The Top $20 Dinners of 2024 More delicious evidence that New York City is not just for rich people.

While SOME publications will tell you that blowing $400 on some Gilded Age cosplay is normal and cool,
@hellgatenyc.com would never!

Here are @scoboco.bsky.social's best $20 Dinners of 2024!

Inside Last Night's F Train Meltdown: 'The Whole Car Sang Her Happy Birthday' Zigis Switzer was one of the 3,500 New Yorkers stuck on two F trains in the subway tunnels for hours.

"We definitely rolled through three stations, three normal stops—the train sits there for a minute, people board, get off—before we hit the power outage," he said. "I knew from my texts there was a blackout. How come you didn't know that? That's crazy."

NJ Rep. Josh Gotteheimer Falsified His Spotify Wrapped to Juice His Springsteen Levels—What Else Is He Lying About? There was plenty of "Reason to Believe" that the conservative Democrat was cooking his music-listening stats, and other links to start your day.

Photoshopping your Spotify wrapped should be disqualifying for public service.

Need a select committee to get to the bottom of this ASAP

Cars Cause Vast Majority of Crashes in NYC—and Other Facts Booed by E-Bike Opponents at This Spicy City Council Hearing "So you're not trusting your own eyes that everybody is breaking the freaking law here?"

Asked Bob Holden about the mountain of data that the DOT shared that shows car drivers—not e-bikers—are involved in the vast majority of crashes in NYC.

"So you're not trusting your own eyes that everybody is breaking the freaking law here?"

Meet the New Yorker Artist Who Drew the Extremely Sick Knicks Cover Go New Yorker Go New Yorker Go New Yorker Go!

"As for hope—Knicks fans do not indulge in such insubstantial niceties. There is a belief beyond statistics and a faith that borders on entitlement. It’s not pretty, this kind of fandom."

Mayor Adams Has Turned Roosevelt Avenue Into a 'Hunting Ground' For Immigrant Vendors As Donald Trump prepares to begin mass deportations, the mayor has launched a crackdown on immigrant street vendors.

Mayor Adams Has Turned Roosevelt Avenue Into a 'Hunting Ground' For Immigrant Vendors

Rent Freezes and Eminent Domain Too much news happened over the weekend!

Can you guess which 2025 NYC mayoral candidate teased using eminent domain to seize buildings from bad landlords?

Sure Sounds Like Eric Adams Is Done Being a Democrat The mayor makes more Republican noises, but perhaps his future is really as an independent.

Sure Sounds Like Eric Adams Is Done Being a Democrat

Eric Adams's Swagger Is Back—And It's Ugly The mayor doesn't believe undocumented immigrants deserve due process.

Artificial intelligence is a racehorse that China is unafraid to unleash (cancel culture), undocumented immigrants don't deserve the U.S. Constitution, and other musings from the mayor:

Internal Documents: Steve Cohen's Casino Dream Comes With Nearly Double the Parking Spaces and 'Significant Traffic' Hell Gate received another tranche of files from City Hall related to a Freedom of Information Law request we submitted almost two years ago.

Steve Cohen has a slogan to help sell his casino bid: "Let's turn a parking lot into a park."

But his casino plan would nearly double the amount of parking currently available at Citi Field, and create a "significant" amount of traffic

Not Quite Adults, Not Quite Children, Teens Seeking Asylum in NYC Just Want a Little Help "They're scared kids who still want to be mothered and fathered and had to leave because not making that decision could have killed them."

"They're scared kids who still want to be mothered and fathered and had to leave because not making that decision could have killed them."

Heartbreaking story from @oliviabensimon.bsky.social about NYC's asylum-seeking teenagers who are falling through the cracks:

A Very Cash Cobain Thanksgiving The "sexy drill" pioneer visited his Bronx elementary school to give some winter coats away.

The exceedingly popular and wildly explicit "sexy drill" rapper Cash Cobain visited his old elementary school and
@adlan.bsky.social was there as a fly on the wall

This Trump-Appointed Federal Judge Day-Traded Millions in Crypto and Meme Stocks During Work Hours On some of the days Judge Eric Komitee was apparently day-trading stocks, he was also late to court hearings.

A federal judge in Brooklyn day-traded millions in meme stocks and crypto during work hours, in some cases on the same days he was late to court appearances.

Story and cover art by @nickpinto.bsky.social

What's the Point of LinkNYC? Expand broadband access? Strengthen 5G networks? Advertising? Eight years later, the kiosks don't fully succeed in doing any of that.

>@nickdemarchis.bsky.social takes a stab at a question that has been vexing me for a long time: What is the actual point of LinkNYC?

The City Says This Food Is Halal. These Migrants Aren't So Sure Riviera Hospitality Group, the contractor that provides food for the Creedmoor shelter in Queens, admits in paperwork filed with the state that it mixes together halal and non-halal food and passes it...

NYC says the meals they serve Muslim migrants at the Creedmoor shelter are halal.

Except, the halal food is mixed with non-halal food.

"Sometimes we eat it, just to not pass out."

Great reporting from Erin Durkin and @oliviabensimon.bsky.social

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