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VOL. VI · ISSUE 84
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FRIDAY EDITION · JANUARY 17, 2025
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38°F IN THE FLATIRON DISTRICT
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A weekly inbox dispatch from the five boroughs
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From the archive
Recent Friday issues.
A sample of the last five editions, in case you want to know what you'd actually be opening at 6 a.m. Every issue is hand-edited — no auto-summary, no AI rewrite.
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The fare-hike countdown, the Brooklyn library fight, and a bodega-keeper who's been on the same corner for 41 years.
Plus: why every Manhattan commuter will lose four minutes on Monday, the Queens tenant union nobody saw coming, and a Friday read on the city's vanishing newsstands.
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The first week of the new year: 14 things that actually changed in New York while you were out.
A new sanitation schedule, a closed LIRR line, a quietly re-zoned DUMBO block, and the bodega cat who became acting mayor of a Queens co-op board.
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The holiday-week edition: the 11 stories our readers emailed us about in 2024, ranked.
From the Bronx tenant who fought a 38% rent increase to the Staten Island ferry captain who started a sourdough side hustle. Plus our annual editor's letter.
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Inside the Adams administration's quiet subway shake-up — and what three veteran conductors are saying about it.
Plus: a Bed-Stuy block that banned Amazon lockers, the Bronx school-board race nobody covered, and the year's most quoted cabdriver.
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Jules Marchetti
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Priya Ramanathan
Co-founders & co-editors, The Wrap
A note from the editors
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Every issue starts on Monday and gets read, argued over, and re-cut by the two of us before it ever lands in your inbox. We pick five to seven stories — never more — and we tell you what we'd say about them at a bar. If we can't, the story doesn't run.
We started this newsletter in March 2020, the week the city shut down, because we wanted one place to send our friends the things we were reading. Four hundred and nine Friday mornings later, it's still that — just with 78,500 of you reading along.
— Jules & Priya
- Jules Marchetti, former WNYC senior producer, 14 years on-air at NPR affiliates
- Priya Ramanathan, former Gothamist editor, founded the bilingual street-corner series
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