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City Council Wants to Make Subway and Bus Rides Free for Low-Income New Yorkers
City Council Speaker Julie Menin has announced a proposal for an expansion of the city’s “Fair Fares” program that would provide free train and bus rides for NYC’s poorest residents. Under the proposal, which is part of a broader (and pretty contentious) budget plan unveiled by Menin on Wednesday, the city program would cover the full cost of fares for…
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At Bodega Nights, Bushwick’s Club Corridor Finally Gets a Grown-Up Dinner Option
Bodega Nights is located at 425 Troutman Street, between Wyckoff and St. Nicholas Avenues, and is currently open on Wednesday through Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight Zoe Clifton and David Wilson didn’t plan on all this happening so fast. The couple had only been running their first business, the tiny, “working glass wine bar” Babysips on the Lower…
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Brooklyn Mirage Execs Privately Cancelled 2025 Season, Continued to Sell Tickets Anyway
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‘Us V. Them’ and The Battle for Brooklyn’s Indie Scene
In July 2014, I attended a festival hosted by the magazine I was interning for at the time, held at the second iteration of the all-ages event space Secret Project Robot. They called it “The Normcore of Summer Festivals” (were we ever so young?). Trace Mountains opened at noon; Mannequin Pussy took the stage at 3. I fanned myself with…
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LARAAJI’s Days of Radiance in Park Slope
In the remote corner of Gowanus that Public Records’ Sound Room occupies, LARAAJI lurked peacefully stage left while musician and sound healing facilitator Samer Ghadry prepped the crowd. Squished into the north side of the room, we made bird calls, shook our bodies and voices from side to side, and imitated gongs (low) and autoharps (high). “It’s the end of…
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Big Changes are On The Way for Outdoor Dining in NYC
Year-round outdoor dining in New York City appears to be on the verge of a comeback. That’s thanks to a new bill currently being deliberated by City Council that miraculously has the support of both Speaker Julie Menin and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The bill, sponsored by the borough’s own councilmember Lincoln Restler, would roll back the Eric Adams-era regulations and…
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The Bill That Could Seize Buildings from The Worst Landlords in NYC
Zohran Mamdani‘s war on negligent landlords is heating up. A few weeks back, the newly elected mayor launched his “Rental Ripoff” hearings to provide a forum for aggrieved tenants to air their most traumatic experiences as renters and direct them towards the appropriate city officials. But he isn’t waiting for the dust to settle to fire his next shot. Mamdani,…
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New Bill Would Set NYC Minimum Wage to Highest in The Country
On January 1, the “new” in New York City did a lot of lifting. It was, of course, the first day on the job for (then) newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city’s freshly raised minimum wage, courtesy of Governor Kathy Hochul and a statewide 2024 proposal that brought NYC’s lowest hourly rate to $17. The latter was the…
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A Musical Inspired by Luigi Mangione is The Hottest Ticket in NYC This Summer
The story of accused United Healthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione is hitting the stage in NYC this summer. And it’s already shaping up to be one of the hottest tickets in town. Aptly and tellingly titled Luigi: The Musical, the production is less inspired by the hard facts of a high-profile case still making its way to trial, and more…
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Seven Years In, The Fly Can Still Spice It Up
It was a grotesque Tuesday evening in the southwest corner of Bed-Stuy, barely March and still mired in the last frigid, visible exhale of Winter. It had been drizzling solidly, miserably all day, which extended into the evening, and dogshit colored ice drifts still clung stubbornly to the curb outside The Fly on the corner of Classon and Fulton, making…
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