The "Two Types of Idiots" Edition
The "Two Types of Idiots" Edition
Hochul and Adams declare victory over subway crime, the MTA kills free Wi-Fi on buses, the best of late-night dining, and more.
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• If you thought that the delays to getting the LIRR went on forever, let me introduce you to getting Metro North into Penn Station. (Jose Martinez for The City)
• As millions of New Yorkers looked at the Empire State Building on Sunday as it was lit up with the colors of the Philadelphia Eagles, the team that ended the season of the New York Giants the week earlier, it finally hit them: This city isn't for you anymore, you just live here. (Gwynne Hogan for Gothamist)
• The latest on the Adams administration's mistreatment of migrants: Moving migrants from the Upper West Side to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook makes it nearly impossible for anyone with a job to keep it based on the required commute and conditions in the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal reportedly include cots with no sheets and no place to store possessions safely. (Gabriel Poblete for The City)
• Photos: The wonderful idiots of the 20th annual Idiotarod. (Scott Lynch for Brooklyn Magazine)
• Meet the dumb idiots following the siren call of a moron into the East River. No one's found one goddamn mammoth tusk after that Joe Rogan podcast. (Michael Wilson for NY Times)
• Governor Kathy Hochul wants more of the kind of cops that killed Tyre Nichols in Memphis. (Chris Gelardi for New York Focus)
• An NYPD judge cleared the cop who pepper-sprayed State Senator Zellnor Myrie during a 2020 George Floyd protest of wrongdoing. (Peter Senzamici for Patch)
• What you need to know to protest safely in NYC. These three links might be related. (David Brand for Gothamist)
• Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez is investigating the Brooklyn Democratic Party. Longtime readers of The Briefly will know how insane the party has been over the last few years, and The City's done some great coverage of it. (Yoav Gonen for The City)
• The MTA cut free Wi-Fi from city buses. (Bahar Ostadan for Gothamist)
• If you've missed petty billionaire James Dolan's facial recognition scandal at Madison Square Garden and Radio City, Gizmodo's got a roundup. (Mack DeGeurin for Gizmodo)
•City'sork City's finest noodle soups. (Ryan Sutton for Eater)
• The DOT has a legal requirement to build thirty miles of enhanced bus lanes this year and has already informed City Hall it will likely fail to meet the MTA's. The MTA's CEO would like them to live up to their word. If the DOT fails to live up to its legal obligation, can people who ride the bus sue them? (Dave Colon for Streetsblog)
• Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams are touting that they flooded the subways with cops, and those cops made arrests. It took 1,200 cops to reduce major subway crime by 16%. (Michelle Bocanegra for Gothamist)
• Five suggestions for the Williamsburg Market food hall. (Robert Sietsema for EateHawk'sony Hawk’s The Skatepark Project announced plans to bring the much-loved Brooklyn Banks skate park back to the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge as part of Gotham Park, which will stretch from Center St to the waterfront. (Michelle Cohen for 6sqft)
• We might be at FULL BEAN. (Tribeca Citizen)
• Nine hidden apartments in famous landmarks. Would you live in the United Nations? (Untapped New York)
• When everything is asleep at 1 am in Los Angeles, restaurants still serve food in New York. As New York starts feeling like New York again, New York is not Los Angeles easily comes into focus. (Luke Fortney for Eater)
• Gen Korean BBQ House, the Korean BBQ spot open until 4 am, is now open on Third Ave and Fourteenth. (EV Grieve)
• Where to eat late in the city. (Robert Sietsema for Eater)
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