Weather: 🌧️ Cloudy, with rain likely this afternoon and highs around 70.
It's Tuesday in New York City, where there's still time to register for Saturday's citywide scavenger hunt.
Open House New York, which has previously held scavenger hunts around themes of art deco, zoning (!) and libraries, has designed its seventh hunt based on all things "Water Works."
City Councilmember Gale Brewer said she wants to bring back the fluorescent shame stickers the sanitation department used to slap on cars that blocked street sweepers. (They were banned in 2012 after drivers complained the glue was too sticky to remove.)
In other street safety news, the city's Department of Transportation is kicking off a community-led effort to redesign the Conduit corridor in Brooklyn and Queens.
Earlier this month, Cuomo’s campaign grabbed headlines for an obscure page on his campaign website called “A Message for Voters.” Critics said the page represented “red-boxing,” where a campaign posts information for a super PAC in a location where only the PAC would see it.
Dozens of New Jersey towns are seeking to extend a June 30 deadline to adopt plans showing how they’re going to meet state requirements to generate new affordable housing in their communities.
In addition to building 900-foot long, 12-foot high wave barriers to prevent storm surges on both sides of the tracks, the transit agency installed a “debris shield” to prevent items in the water from splashing onto the tracks.
The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to plant 1,000 thriving American chestnut trees that are hybridized with the blight-resistant Chinese chestnut tree across the five boroughs.
