Brooklyn Today June 30: It’s Come to This With The MTA

June 30, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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THE LEDE: Good morning, and happy Friday! After months of snarled subways and chaotic commutes, Gov. Cuomo elevates the plan of attack for the MTA. Meanwhile, an urban design group submits a transit design that may allow you to avoid Manhattan entirely. Another body surfaces in Brooklyn waters, and Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez wants to help artists shed $10,000 in student debt. A contestant on “MasterChef” taps into his Brooklyn roots, and – surprise! – we have a pop quiz for you this morning. It’s a long weekend here at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, so we’ll see you again on Wednesday. Happy Independence Day!

IMPRINT: The New Yorker trolls Trump over his fake Time magazine cover.

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The Rundown

~IT’S COME TO THIS: Gov. Cuomo has issued a state of emergency for the MTA. That means that the state will spend an additional $1 billion on the agency, and new chairman Joe Lhota will need to hammer out a reorganization plan within 30 days. Meanwhile, passengers on stalled (and derailed) trains have begun self-evacuating in the tunnels. The MTA really, really, really urges you not to do that. (via Curbed NY, the NYT and WNYC)

~DON’T CALL BROOKLYN AN ‘OUTER BOROUGH’: As any Brooklynite knows, the days of all mass transit lines leading to Manhattan are over…or should be, at least. That’s why an urban design team has proposed a light rail system that directly connects Brooklyn with Queens and the Bronx, allowing passengers to bypass the dreaded Grand Central or Times Square transfer. The line would have 17 stops and operate along an existing freight-train track, complete with green spaces and parks along the way. (via DNAinfo)

~SECOND BODY IN TWO DAYS FOUND IN BROOKLYN WATERS: The body of a man who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday morning wasfound floating in the Bay Ridge Channel hours later. On Tuesday, a woman’s decomposed body was discovered in the vicinity of Gowanus Bayand Buttermilk Channel off the Red Hook shoreline. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

~IN ALBANY, AN “EXTRAORDINARILY PRODUCTIVE” EXTRAORDINARY SESSION: The New York State Legislature extended mayoral control of NYC’s public school system for two years in an extraordinary session yesterday, one day before authority was to revert to the former Board of Education system, with 32 different community school boards. Senate Republicans had originally insisted on linking the extension to an expansion of the number of charter schools that can open in the city, but they dropped that demand. After the session, Gov. Cuomo took to Twitter: “I think it’s fair to say the extraordinary session was extraordinarily productive.” (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

~ICYMI//YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO SHED $10,000 OF STUDENT LOANS:Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez has introduced a bill that would qualify certain people working in the arts for $10,000 of student loan forgiveness. Arts workers who provide services to seniors, children and adolescents would qualify. Here’s some context: the U.S. Department of Education finds that, in 2014, seven of the nation’s top 10 most expensive schools were art schools.(via Hyperallergic)

~FROM BENSONHURST TO ‘MASTERCHEF’: Dino Angelo Luciano is a saxophone player, self-professed androgynous dancer, passionate artist and “MasterChef” contestant. He’s now based in California, but he pays homage to his Brooklyn roots as a standout contestant on the cooking contest show. The blond-haired, tattooed, and charismatic Luciano chatted with the Brooklyn Eagle about growing up in the borough, and how food is the thing he misses the most about the city. “I mean, you can find better pizza at a gas station in Brooklyn than over here in an Italian restaurant,” he said, jokingly…sort of.(via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

~BROOKLYN HISTORY LESSON OF THE DAY: Brooklyn is the birthplace of plenty of influential people: Woody Allen, Al Capone, the Notorious B.I.G.and…the grandfather of the American carousel. The neighborhood ofGreenpoint has a history of carousel production that stretches back to the 1850s. How did it all begin? A patent for the improvement of the “flying” horse…(via Greenpointers)

~POP QUIZ FRIDAY: How many Brooklyn neighborhoods can you name in six minutes? Think you can get all 77? See how your neighborhood knowledge measures up compared to your fellow Brooklynites. (via the NYDN)
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Staff Picks:

QUICK LISTEN: One man asks himself the perennial question after encountering bigotry: confront the attacker, or walk away? (via WNYC)

LONG LISTEN: WNYC Studios + MoMA + “Broad City’s” Abbi Jacobson = “A Piece of Work,” a new, ten-episode podcast about contemporary art. (via Vulture)

INTERVIEW: Radiolab creator Jad Abumrad talks about his (temporary) self-imposed exile from radio, and subsequent return to his first career: music.(via the NYT)

QUICK LOOK: “What Your Snack Choices Say About You as an Artist.”(via Hyperallergic)

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NATIONAL BULLETIN: “The travel ban going into effect would have saved zero lives from terrorist attacks in the last 20 years”…What’s another area where wealth disparity shows its face? Climate change…High rollin’ travelers will soon be able to step up their Airbnb game with a new tier of service for luxury travelers…And what on earth would a thief do with the St. Paul Ballet’s portable stage? (via WaPo, Bloomberg and the Star Tribune)

FOREIGN FLASH: More than a million Russians lined up to file past a piece of Saint Nicholas’ rib…Serbia may have its first openly gay prime minister, but some LGBT Serbs dismiss Ana Brnabic as merely a puppet of PresidentAleksandar Vucic…Mexico City sags under the weight of climate change…And finally, haven’t you always wanted to learn about the “sophisticated design of a 3,000-year-old wooden toe”? (via WaPo, the NYT and Hyperallergic)

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ROYAL WATCH: “Super-nanny” comes to the rescue at Buckingham Palace. (via Yahoo!)

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BROOKLYN TONIGHT

6:00pm – 9:00pm – Ginuwine/Boogie Blind at Betsy Head Park. Details.

7:30pm – The Champagne Riot at Guadalupe Inn. Details.

7:30pm – Lola Star’s Dreamland Roller Disco at Lakeside. Details.

7:30pm – Measure for Measure at Polonsky Shakespeare Center. Details.

7:30pm – Think Olio: The Woman Question at The Strand. Details.

9:30pm – 90s Pop Sing Along at Union Hall. Details.

SATURDAY

3:00pm – The Eminent Irish of Green-Wood at Green-Wood Cemetery.Details.

4:00pm – Bargemusic at Fulton Ferry Landing. Details.

6:00pm – Everyday People at Betsy Head Park. Details.

7:00pm – Free Salsa and Bachata Dance Classes at Dance Fever Studios.Details.

SUNDAY

9:30am – Rooftop Yoga at Northern Territory. Details.

12:00pm – 6:00pm – A Dangerous Body at A.I.R. Gallery. Details.

12:30 – Illustrating the Visions: Alloys of Art, Poetry, Politics and Philosophy at Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. Details.

1:00pm – Historic Trolley Tour at Green-Wood Cemetery. Details.

3:00pm – Spy City: A History of Espionage in New York at Q.E.D. Details.

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ON THE PITCH: That Friday feeling with Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez.

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MILESTONES

Happy birthday to Fantasio Barrino, Lizzy Caplan, Vincent D’Onofrio, Nancy Dussault, Rupert Graves, David Alan Grier, Monica Potter, Patricia Schroeder, Cole Swindell and Mike Tyson!