Early Addition: Park Slope doesn't usually smell this bad

Feb. 23, 2024, 10:51 a.m.

Because Park Slope is particularly smelly lately, here are your early links: lawmakers are pushing for more red light cameras, a change to Staten Island's St. Patrick's Day Parade, Vice Media is dead, and more from around the city and internet.

An NYC sewage drain.

It's Friday afternoon in New York City where there's been another fatal shooting at a Bronx subway station.

Here's what else is happening:

  • There are currently 150 red light cameras at intersections around the city, but Department of Transportation officials want to up that number to 1,325.
  • Organizers of the Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade have long insisted that gay groups did not belong at the event, even as a ban on LGBTQ groups participating in the Manhattan parade was lifted a decade ago. This year, however, will be different.
  • TikTok is driving the demand for Swedish candy in the U.S. way up.
  • Bobi the dog was posthumously stripped of his “oldest dog ever” title following an investigation sparked by a December report in Wired.
  • It’s the end of an era. Vice Media is essentially dead.
  • Sometimes all you need is to share a free cup of tea with a guy in a Brooklyn park.
  • “It smells like sewage – poop and pee mixed together,” one person said of a mysterious, foul smell radiating through Park Slope for months.
  • And finally: no survival skills, all of the cuteness skills: