plan, which hasn't been made public and will be voted on on October 1. (6sqft)
Where to have a last-minute fancy dinner. (The Infatuation)
“I’m sad to know that the hero of 9/11 has become a liar.” Is anyone surprised that Rudy Giuliani's divorce is a huge mess? (Splinter)
Luxury apartments are changing the city's skyline, but they aren't selling. 25% of the luxury apartments built since 2013 have never been sold. (Gothamist)
Speaking of luxury apartments, there will be 700 new luxury apartments will be built in Dumbo as part of a development on a three-acre parking lot. (NY Times)
A class-action lawsuit over a lack of wine coolers in luxury apartments in Hudson Square. (Patch)
Here are this week's restaurants ordered closed by the Department of Health. No one hit over 100 points, but the Eataly kiosks in Flatiron had the highest violation score. (Patch)
The mayor is fighting back against allegations that his sudden embrace of restricting hotel development in the city has something to do with a presidential endorsement from the Hotel Trades Council union. (Politico)
Would you love to brunch at the new TWA Hotel but don't want to travel like a peasant to get there? Well, now you can take a private helicopter to brunch from lower Manhattan. (Time Out)
After a few weeks of confusion, the state has clarified that landlords and brokers are both going to be held to the new $20 application fee limit. Before the ruling, agents were charging high fees because a landlord wasn't allowed to. (Gothamist)
A man with a sword was arrested at the observation deck of the Empire State Building. (amNY)
It's the kind of trash talk you need to see to believe. (@edenbrower)
Whoops, an NYPD school safety officer was arrested for possession of three pounds of marijuana. (SI Live)
Are you the person who bought a $10 million lotto ticket in the Bronx? (Welcome2TheBronx)
Sometimes trash is old food and mile-long CVS receipts. Sometimes it's 20,000 slides of fashion shows from the 1980s. (Jezebel)
22 places for a stellar meal in Soho. (Eater)