Extra Extra: Why Isn't There A Subway To Staten Island?
Jan. 18, 2019, 5:20 p.m.
Because fatbergs keep growing, check out today's end-of-day links: Wu-Tang Clan docuseries, RIP Jimmy Blanco, Staten Island subway dream, Yelp reviewers, Sony & R. Kelly part ways, Chris Christie hates Jared Kushner, and cat strikes a pose.
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/70118259@N00/46790056391/in/pool-gothamist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jeffrey bary's flickr</a>
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- Democratic lawmakers pledged to investigate the BuzzFeed report that Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about Trump’s role in negotiations to build a skyscraper in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign.
- A Wu-Tang Clan docuseries is coming to Showtime.
- RIP Jimmy Blanco, a.k.a. the Lower East Side man in white.
- Why is there no subway connecting Staten Island with the rest of the city?
- A woman read 20,000 Yelp reviews as part of her master’s studies and found that reviewers’ obsession with "authenticity" is white supremacy in action.
- Uh, is anyone else weirded out by the fact Michael Cohen popped up today with a black eye and his arm in a sling?
- Vulture lists all the Parks and Recreation/The Good Place crossover Easter Eggs.
- Sony and R. Kelly have parted ways.
- Why have fatbergs been increasing in recent years?
- Vox writes that aliens are probably not trying to contact us...but that's exactly what the aliens want you to think!
- Don't even think about trying to film Hamilton when Lin-Manuel Miranda is in the house.
- The New Yorker declares: Bread is back, baby!
- Chris Christie hates Jared Kushner so very much.
- And finally, strike a pose:
"Just chilling" pic.twitter.com/STQIXTwnRW
— Fluff Society (@FluffSociety) January 17, 2019
