High Life
What the Hell Is Going on With Legal Weed in New York?
"It's probably the second quarter of 2024 before you'll even start to see more retail stores open."
Morning Spew
Trader Joe’s Union Redo In Aisle Two
Trader Joe's employees on Essex Street are fearlessly flying into another attempt at a union.
$20 Dinner
Super Taste’s Legendary Noodles Breathe Life Into the Upper East Side
The UES menu is slightly abbreviated, but the first thing to get at Super Taste remains the same: hot and spicy beef hand-pulled noodle soup.
Morning Spew
Your Favorite Restaurant Probably Stole Wages From Its Workers
The scale is staggering, with wages stolen on almost every single block in Manhattan, ranging from hundreds of dollars to tens of thousands per business.
City of Immigrants
Adams and Hochul Point Fingers at Each Other Over Migrants. The Federal Government Is Raising a Middle Finger Right at Them
The sooner New York's leaders realize that the federal government isn't coming to save the day, the sooner they can figure out their own solution to helping asylum seekers.
City of Immigrants
Staten Islanders Tell Asylum Seekers They’re Not Welcome: ‘Why Not Put Them on Rikers?’
On Monday evening, a neighborhood near the entrance of the Verrazzano Bridge was packed with hundreds of Staten Islanders who had gathered to protest the City's decision to shelter asylum seekers in their neighborhood.
Morning Spew
Who Wants to Leave NYC for Cop City?
I tried to cover an Atlanta Police Department recruiting event, they wanted me to become a cop.
Fresh Hell
I Survived the Tom Verlaine Book Sale
Hundreds of bookish Brooklynites waited in the sun to sift through the Television guitarist's massive collection.
Cultural Capital
‘Mutt’ Couldn’t Be Set Anywhere but New York
"Mutt," playing now at Film Forum, is a slice-of-life drama following 24 hours in New York with Feña, a young half-Latino trans man whose father is coming from Chile to visit him.
Morning Spew
Eric Duprey’s Family Is Challenging the Official Police Narrative
And some links to start your week.
The Cops
Introducing: New York’s Finest
In the first edition of our biweekly roundup of cops behaving badly, we've got knife-wielding cops, Israeli cops, a cop killing a man with a cooler, a cop's death by friendly fire captured in body-worn camera footage, and more.
Going Places
Get Excited: OMNY Is Coming to the JFK AirTrain in ‘Three or Four Months,’ Maybe
The huge lines at the MetroCard machines because the AirTrain doesn't accept the the MTA's OMNY tap-to-pay system may be gone...in "three or four months."