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Monday, March 30, 2026

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Dear New Yorkers,

Councilmember Gale Brewer attends so many public meetings, it sometimes appears she has the ability to be in two places at once.

One day, she sorta was.

While Brewer was going about her business repping Manhattan’s Upper West Side, someone posing as Brewer took out a $32,980 loan from a pension fund for city employees known as NYCERS. The loan was approved instantly, and the money transferred to an account listed as hers.

The real Gale Brewer had no idea this had occurred until NYCERS picked up on the scheme.

“It was shocking,” she told THE CITY.

Brewer is among the dozens of city employees whose accounts have been hacked by grifters.

Read more about the scam and the thwarted attempts to catch the con artists behind it.

Weather ☁️

Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66.

MTA 🚇

In Manhattan and Queens, select Forest Hills-bound M trains run via Roosevelt Island from 57 St.-7 Ave. to 36 St. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.

Alternate side parking 🚙

It’s in effect today, March 30.

By the way…

The mayor’s office has launched “Municipal Madness,” where people can vote on what non-urgent repairs they want the city to make first, including what they want the mayor to fix himself.

Our Other Top Stories

Almost 500,000 New Yorkers are expected to lose their health insurance coverage through the state’s Essential Plan on July 1, thanks to federal budget cuts imposed by the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Read more about who will be impacted and how.

New York City is going to court in a bid to shut down a controversial ride-hailing service that offers cheaper trips than Uber and Lyft — but which is accused of operating outside of Taxi & Limousine Commission regulations.

An epic art show at the Lexington Avenue Armory made a young Marcel Duchamp, who was back in France, one of America’s first modern celebrities even before he first arrived in New York City for what became decades of painting, conceiving, chess-playing and love-making — though not always in that order. John Strausbaugh, the author of Duchamp Takes New York, joins the LIT NYC podcast for a wide-ranging discussion of an artist’s life in the Big Apple’s old San Juan Hill, and much more.

Things To Do

Here’s what’s going on around the city this week.

Monday, March 30: Visit Cooper Hewitt, the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary design. Pay what you wish from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Monday, March 30: Try to sing songs you know, but with syllable-matched lyrics like Yelp reviews of psychics to the tune of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and negative reviews of professors to the tune of “Vampire” at Robot Karaoke in Bushwick. Free, $10 suggested donation. At 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 31: Join NYPL Career Services for a conversation with media leaders Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neill as they discuss their new book, “All the Cool Girls Get Fired,” with journalist and TV host Brooke Baldwin at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library. Free, at 6:00 p.m. RSVP here.

THE KICKER: The Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Central Park Conservancy have launched their annual cherry blossom trackers online for live updates on where to find cherry blossoms, or sakura, this spring.

Thanks, as always, for reading. Make it a great Monday.

Love,

THE CITY