The "Free Pizza With Everything" Edition

Add West Nile Virus to the list, the city's mobile pollution lab, the Times' biased endorsement in NY-10, myth busting congestion pricing, things you'll hear in line for a bagel, and more

Today - Low: 75˚ High: 84˚
Clear throughout the day.
This weekend - Low: 72˚ High: 83˚

Thanks to reader and Mets fan Brian for sending in this paradox at the corner of Hanover and Wall St, where you also can’t go straight. Send in your city photos to thebriefly@gmail.com to be featured!

• Polio, Monkeypox, and Covid-19 not enough for you? City mosquitoes infected with the West Nile Virus are at an all-time high. Two human cases have been identified. Wonderful. (Nick Garber for Patch)

• When is a primary mailer not a primary mailer? Ask Representative Carolyn Maloney, who used taxpayer money to send mailers to constituents ahead of the August 23rd primary. While it might be legal, it certainly feels like cheating the rules. (Brigid Bergin for Gothamist)

• Where to Go: The Alligator Lounge. What to Get: Anything, because it comes with a free pizza. (Luke Fortney for Eater)

• The last show at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn is on Sunday night. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)

• Questions Answered: How to find your polio vaccination records and more. (Nsikan Akpan for Gothamist)

• What the hell was City Councilmember Vicky Paladino trying to accomplish when she •posted a video of her confronting a squatter and had weed smoke blown in her face•? I guess if she wanted headlines about it, congrats Vicky. Here you go. (Kayla Levy for Patch)

• Covid-19 and City School Changes: Daily health screeners are gone, testing portions of the student population are gone, vaccine mandates for students are gone, and more. Reena Amin for Chalkbeat)

• Rikers Island was designed to hold people accused of crimes for less than a year. Why have some detainees been there up to a decade? (Reuven Blau for The City)

• If you see a weird-looking Prius on the streets, it might be the city's mobile air pollution lab, measuring air quality block by block. (Rosemary Misdary for Gothamist)

• When you spend two minutes looking into the Times' endorsement in the NY-10 congressional primary, things start smelling funny. The Times endorsed Dan Goldman, whose family has ties to the Sulzberger family. Did A.G. Sulzberger recuse himself from the editorial board making a decision? Nope. (David Dayen, Alexander Sammon, Ryan Grim for The Intercept)

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For some reason antivaxxers are currently outside former mayor Bill Deblasio’s house in Park Slope dumping ketchup, writing chalk messages on the sidewalk, tping the fence and surrounding cars. They’ve so far just said they’re there to chant “fuck DeBlasio.” Running outta ideas?

• Overtime costs for the NYPD totaled $762 million in the 2022 fiscal year, the second highest in the city's history. It was only topped by $837 million in 2020. As noted by a state audit, while Mayor Adams made comments about reducing overtime, he didn't have a plan to do so. (Matt Troutman for Patch)

• NYC's pets are the most spoiled in the country, which makes sense because our pets are also the best in the country. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)

• Longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg will serve five months in jail after pleading guilty to tax fraud. (Matt Troutman for Patch)

• Busting myths about the congestion pricing study. (Dave Colon for Streetsblog)

• The 9/11 Tribute Museum is closed due to financial hardships. This is not the National September 11 Memorial Musem, which is still open. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)

• Cuomo can keep his $5 million of Covid-19 book money. The latest ruling in the case is due to a technicality about how the Joint Commission on Public Ethics didn't follow the correct process. A decision from the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government is where the fate of Cuomo’s stupid book money will be decided. (Jon Campbell for Gothamist)

• The Grand Central branch of the NYPL will close in December. Open in 2015; it was always intended to be temporary while the Starvos Niarchos Foundation Library was under renovation. (Rossilynne Skena Culgan for Time Out)

• Succession is filming on both Upper Sides ahead of the new season debuting in October. (E.L. Danvers for East Side Feed)

• Eli Zabar swears that •his opposition to a proposed Safe Haven shelter is rooted in construction practices• and not the fact that when you think of who a NIMBY might be, you immediately picture someone like Eli Zabar. (Nick Garber for Patch)

• There's an Only Murders in the Building pop-up this weekend. (Shaye Weaver for Time Out)

• Ten things you'll hear in line for a bagel. (Kristen Perrone for Time Out)

• Apartment Porn: A $26 million duplex on Park Ave with 14 rooms, a 34-foot-long marbled-floored gallery, a formal dining room, three staff rooms, four beds, five-and-a-half beds, and more. (Michelle Cohen for 6sqft)

• Ten abandoned places to check out in Manhattan. (Untapped New York)

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Featured City Pet: Seamus!

Thanks to Kathleen for sending in this photo of Seamus, even if it looks like we’ve disturbed Seamus from a lovely nap. Send in your pets or wild animals you made friends with to thebriefly@gmail.com