The "Buy this bridge for $200" Edition
The "Buy this bridge for $200" Edition
No more remote school, the Queens Night Market is returning, 21 exceptional vegan restaurants, The Late Show returns with an audience, and more
Today - Low: 65˚ High: 71˚
Mostly cloudy throughout the day.
• Heading to Coney Island this weekend? Here's where to eat. (Robert Sietsema for Eater)
• The sky is falling and NYC rents might have hit their bottom and are on their way back up. (Emily Nonko for Cubed)
• The Queens Night Market is coming back on June 19 in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)
• In celebration of 138 years of the Brooklyn Bridge, ten "secrets" of the Brooklyn Bridge. (Emily Nonko for 6sqft)
• For $200, you could have "bought" the Brooklyn Bridge in 1899 and George C. Parker sold over and over again. (Gabriel Cohen for NY Times, 11/27/2005)
• It's official. No more remote school next year. Mayor de Blasio announced everyone is back to school in-person and full-time in the Fall. (Amy Zimmer for Chalkbeat)
• An 11-year-old boy fell 10 feet through an open subway grate at Rudd Playground in Bushwick. The city was notified about the broken fence four weeks ago. (Sophia Chang for Gothamist)
• The best Caribbean food in Crown Heights and Bed Stuy. (Shelly Worrell for The Infatuation)
• Grandmaster Flash, Slick Rick, Chuck D, Mayor de Blasio, Nas, LL Cool J, and Fat Joe helped break ground on the Universal Hip Hop Musem in Harlem in what I hope is the last collaboration between Mayor de Blasio and Nas. (David Cruz for Gothamist)
• Opponents of Governor Cuomo's Empire State Development Complex are calling for the project to go through the city's Uniform Land Use Review Process instead of getting a rubber stamp from the governor. (Mark Hallum for amNewYork Metro)
• An outline of Maya Wiley's plan to reduce class size in city schools, including how she thinks she's going to pay for it. (Elizabeth Kim for Gothamist)
• The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will return with a fully vaccinated audience on June 14. (Ben Yakas for Gothamist)
• A look at Soda Club, a new bar and restaurant in the East Village offering 200 varieties of wine, multiple uncommon soda flavors, and a plant-based menu from the folks behind Avant Garden, Ladybird, and Amor y Amargo. (Amber Sutherland-Namako for Time Out)
• The Times weighs in on the seemingly unending stream of self-owns that Andrew Yang has produced while running for mayor. Yeah, it feels stupid to harp on the fact that he couldn't name a single Jay-Z song even though the man wrote a literal anthem for New York City or that he says his favorite subway stop is Times Square, but it's endemic of his plans for the city too. Andrew Yang's lack of self-awareness might be funny his chances to win the mayoral race were just as likely as his chances to win the presidency were, but they're not. Instead, New York City might elect Michael Scott the mayor. (James Poniewozik for NY Times)
• Be careful about knowing your polling place on June 22. If you go to the wrong polling site, your vote may not count. (Samantha Maldonado for The City)
• After June 22, don't expect a winner right away. There will not be a winner declared for the primary until July 12. (Brigid Bergin for Gothamist)
• If Yang does win the mayoral primary, he'll do so without an endorsement from a single municipal union. (Reuven Blau for The City)
• How to watch the Republican Mayoral Primary on May 26. (Samantha Maldonado for The City)
• How to figure out the rent you’ll actually owe each month thanks to the Gross Rent Calculator. (Brick Underground)
• The City's Meet Your Mayor: Homelessness. (The City)
• None of the three major public pollsters in the New York City region have done comprehensive surveys in the mayor’s race, so it's literally anyone's guess as to who is really leading. (Dana Rubenstein for NY Times)
• The East River Ferry Stop at the India Street Pier is closed for construction with the intention of completion sometime this summer. (Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner for Greenpointers)
• What building would the mayoral candidates tear down if they could? (Jen Carlson for Gothamist)
• 21 exceptional vegan restaurants. (Emma Orlow for Eater)
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