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Aug. 1, 2025, 3:01 p.m.
Because Comptroller Brad Lander is asking questions about the DOE's $750k in catering orders at one restaurant, here are your afternoon links: Sydney Sweeney's favorite brand of jeans, Lucinda Williams' new bar in the East Village, a Staten Island grandma loves Fat Joe's "Lean Back" and more.
Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where we got an update about what caused an explosion in the subway system last year.
Here's what else is happening:
- In other explosion news, two separate manhole fires ignited in Bushwick yesterday evening.
- New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has raised some concerns about the Department of Education's approval of $750,000 in catering orders placed with one Caribbean restaurant in East New York over this past fiscal year.
- Lucinda Williams has a new "honky tonk" karaoke bar in the East Village.
- An old "Striver's Row" townhouse in Harlem that Bob Dylan once lived in is on the market for $3 million.
- Chappell Roan put out a new song called "The Subway." (It's about love.)
- Sydney Sweeney loves her Levi's.
- The "gross" Chocolate Monkey Bread from the subway recipes sounds good to me?
- Some love for "Lean Back."
- And finally, king:
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— πoΜ΄gΜ΄ (@Yoda4ever) August 1, 2025