The Briefly for September 24, 2019 – The "Better Off Without the City's Attention" Edition
Everyone’s got a to-do list for the mayor, here’s another list of eight issues for him to deal with. (Curbed)
Congratulations are in order to Mayor de Blasio. The mayor announced a plan to speed up the city's buses 25% and buses are running slower than this time last year. Perfection. (Patch)
Philly pizza? Yup, Philly favorite Pizzeria Beddia Will have one night in the big city on October 1. (Grub Street)
The Oculus’s roof is supposed to open on 9/11 annually, but this year it remained shut due to a leak which was caused by last year’s opening and closing. It’ll cost an additional $200,000 to fix the leak. (Curbed)
The Friars Club made the celebrity roast a common occurrence, for better or worse. Here are ten secrets of the Friars Club. (Untapped Cities)
Video: A striking video about artists and advocates' push to make Hart Island, New York City's public cemetery, publicly accessible. (Untapped Cities)
The city was barely ready when the new "Raise the Age" law removed 16-year-olds from the normal court system and placed them in Family Court or "Youth Part" (which is a real part of the justice system). On October 1, 17-year-olds will be moved into these parts of the system and there are doubts the courts will be able to handle it. (The City)
National Grid has frozen 2,600 applications for gas hookups in its temper tantrum over Governor Cuomo's refusal to add a new gas pipeline to Rockaway Beach, leaving 20,000 apartments and businesses without gas. (Gothamist)
Peak fall foliage will hit the city mid-October. (6sqft)
The former Slave Theater in Bed-Stuy will become a ten-story building with residential "co-living," hotel rooms and community space. (6sqft)
An argument that Riverside Park is the lowkey best park in the city. (Gothamist)
How much do you trust the NYPD on a scale from 1-10? According to polls, it's at a 6.6 for the month of August. (amNY)
City Hall will reveal a plan this week for how the NYPD will deal with mentally ill New Yorkers. Over the last decade, annual calls to 911 about "emotionally disturbed people" have doubled from 97,000 to over 180,000. (The City)
The NYPD list a state Supreme Court case and after a yearlong battle will have to reveal fare evasion data, which advocates say will reveal the NYPD's racist policing policies. (Gothamist)
Everyone has the right to be stupid, even the people stockpiling vape juice ahead of an eventual ban. (Gothamist)
If the biggest problem you have with Roberta’s is that you don't want to go all the way to Bushwick for pizza, you're in luck. Roberta's will be opening a Manhattan outpost in the spring. (Eater)
A replica of Josef Albers's “Manhattan” is back at 200 Park Avenue. The original was iconic but also hid a deadly secret behind its Formica panels, asbestos. IT was removed in 2000. (NY Times)
Watch Greta Thunberg's address to the United Nations Climate Action Summit. (Gothamist)
Meet Katherine Walsh, who will challenge incumbent Assemblymember Félix Ortiz's State Assembly seat representing Sunset Park and Red Hook with a focus on the environment. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
When Wayne Algenio became the king of San Gennaro by eating 38 cannoli and 54 zeppoli in six minutes, each a week apart, the last thing he was thinking about was the 10,000 calories he just consumed. Here's a closer look at what it takes to be a king. (Bedford + Bowery)