The New York Groove

ICYMI: my dispatch from the three-hour-long line outside Mamdani's new jobs center nygroove.nyc/jobs-nyc-mam...

🚨🚨voting sickos: NYC early voting sticker designs just dropped 🚨🚨 we’ve got ones for halloween AND the marathon!!! early voting starts TOMORROW www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/23/e...

There are many ballot question guides out there. Read the ballot referendum guide that DIDN'T draw an annoyed rebuke from Reinvent Albany for misrepresenting their position on one of the questions nygroove.nyc/coge-ballot-...

All hands on deck to save the 2030 Census (and everything that depends on it, which is a lot!). Thanks to @vksmith.bsky.social for a great overview of the Trump administration's latest threats to the census. cc @jeffwice.bsky.social @thenyic.bsky.social @council.nyc.gov

when people ask "why do you think the economy is bad when the stock market is up" this is the kind of shit i want them to read there is next to zero safety net if you lose the job you have, which is at risk every quarter if you're ownership didn't see their revenue go up by the right amount

The census may be four years out, but if you want to prevent New York from losing congressional seats and desperately-needed federal funding, the time to act is right now nygroove.nyc/trump-census...

“I have like $20 in my bank,” one job seeker told @timdonnelly.com. “I'm serious. And I know I don't look like I need a job. I gotta eat and buy toilet paper, darling.” nygroove.nyc/jobs-nyc-mam...

Everyone loves the toot scoot nygroove.nyc/franklin-ave...

Newly installed signs point to what the Manhattan vehicle tolls are funding in the transit system.

ICYMI: this week's issue of The Groove has ballot proposition advice and an ode to the Franklin Avenue 'toot scoot' nygroove.nyc/email/3b1fdd...

FINALLY

Fans of the small but mighty train can celebrate together this weekend at a free block party thrown by the aptly-named volunteer organization Shuttle Friends nygroove.nyc/franklin-ave...

This is fabulous local history about, IMO, the best train in Brooklyn

Never forget what they took from us.

did you know the Franklin Ave. shuttle used to connect to the beach AND to a brewery a block away from Ebbetts Field? AND that it's been saved from death time and time again by its neighbors and fans? read on for the toot scoot's surprisingly drama-filled backstory nygroove.nyc/franklin-ave...

Want to know how to vote on Zohran's cheekily named COGE ballot measures on Nov. 3? @davecolon.bsky.social has an extremely cogent guide locked and loaded nygroove.nyc/coge-ballot-...

The City Council is set to finally ban horse carriages in Central Park next week. Read a little about how they got there: nygroove.nyc/free-the-cen...

We're bringing the handsome weather man back to Caveat in a few weeks and tickets are, as expected, already going quickly nygroove.nyc/nov-3-were-g...

We're going live with @nymetrowx.bsky.social on Nov. 3, get a ticket now! nygroove.nyc/nov-3-were-g...

From the archives for today:

If you try to use the 311 app, get ready to interact with some wonky new AI nygroove.nyc/nyc311-ai-sm...

I had to do this this week after seeing the union statement about hating it, and I also hate it! I asked my server and they hypothesized part of it was "loss prevention," but it's a weird, ungainly half-measure that did not simplify or improve my experience!

I'm here in the @nygroove.nyc today with shocking news for you that AI has threatened to ruin another good thing: 311 nygroove.nyc/nyc311-ai-sm...

Comic Con is this weekend, but you don't really need a reason to dress up with New York's historical costumer society nygroove.nyc/ny-historica...

Fast fashion is a real problem. The City Council might fix it with curbside textiles recycling: nygroove.nyc/nyc-curbside...

The MTA is looking for ways to improve passenger wayfinding via improved screens and announcements. Better tech is good on paper, ETA's Blair Lorenzo told the New York Groove, but the real question is if it will actually be used to improve the rider experience, and not simply blast more noise.

~1 hour until tickets open for Open House New York this year. Make your plan now! nygroove.nyc/open-house-n...

actually relevant updates on station screens? announcements you're able to clearly hear and understand??? a brave new world awaits the MTA, @timdonnelly.com reports nygroove.nyc/the-mta-is-a...

registration for ticketed Open House New York events opens TOMORROW at noon, brush up beforehand so you can jump on the best options before they sell out: nygroove.nyc/open-house-n...

It's new @nygroove.nyc issue day! nygroove.nyc/email/6c8176...

tasking our in-house AI agent with telling this person to go fuck themselves

and yet he only has a single terminal named after him while LaGuardia gets a whole airport. really makes you think.

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

Can we interest you in Victorian hair art? The history of tarot?? The study of magic in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia???Medieval monsters?! An honest-to-god haunted house????!! Inquire within for your fall itinerary of enlightenment and enfrightenment nygroove.nyc/5-spooky-fal...

noted Ric Burns megafan @davecolon.bsky.social caught up with Burns this week about his controversial mayoral take, and the decades-in-the-making new episodes of his magnum opus "New York: A Documentary Film" nygroove.nyc/new-york-a-d...

we've been down this road already nygroove.nyc/ai-subway-ads/

our latest neighborhood blog spotlight takes us to Long Island City, which the blogger behind LIC Talk says is still a walkable, everybody-knows-your-name kind of neighborhood in spite of all the glassy new towers nygroove.nyc/the-local-an...

The 20th century has been operating with a consumerist “fundamental idea” that has affected trash collection: “Take, make and waste,” said DSNY Commissioner Gregory Anderson. “We are asking more of our planet and its people than we can endure.” nygroove.nyc/nyc-curbside...

you hear it more and more! gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

here's a horrifying stat: textile waste in the U.S. has grown 80% between 2000 and 2018. so how are we going to keep it from choking landfills even more than it already has? nygroove.nyc/nyc-curbside...

What does Long Island City have in common with Fire Island? you'll simply have to read the latest edition of The Local Angle to find out: nygroove.nyc/the-local-an...

The New York Groove sat down with ETA to discuss the onslaught of unnecessary announcements facing NY riders. This type of noise pollution not only annoys riders, but trains them to not listen to announcements. As the NY Groove's tag puts it, "Better Things are Possible."

ICYMI: This week's issue dropped this morning and includes a campaign against subway noise pollution and some people who want you to embrace costumes beyond Halloween, plus a thinker of a Q of the Week. Read and subscribe! nygroove.nyc/email/dea71e...

Cosplay has breached containment. I repeat, cosplay has breached containment.