The "Get Rid of 'Dead Body' Smell" Edition
Equality through cruelty, Mayor Adams defends housing migrants in tents, a car you can find and drive, Punk Temple's history, the burger you can only barter for, the best local breweries, and more
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• Last year, the city promised to issue more licenses for food street vendors. Instead, the city has been sitting on its hands, and the NYPD started a scorched-earth crackdown on unlicensed vendors. (Max Rivlin-Nadler for Hell Gate)
• The mayor has been defending his use of a tent to house asylum seekers, arguing that the city should treat its shelter obligation and the migrant crisis differently. Ah, the classic "separate, but equal" defense. (Catalina Gonella for Gothamist)
• Do you have any ideas about how to get rid of dead body smell? I'm asking for fellow New Yorkers. (Matt Troutman for Patch)
• Keeping with its policy of "Cruelty Above All Times," the city evicted a neighborhood-built playground in Red Hook at the request of the Economic Development Corporation. (George Joseph for The City)
• The Adams administration is rolling back changes to school admissions that could have made schools more equitable and reintroduced selective admissions, which will only serve to segregate the city's schools further. (Troy Closson for NY Times)
• Black mold in classrooms, flooded libraries, and leaks. Welcome to CUNY through the eyes of the multiple Instagram accounts detailing the system's decline, where deferred maintenance will cost $4.3 billion, and enrollment is on the decline. (Sophia Chang for Gothamist)
• Ryan Murphy, purveyor of the worst garbage on TV, is bringing American Horror Story: New York City to TVs this fall. Time Out put together a gallery of the best reactions. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)
• There's a car floating around the city with 1,000 keys that will unlock it. If you find it, you can drive it. Who wants to go for a ride? (Jake Offenhartz for Gothamist)
• Apartment Porn: A $40 million Tribeca townhouse with six floors, a rooftop pool, 24-foot ceilings, over 10,000 square feet, a bathroom bigger than any bedroom I've ever lived in, a gym, home cinema, wine storage, and more. Of course, it has more. (Devin Gannon for 6sqft)
• Map: NYC's 18 new Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurants. (Eater)
• The Barnes and Noble on Court St is moving a block away to the former Barneys on Atlantic Ave. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)
• Of course, you can find more and more independent bookstores opening up across the city for your TBR shelf. (Rossilynne Skena Culgan for Time Out)
• A look back at the Punk Temple, the legendary all-ages Bensonhurst punk venue run out of a Reform synagogue. (Lauren Vespoli for Hell Gate)
• Map: Eleven places to find mapo tofu, with Brooklyn, Queens, and Lower Manhattan represented. (Robert Sietsema for Eater)
• If you've ever liked anything in the Gramercy Park Hotel, it all can be yours, thanks to the hotel's liquidation sale for the next few weeks. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)
• A guide to rent-stabilized apartments in NYC. (RentHop)
• The Strut Your Mutt parade and Howl-O-Ween party are returning to McCarren Park this year. Clear your calendar for the morning of October 30. (Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner for Time Out)
• The Williamsburg Trader Joe's employees filed for a union election, seeking to end the disproportionate discipline of workers of color. The closure of the wine shop in Union Square has been followed by rumors of a connection to employees seeking to unionize. (Ben Brachfeld for Brooklyn Paper)
• Farewell to Rabbithole on Bedford, closing after fifteen years. The owners are closing up shop to "simplify our lives." They still own and run Monarch on Metropolitan. (Jennifer Rosini-Gentile for Greenpointers)
• Eleven of the best "new school" slice shops. Today is pizza day. (Ryan Sutton for Eater)
• David Geffen Hall is set to open on October 8, one $550 million renovation later. Choose-what-you-pay tickets are available for San Juan Jill: A New York Story on the 8th, with some free tickets will be made available the morning of the performance. (Aaron Ginsburg for 6sqft)
• It's the only burger in the city that you can't buy, but you can get one if you trade in your own stuff. Margaret Rhodes shines a light on Shyan Zakeri's Shy's Burgers, a burger pop-up that operates on the barter system. Got an old Game Boy game gathering dust and hankering for a burger? This is your shot. (Margaret Rhodes for Grub Street)
• There's a new cat cafe in the East Village. (EV Grieve)
• Poetry and photos of a trashed blow-up doll. Out of Air (Part One). (NYC Trash Stories)
• Apartment Porn: Mindy Kaling's Soho pied à terre condo for $2.75 million, with two beds, 1,200 square feet, two baths, and more. (Devin Gannon for 6sqft)
• Patti Smith will celebrate her 76th birthday with a show at Brooklyn Steel on December 30. (Amanda Hatfield for Brooklyn Vegan)
• Fourteen knockout vegan and vegetarian restaurants. (Eater)
• Gamehaus is a new beer hall and arcade in Long Island City on 51st Ave. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)
• Seven examples of abandoned subway art. (Nicole Saraniero for Untapped New York)
• Map: The city's best local breweries. (Luke Fortney for Eater)
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Featured City Pet: Mabel!
Thank you to reader Chelsea for sending this photo of two-month-old Mabel and her pig. After seeing this photo, I temporarily died of cute overload. I’m better now. Send your pet/animal/stray/bodega cat photos to thebriefly@gmail.com!
Mabel has stolen my heart. ❤️