The "Worst Air Quality on Earth" Edition
The "Worst Air Quality on Earth" Edition
At least we can use our pandemic masks to protect us from the toxic air, right? Also, a dessert burger.
• What to know about Sunday's Puerto Rican Day Parade. (Kerry Shaw for Gothamist)
• Ten eerie photos of a smoke-filled NYC. (Shaye Weaver for Time Out)
• Congrats: NYC had the worst air quality in the world on Wednesday! (Matt Troutman for Patch)
• A haze Q&A with Daniel Westervelt, a Lamont Assistant Research Professor at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and an air-pollution adviser to the U.S. State Department. (Alissa Walker for Curbed)
• Keep an eye on the air quality, because it still sucks. (Matt Troutman for Patch)
• New York City public school students will shift to remote learning today, as wildfire smoke continues to slowly kill us all. (Alex Zimmerman for Chalkbeat)
• How to keep your pets safe in the smoke. (Brittany Kriegstein and Catalina Gonella for Gothamist)
• How to keep your apartment's air clear of wildfire smoke. (Samantha Maldonado for The City)
• Mandatory composting is coming. You're not allowed to bitch about doing your part when the air is literally trying to kill you. (Sophia Chang for Gothamist)
• A palette cleanser about Ice-T performing in Bushwick. (Andrew Karpan for Bushwick Daily)
• The MTA is considering diversifying its fight against fare evasion beyond NYPD enforcement. When I run for governor, I will be running on one platform and one platform only. Mass transit should be completely free, and we will find savings by removing literally all barriers and technology that promote the enforcement of paid fares. Instead, we will focus on rider satisfaction and improvements to the system. I will talk to anyone at any length about this. (Ana Ley for NY Times)
• A judge threw out more than 300 criminal convictions that relied on the work of nine former NYPD officers found guilty of accepting bribes, planting drugs on people, and other crimes. (Samantha Max for Gothamist)
• What's not to love about the new ACAB NYPD cruiser? (Abby Monteil for Them)
• The City Council passed legislation today requiring the city jail system to provide transgender, gender-nonconforming, non-binary, and intersex (TGNCNBI) detainees with services to prepare them for reentry into society — specialized programming that has fallen by the wayside since Mayor Eric Adams took office. (George Joseph for The City)
• How hard could it possibly be to make Lunar New Year and Diwali school holidays in New York State? You underestimate the red tape. (Jon Campbell Gothamist)
• James Beard Awards to New York City: Drop Dead. (Luke Fortney for Eater)
• Roll N Roaster vs Brennan & Carr: Who has Brooklyn's best roast beef sandwich? (Robert Sietsema for Eater)
• Mayor Adams claims he's open to housing migrants in Gracie Mansion, but he says a lot of things. Now we wait. (Giulia Heyward for Gothamist)
• If you want to relive the excesses of startup culture in the mid-2010s, Kickstarter's former Greenpoint office is for sale. Challenge: Try to read the descriptions of the space without rolling your eyes once. (Adriane Quinlan for Curbed)
• Congratulations to the workers of Union Square’s Barnes & Noble for their overwhelming vote to unionize this week. (Elizabeth Shwe for Gothamist)
• New York, in an attempt to be relevant to presidential hopefuls, is trying to move the presidential primaries up from June to April starting in 2024 to match Connecticut and Pennsylvania primaries. (Brigid Bergin for Gothamist)
• NYC is delaying a new short-term rental registration deadline after Airbnb sued the city to stop enforcement. (Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky for Gothamist)
• Related: How many NYC apartments are empty? No one knows! (David Brand for Gothamist)
• Ten under-the-radar vegan restaurants. (Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky for Untapped New York)
• A look inside the world of striped bass and weed, which are not two different subjects, but one joined topic. (Esther Wang for Hell Gate)
• The Adams administration is suing 30 upstate counties and Long Island for refusing to accommodate migrants, saying it was time to bring an end to “xenophobic bigotry.” (Bahar Ostadan for Gothamist)
• Ten secrets of the Brooklyn subway. (Untapped New York)
• "On weekend nights, this particular newsstand transforms into a portal to another world, glowing with rainbow-neon lights, operated by people in leather bodysuits and masks." Welcome to The Stranger. (Trisha Mukherjee for Time Out)
• Inside an illegal temporary license plate business. (Jesse Coburn for Streetsblog, co-published with Motherboard)
• A dessert burger? Bar Americano has the most controversial burger in Brooklyn. (Luke Fortney for Eater)
• Where to eat and shop in the Little Caribbean neighborhood. (Rossilynne Skena Culgan for Time Out)
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