I love my local cheese shop. I love the cheesemonger who’s always reading a novel and has a fun take on it. Today: “How’s Brave New World?” “Sexier than I expected!”

Queens people: Can you recommend a bar near the Astoria Blvd subway stop that’s good for a group and ideally has food?

One of the best to ever do it

🚨 Lydia is running for Assembly in a district that voted for Zohran by 74-26 in the primary… without the incumbent’s endorsement

why use 30 words when 14 will do?

We ride at dawn

Dan Goldman: – Didn't endorse Zohran Mamdani – Voted w/ 212 Republicans to censure Rashida Tlaib – Joined 148 Republicans to express "disgust" at South Africa's ICJ genocide suit – Suggested the attack killing 100+ waiting for food was Hamas narrative – Didn't "trust" number of kids killed in Gaza

Absorbing new information flawlessly by imagining it as a mental pizza and storing it in my mental pizza rack

Hi from the most festive house in South Slope

These two buildings in Park Slope call the same street different names. Today I learned this is because, after President Garfield was assassinated in 1881, people on Macomb St asked to honor Garfield with a renaming. They were also tired of their street being confused with Macon St in Bed-Stuy

It’s going to be so cool to have a mayor who really cares about working people and goes out of his way to show it.

If the backyard is full, you’re at Union Pool If you see a bocce ball, you’re at Union Hall

Follow Gwynne for live coverage of regular New Yorkers blocking ICE vehicles in Manhattan (big garage on Centre St near Howard St)

The good news is that my retired nurse mom loved this book I got her. The bad news is that now she insists that I read it. The other good news is that the book is great! But then the bad news is that there’s just so much tuberculosis in it

And the 181 St. station has been like this the entire time? In a canyon?

It’s the most magical time of the year (ex coworkers and people from high school sending me this tweet)

South Park has taken an aggressive anti-Trump stance and it’s impacting Thanksgiving politics in a favorable but annoying way

The algorithm has started showing me a bunch of videos of people boxing or burying their pet turtles for hibernation season. Not what I need right now

Political cartoon about NYC housing policy

There’s a 200-year-old Quaker cemetery on land that now sits within Prospect Park. It’s fenced off from the public and easy to miss. Today I was happy to see a few local nannies having a picnic with their babies in the clearing nearby

I’d pay to subscribe to the Delta streaming service from home. The “under 2 hours” filter alone would be worth it

At the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Juan, I saw this placard explaining a solely smell-based artwork with juniper berries and angelica seeds etc. Spent a couple of minutes sniffing the air before a docent told me it’s only spritzed on Wednesdays

Seeing a disgusting loser get his ass kicked all over New York City really makes me miss the Mets

One thing about David Foster Wallace: The guy had a vocabulary

NEW Report: States that voted for Trump got billions from MTA Spending Companies in red states by U.S. Senate seats received more than $3.5 billion in MTA payments over 14 years. States that voted for Trump in 2024 received nearly $7 billion from the MTA over this period. buff.ly/Yxt4KZ6

A corrupt SCOTUS just gave the President a veto on Congressional budget power and this is our Democratic leader?

GHISLAINE MAXWELL: here we go, boss. a big book of letters from all of your horrible best friends JEFF EPSTEIN: oh neat! look at this one from Donald GHISLAINE: that one's fake actually

My “I’m not dropping my fatally doomed reelection campaign” t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt

It might have been literally 20 years ago that @kattullus.bsky.social mailed me a mixed CD of the coolest songs I’d ever heard. The lesson: If you recommend music to a sulky teenager, it might get lodged in their brain forever

This isn’t even the saddest reporting of how AI hurts people, but it’s really making me want to quit Facebook and Instagram.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Chuck Schumer’s response emails to my constituent complaints are taking so long lately, by the time I get them, I can’t even remember which atrocity I had written to him about specifically

Does anyone have an earbud recommendation? I loved Jabra but they stopped making earbuds, and the top Wirecutter rec seems to have been broken by an iOS update

Lower Manhattan Streets That Are Also Good Names for Cats: • Baxter • Delancey • Carlisle • Mosco • Murray • Monroe • Catherine Lane

The original electric car is the human heart

The Incredibles and The Incredibles 2 came out 14 years apart, yet they take place seemingly within the span of maybe a week. No one is talking about this

R/malelivingspace, rate my living room

Abolishing ICE isn’t enough.

No.

Is the plural Labubeaux?

Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented. “We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...

This should’ve been his campaign relaunch. “I’m Andrew Cuomo. I invented gay marriage and Dodge Charger. But one thing we can’t dodge is the affordability crisis”

Action Bronson could have written A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but Shakespeare couldn’t have come up with “spin kick to the dick, I’m eating dim sum”

Absolutely fucking insane. Shredding Medicaid is not a jobs plan

When it’s starting to rain and your friend says goodbye with “stay dry!” It isn’t rude to say “I’ll get as wet as God wants me.” That’s just accurate

SCOOP: Mamdani did something even we are forced to concede wasn't what it we are also making it sound like, to no tangible gain, for a college he didn't go to, 15 years ago. Our anonymous source is political activist Adolf Hitler