New York Magazine plasters city in celebratory mag covers, score the New York equivalent of a ‘Get out of jail free’ card’, and more Brokeing news.

Bushwick rental records shattered by $5,700/month one-bedroom, documenting every NYC diner, avoiding heat death in Gowanus, and more.

Have a statue too polarizing for Manhattan? Private Brooklyn institutions’, apparently, will take it; driver who killed Greenpoint cyclist gets off, & more.

Check out the Bk Museum’s new on-loan Basquiat, legal weed actually gonna maybe happen in NY this week, ICYMI future subways have arrived in Bay Ridge.

Realistic subway proposals, ‘fun city’, (maybe) RIP de Blasio’s Utica Ave. subway extension, Bed-Stuy’s boss female music exec, and more.

Subway slip ‘n slide, this was literally the least violent year ever in Brooklyn, nuclear fallout shelter signs being removed, and so very much more.

On police presence in gentrifying neighborhoods, an internet quest for a combo roommate-BF,

HuffPost comes out with Brooklyn TV, tarmac dancer strikes again upstate, go back in time at Trainworld, and more.

Brooklyn Cider House opens, bad weather abrewing, the city’s L train shutdown plan, attempts being made to revive Gawker, and more.

Gowanus getting hatchet-hurling range, Marty Golden getting heat for bizarre and hypocritical incident, Onion bashing MTA.