This subways cost too damn much, city libraries to forgive kids of fines, a 29-year-old local is running for congress, and more surprisingly positive news.

Illegal Airbnb business is thriving in W’burg, Gowanus school site declared body-free, golden tickets for Bushwick’s new Mission Chinese, and more.

A song for everyone’s favorite dead Gowanus creature, a warning for potential co-op buyers, an extremely exclusive, expensive and tiny bar.

Traffic is costly, study finds, surprising no one; MetroCard machines are charging straphangers without dispensing MetroCards, & more.

Racist L train rider forcibly removed from train, report finds dangerous lead levels in Greenpoint, should the toll to drive into Manhattan be $100?

‘Vampire removal’ tactic for registering Bay Ridge voters, ‘South Brooklyn’s’ meaning, voters prefer Cuomo to de Blasio, there’s a fungus among us, more.

Hypebeasts have made landfall, almost 100 years of Miss Subways and feminism, ‘Wonder Wheel’ trailer released, and more links.

MTA does not think we deserve nice things, Oops! is the hot free drag show you didn’t know you were missing, maps of NYC by language and pedestrian crashes.

Bye bye Kosciuszko, free tuition for over half of CUNY/SUNY students, free rent for homeless families who leave NYC, cat colony illegally removed and more.

How are Park Slopers at eating crawfish? We can finally find out, Kosciuszko Bridge being blown up for real this time, Cuomo cranky as ever, and more links.