Going Places
Adams Administration’s ‘Visionary’ Idea for the BQE: A Six-Lane Highway
Eric Adams appears poised to restore two lanes on the BQE that were removed last year.
Morning Spew
Wednesday Is a Good Day for the DOB to Finally Inspect the Mayor’s Brooklyn Apartment
Plus: An NYPD evidence building goes up in flames, City employees acting badly, and some very relevant questions about where houseless New Yorkers have gone.
Cultural Capital
The Final Smhoakstock
A long-running 36-hour collaborative jam session drops its curtain, as the era of DIY spaces in Brooklyn also draws to a close.
Morning Spew
It’s Tuesday and the Mayor’s New Involuntary Commitment Policy Had Its First Day in Court
A controversial new policy finds itself quickly in court, and other links to start your day.
Q&A
The Black Widow Looks Back
Jeanette Lee, the subject of a new documentary, talks about her childhood in Crown Heights, and how she became the Black Widow of billiards.
Morning Spew
Mondays Are for Workers Getting the Goods
A strike ends, capping a momentous year of labor action in NYC, and other links to start your day.
Fresh Hell
SantaCon: Why?
On Long Branch! On Great Neck! On, Islip’s young stars! On Hoboken, Teaneck, and other points far!
Paying Rent
‘My Water Smells and Tastes Like Poop’: Tenants of NYCHA’s Riis Houses Reveal Ongoing Squalid Conditions
Riis residents have been living with discolored water, leaks, gas outages, mold, and vermin for months.
Cultural Capital
Rev. Billy on the ‘Soul Death of Shopping’ and Finding the ‘Wilderness Area in Ourselves’
The protest stalwart talks about being "being intimate with this apocalypse," ahead of the Stop Shopping Choir's show at Joe's Pub this weekend.
Fresh Hell
EXCLUSIVE: Is There Hair Sex in the New ‘Avatar’ Movie?
We answer the one question on everyone’s minds about “Avatar: The Way of Water.”
Esther Wang and Nick Pinto and Christopher Robbins and Max Rivlin-Nadler
$20 Dinner
$20 Dinner: Soup Queen Inception in Bushwick
It's always soup and sandwich weather at Gunther's.
Morning Spew
This Friday, New Yorkers Are Pushing Back Against City Hall’s Involuntary Hospitalization Plan
A rally on the steps of City Hall as a legal challenge to the new policy is filed, and other links to start your day.