The "Constantly in Panic Mode" Edition
The "Constantly in Panic Mode" Edition
Maybe the mayor wasn't ready for the responsibility of being the mayor?
• The Met says it has plans to remove looted art from its collection, but this isn't a move of altruism from The Met. There's been pressure from foreign countries, journalists, the police, and the Manhattan DA for over a decade that The Met's been actively ignoring. (Arun Venugopal for Gothamist)
• The federal monitor overseeing the city's jails wants to know what the hell is happening in the city's five-story jail on a boat after he says the city suppressed information about an incident that left an incarcerated man paralyzed and on a ventilator along with four other incidents. (Reuven Blau for The City)
• An NYPD officer Juan Pere, who punched a defenseless man six times in the face, breaking his nose and knocking him unconscious in 2021, was indicted with an assault charge. (Matt Troutman for Patch)
• The Civilian Complaint Review Board is investigating a caught-on-video incident in which a police SUV’s driver repeatedly jerked toward a moped driver in highway traffic. (Matt Katz for Gothamist)
• The NYPD’s top uniformed officer, Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, has been served with a misconduct charge for ordering the release and voiding the arrest of an ex-cop in Brooklyn in late 2021. Last month the Civilian Complaint Review Board voted to substantiate a charge of abuse of authority for the incident. While it's good to see something moving forward, the idea that the police get a justice system separate from everyone else should be abolished. (Yoav Gonen for The City)
• City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called out the mayor for constantly being reactionary and in panic mode, saying it would be up to the City Council to be the adults in the room. (Katie Honan for The City)
• More than 1,000 beds and several hundred family units run by the Department of Homeless Services sat empty this week as Mayor Eric Adams began court proceedings to suspend the city’s 40-year-old right-to-shelter law due to a city “overextended” by newly arrived migrants. (Bahar Ostadan for Gothamist)
• This Smells Like Corruption: After hiring a lobbying firm and a maximum donation to the mayor's 2025 re-election campaign, the city signed a lease agreement for 158,000 square feet of space. The landlord and his son basically bought their way into a contract with the city through donations to the mayor's 2017 and 2025 campaigns. (Gwynne Hogan for The City)
• The ongoing contract negotiation between the city and the union representing the Staten Island Ferry crew has been ongoing for over a decade. Still, because of a law that bans government workers from striking in New York, the union can't use a strike as a bargaining chip. It's a ridiculously anti-union law, but here we are. After several workers called in sick on Friday, the city is making threats. (Catalina Gonella for Gothamist)
• RIP Nicholas Gray, the founder of Gray’s Papaya. (Luke Fortney for Eater)
• Hannah Gadsby's “It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby” opens at the Brooklyn Museum this week. The exhibition seeks to celebrate Picasso as "the perfect mascot for such a monstrously arrogant and destructive century." (Jessica Robinson for Brooklyn Magazine)
• A new market report of the city's rental market should simply read "We're fucked," but instead shows two back-to-back months of record high rents in Manhattan as New York remains the priciest city in the country. Brooklyn and northwest Queens also hit new highs. Thinking of going to Jersey City? Too bad, because Jersey City surpassed San Francisco for one-bedroom rents. (Matt Troutman for Patch)
• 23 low-budget ways to love summer in NYC 2023. (Gothamist)
• Grillo’s Pickles is hosting a pickle pop-up at 2 Rivington Street from June 2 through the 18. (Christina Izzo for Time Out)
• Photos: Scenes from the AquaDuck Flea Market. (Jeremy Elias for Brooklyn Magazine)
• Farewell to Edith’s Eatery and Grocery, which tried to be a modern-day Zabar's. Maybe we don't need any Zabar's at all? (Luke Fortney for Eater)
Reminder: I have a “Zabar’s Sucks” tote bag for sale.
• Ten secrets of the New York Public Library. (Nicole Saraniero for Untapped New York)
• As the city becomes increasingly impossible to exist in, artists are leading the charge in destroying neighborhoods as the sharp end of the gentrification spear, no matter if they're aware of being the harbingers of change. I'm not sure that the people interviewed and featured in this article know their roles in the cycle. (Andrew Karpan for Bushwick Daily)
• Red Hook's Community Board 6 is asking the city to stop allowing distribution centers to open in the neighborhood after a recent report found more than 1,200 delivery trucks and vans driving on the neighborhood's streets on several days. While companies like Amazon dangle the carrot of jobs, they do so at the cost of poor air quality and traffic congestion. (Matt Troutman for Patch)
• Eight things every New Yorker has done on their rooftop. Sex is not on the list. (Kristin Perrone for Time Out)
• If you love dumplings but hate people, Brooklyn Dumpling Shop is opening a 24-hour dumpling automat on E 78th. (Chris Saadat for East Side Feed)
• NYC's twelve best pastrami sandwiches. (Robert Sietsema for Eater)
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