The Briefly for Valentine's Day 2019 – The "Best Places to Cry in Public" Edition

We are less than two weeks away from the special election for Public Advocate. Of the 5.2 million registered voters in the city, less than one million are expected to turn out to vote. (Gotham Gazette)

The white supremacist who stabbed Tim Caughman to death in 2017 in hopes of starting a race war was sentenced to life in prison for murder as terrorism. (NY Times)

The Bronx saw over two billion dollars of real estate investment last year with over half of that in the South Bronx. (Welcome2TheBronx)

The city's best places to cry in public, mapped. (Curbed)

Multiple immigrants are suing ICE for violating their constitutional right and allowing their lawyers to effectively represent them. ICE has refused to bring jailed immigrants to court since last June, preferring to have them represented through video feeds plagued with technical problems. (Patch)

Walt Whitman, Brooklyn hipster. (Brokelyn)

Maybe the L train is cursed. An anti-Nazi sticker caused an entire train to be removed from service in the middle of Wednesday morning's commute, thanks to MTA policy. (Gothamist)

The oncoming L train construction will cause "on board crowding greater than anything ever experienced on the NYC subway system on a sustained basis," according to an internal MTA memo. Cursed! (Gothamist)

City Councilman Rafael Espinal is trying to ban plastic forks and knives. Bon appetit, take out eaters. (Eater)

Yeah, you can drink seltzer, but what if you could experience the feeling of drinking seltzer in a retail location? It might sound like nonsense, but once you see photos of Recess' (the seltzer company) pop-up space, you might understand. Maybe you won't. (Time Out)

The City Council is calling for the appointment of a special education “czar” to advocate and oversee the implementation of services to children with special needs, as parents are unaware of their rights within the school system. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

During the L train construction, trains will run once every twenty minutes from 8pm-5am on weekdays and all day on the weekends. The G train will have additional service, but the extra cars that were planned on each train will be scrapped. (Streetsblog)

If something goes wrong, blame a pigeon. Classic New York. (Gothamist)

An interactive map of all 1.4 million vehicle collisions since July of 2012. (Todd W. Schneider)

The Reckless Driver Accountability would require a car with five or more red-light and speed camera violations to be impounded until the owner completed a reckless driver accountability program. (Bklyner)

If you're someone who is perpetually looking for somewhere interesting to go on dates, NYC Date Nite is the IG account for you. "A how-to on dating in NYC, from someone who has done a lot of it." (@nycdatenite)

Kudos to Gothamist, who actually tried to clean a subway platform in light of the governor's mocking quotes this week. (Gothamst)

Councilman Jumaane Williams was endorsed by the Kings County Democratic Committee in his bid for Public Advocate. (Bklyner)

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29 best places to eat vegan in the city. (Grubstreet)

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