The Briefly for September 26, 2019 – The "Nightmare NIMBY Neighborhood" Edition
The Working Families Party is accusing Governor Cuomo of creating a conspiracy to destroy them for daring to run Cynthia Nixon against him in his last primary. (NY Times)
Andrew Cuomo and his longtime girlfriend Sandra Lee have the world’s largest display of LEGO art” with classics like Michaelangelo's David, Degas's Whistler's Mother, Munch's The Scream and Van Gogh's Starry Night interpreted in LEGO starting this weekend at the New York Hall of Science. (Time Out)
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and New York State Attorney General Letitia James sued ICE over the arrests that have taken place outside of the city's courthouses. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
Screaming, propaganda, shoving, conspiracy theories about the Department of Transportation, and accusations of taking money from pedophiles, just another day in the NIMBY-nightmare neighborhood of Park Slope. (Streetsblog)
A peek inside Michael Cera's new $2.4 million Bed-Stuy home. (Mansion Global)
93% of people arrested for marijuana possession in NYC are black and Latino, but white New Yorkers are twice as likely to have smoked marijuana than anyone else. (Patch)
Operation DUMBO Drop 2019 is a go. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
We are a month away from early voting in this year's elections, so it's time to start educating yourself about the five ballot questions. (Gotham Gazette)
The $51.4 billion MTA Capital Plan for 2020 - 2024 was unanimously approved by the MTA's board and has the support of Mayor de Blasio, with a few strings attached. The city is expected to pay $3 billion towards the plan, but during the current 2015-2019 plan the city was expected to pay $2.66 billion, but only paid $790 million. (Streetsblog)
Facebook is eyeing 740,000 square feet of office space at the the midtown post office. (6sqft)
Photos: Inside a 19th-century paint factory, before it becomes luxury loft apartments. (Untapped Cities)
A gold coffin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be taken back to Egypt after the realization that it had been stolen. (Patch)
If you were at Paul Simon's last show in Queens, I have some news for you. He'll be part of Live From Here with Chris Thile on October 26. (Brooklyn Vegan)
Photos: Inside Long Island City's new public library. (6sqft)
City schools were all set to have a one day work week this year on December 23, but logic has prevailed and students and teachers will get that day off as well, extending winter break from December 21 through January 2. (Patch)
If you're a big fan of waiting in long lines to get food, Chinese rice noodle roll and congee restaurant Yin Ji Chang Fen has opened an outpost on Bayard St. (Gothamist)
If you define corruption as an illegal act that benefits an individual without punishment because of their office or position, the Brooklyn Borough President's office is corrupt for their agreement with the Parks Department that allows officials to park wherever they feel in the park that surrounds Borough Hall without consequence. (The City)
Mapping the development boom transforming Crown Heights. (Curbed)
Hart Island's been in the news a lot lately, today's update is that there is a concern that it is running out of space as the city's public burial grounds. Since the Civil War, over a million people have been buried there and in eight to ten years the city needs to find a new place to bury its dead. (6sqft)
As expected, the vape flavor ban is being challenged in court. (amNY)
The city's grand plans to update and future-proof the Gowanus Canal cleanup have been killed by the EPA. (6sqft)
Enjoy 10 hours in Gowanus (but not in the Gowanus) with this guide. (Brooklyn Based)
It is a misdemeanor under the city's Right of Way law to fail to yield to pedestrians or cyclists while making a turn after a state appeals court upheld the law as constitutional. (Gothamist)