TBPN<\/a> over the last year. Hopefully we can all kick it again soon.<\/p>\nLast night I got dinner at Balthazar with some friends. I recommend ordering their spring pea ravioli before it leaves the menu.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s newsletter includes: L.A. Material is expanding their newsroom, Peter Rahal on how David Protein\u2019s new ice cream ended up on Bella Hadid\u2019s yacht, another bathhouse comes to Greenwich Village, and the highs and lows of Glossier\u2019s new hoodie launch.<\/p>\n
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NYCDOT wants you to think you can buy a beer on the Staten Island Ferry. A Feed Me investigation by our Anonymous Transit Expert found that\u2019s not always true. The Anonymous Transit Expert has to stay anonymous because he has a Real Job in a Real Office.<\/p>\n
In the midst of New York\u2019s first heat wave of the year, I snuck away from my desk at 5:30 on Tuesday on what should have been an easy assignment: purchase and enjoy one (1) beer on the Staten Island Ferry. I\u2019d taken note of a New York Times article<\/a> from late March that proclaimed the Staten Island Ferry bar open again for the first time since 2019, ending a seven-year dry spell\u2014precipitated by a lapsed vendor contract and exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\u2014and undoing one of the last remnants of 2020-induced disruption left in the transit system. After the Times ran with the Department of Transportation\u2019s confident proclamation, replete with interviews with the poet laureate of Staten Island, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and employees of the beverage distributor that made it happen, I was genuinely excited to relax and take in the harbor on a fast and free sunset booze cruise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good afternoon, everyone. It was fun seeing some of you this morning at Substack\u2019s media summit. I spoke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-246824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}