The "When A School is not a School" Edition

NYCHA apologizes, Covid-19 booster shots, no one wants to touch the Times yeshiva story, the best pizzeria in the world, Midtown's best new tacos, Polio becomes a disaster, and more.

Today - Low: 64˚ High: 77˚
Rain in the morning.

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• Polio is a state-wide disaster, declared on Friday by Governor Hochul after it was found in wastewater on Long Island. (Nsikan Akpan for Gothamist)

• A look at Covid-19 deaths by race/ethnicity, exposing the structural racism inherent in our system. (Daniel Parra for City Limits)

• Governor Hochul's Covid-19 emergency powers expired Monday, ending the governor's purchasing power. By the end of the month, more of the governor's emergency powers relating to the pandemic will expire. We're still at a 5.7% positivity rate. (Jon Campbell for Gothamist)

• If you get a bill from CityMD for a Covid-19 test that should have been free, you should fight it, like Nick Pinto from Hell Gate did. As Nick learned, call your insurance company about the bill and have them bully CityMD into making the correction. (Nick Pinto for Hell Gate)

• It's time to get another Covid-19 booster because we're headed back into winter, and you need the protection. Don't complain. Get a damn shot. If you're over 12 and you got your last booster at least two months ago, it's time. Check out the link for more details. (Nsikan Akpan and Caroline Lewis for Gothamist)

• The mess over testing that showed arsenic in the water at NYCHA developments is only getting worse. The water quality testing vendor says there was never arsenic. The tenants affected are confused and pissed, and rightly so. Every detail about what led to the false positive and what's happened since does not paint a great picture of NYCHA management. (Greg B. Smith for The City)

• The Times outlines how Hasidic yeshivas are failing to live up to their end of the bargain, giving them a billion dollars in funding in the last four years. It's a staggering set of statistics to see how many of these schools gave state standardized tests to see nearly every single student fail them. The schools are violating a state law that guarantees children an adequate education. This story is worth your time; if you don't want to give it that, you can check out the visualizations. (Eliza Shapiro, Brian M. Rosenthal, and Jonah Markowitz for NY Times with contributions by Alex Lemonides, Marcela Rodrigues-Sherley, Alyssa Lukpat, and Bianca Pallaro. Susan C. Beachy contributed research)

• "I'm not going to look at a story. I want a thorough investigation, I want an independent review, and that's what the city has to do." -Mayor Adams, who did not announce he was launching an investigation. (Matt Troutman for Patch)

Zack Fink @ZackFinkNews

Responding to @nytimes story on secular education in Yeshivas, @GovKathyHochul says “people understand that this is outside the purview of the Governor. There is a regulatory process in place but the Governor’s Office has nothing to do with it.” Hochul says it’s DOE @elizashapiro

• Since the mayor won't do anything, the last mayor didn't do anything, and the governor doesn’t want to do anything, the state's Education Department is ready to try. A new framework proposes regulations for private schools that, if not met, could no longer be legally considered schools. (Sophia Chang for Gothamist)

• Yeshiva University can bar an LGBTQ student group while a court case makes its way to the Supreme Court. (Liam Stack for NY Times)

• Eighteen defunct colleges and universities in the NYC area. (Noah Sheidlower for Untapped New York)

• NYC Ferry rides will cost $4 instead of $2.75. There are still discounts available, and you will no longer be charged $1 to bring a bike aboard. (Kevin Duggan for amNY Metro)

• Interview: Dr. Torian Easterling is stepping down from his position as the city's first Chief Equity Officer after two years on the job. (Elizabeth Shwe and Sean Carlson for Gothamist)

• New York City is the most expensive city to get a gym membership in the country. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)

• A combo of the mayor's demand for in-office work and low-balling new hires created the fun, new problem of a shortage of lawyers willing to work for the city. Since they can't get people to work for little money, his galaxy brain idea is to get people to work as attorneys for the city for no money. The hope is that law firms would "lend" junior attorneys to the city for a year. Once again, our mayor resembled a Batman villain, trying to destroy the city from within. (Yoac Gonen for The City)

• City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams announced her support for a bill that would ban solitary confinement in city jails. The mayor supports "punitive segregation," solitary confinement by another name. The bill seeks to end loopholes like the one the mayor supports. (Joseph Kong for NY1)

• A report on deaths in city jails in 2021 shows many of them could have been prevented had it not been for a pattern of neglect from jail staff. (Reuven Blau for The City)

• Cardi B was in Brownsville over the weekend at events hosted by Community Capacity Development and CAMBA, a nonprofit focused on neighborhood development. CCD invests in areas with disadvantaged or marginalized communities, and CAMBA provides social services to New Yorkers in need. (Jada Camille for Brooklyn Paper)

• Fifteen unique habits of New Yorkers, even if eating dinner at 9:30 pm or refusing to leave your borough on the weekend seems normal. (Shaye Weaver for Time Out)

• This weekend is the New York Transit Museum’s Parade of Trains, where you'll find vintage subway trains running in the B and Q lines through the afternoon. (Aaron Ginsburg for 6sqft)

• Photos: The People of Afropunk Brooklyn 2022. (Amanda Hatfield with photos by Gretchen Robinette for Brooklyn Vegan)

• Apartment Porn: A $6 million Park Slope brownstone with seven mantles, central air, six beds, three and a half baths, a sizable backyard with a garden, and more. (Susan De Vries for Brownstoner)

• Six picks for Mexican mariscos, often tostadas, aguachiles, ceviches, fish soups, shrimp cocktails, and other dishes that are often eaten in the mornings and afternoons as makeshift hangover cures. (Luke Fortney for Eater)

• Una Pizza Napoletana is the best pizzeria in the world, according to 50 Top Pizza, tied with I Masanielli di Francesco Martucci in Southern Italy. the only other pizzeria in New York to hit the top fifteen was Ribalta. New York had four entries in the top fifty. (Anna Rahmanan for Time Out)

• CitiBike set a new record for riders last Thursday with 138,372. That's more riders than the BART system in San Francisco. (Julianne Cuba for Streetsblog)

• Apartment Porn: Billie Holiday's former Upper West Side apartment is on sale for $13.9 million. (Shaye Weaver for Time Out)

• Where to Go: Dirty Taco at Grand Central. What to Order: Cabeza and duck skin tacos. (Luke Fortney for Eater)

• Nineteen facts about the subway to wow and amaze your friends. Did you know there's a library inside the Lexington Ave-51st St station? (Shiloh Frederick for Shiloh in the City)

• The (self-declared) definitive guide to Theater District dining. (Ryan Sutton for Eater)

The Most Clicked Links in the Last Edition:

1. For $3M, this colorful storybook cottage in Prospect Park South has two sunrooms

2. Unsellable Soho Loft Now Comes With an NFT

3. Baz Luhrmann’s Gramercy townhouse hits the rental market for $75K/month

Featured City Pet: Oliver!

Oh my god, this face. Thank you to reader Sarah for sending in this photo of Oliver. Send your pet pics to thebriefly@gmail.com.