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vrijdag 6 maart 2026
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Friday, March 6, 2026
Dear New Yorkers,
When it’s drizzling and cold out, and you’re exhausted from a long week, that’s prime time to hit order on your favorite takeout.
As you do that this weekend, consider whether you know the proper etiquette for tipping the hard-working drivers who speed all over the city on two wheels delivering Pad Thai, pizza and a lot more.
Rules around how they get paid have muddied the water a bit in recent years. So, we spoke with delivery workers and their advocates to find out the basics, like:
In Brooklyn, no Q trains between Brighton Beach and Coney Island-Stillwell Av from 9:45 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
Every year, volunteers go out from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. across the city to identify how many people are living on city streets, subways and parks. Visit nyc.gov/hope to volunteer and register to take part in the event.
From our publisher:
New York legislators have the chance to help dozens of nonprofit newsrooms across the state, including us here at THE CITY. We hope they’ll take it. Feel free to tell your representatives in Albany that you feel the same.
In 2024, the state legislature set aside $30 million a year in tax credits to support media outlets here. But nonprofits like us, who aren’t taxed like commercial outlets, were left out in the cold. Now the Assembly and Senate are considering legislation to fix that problem. It would provide grants worth up to $25,000 per staffer at nonprofit websites, public radio and TV, and public access channels.
Importantly, the government wouldn’t be able to pick and choose which working news outlets get the money. Politicians couldn’t punish newsrooms whose coverage they don’t like. Our editorial independence would remain intact.
We’re delighted that so many of you, dear readers, have chosen to contribute to THE CITY. Thank you! Please keep it up. An injection of resources from the state would help us do more of the journalism you find valuable. Look up your rep in the Assembly and tell them that you support bill #A10330, or your Senator, where the bill is #S9285.
Parks Department photographer Malcolm “Cinema” Pickney is retiring from a career that led a kid who “had this curiosity of how an image is put on paper” into a half-century career snapping pictures of everything from the High Bridge to the Mothership. Read more and see his work here.
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Ten parks and playgrounds across the city will be rehabbed with $50 million in new capital investments, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Thursday — even as the agency’s budget isn’t getting other much-needed funds.
The spaces are being renovated through the Community Parks Initiative, which makes repairs in historically underserved neighborhoods.
Parks Commissioner Tricia Shimamura said more than 100,000 New Yorkers will benefit from the renovations in parks including Mott Playground and Morris Mesa Playground in the Bronx, Van Dycke and Elizabeth Stroud playgrounds in Brooklyn, Vladeck Park in Manhattan, Corona Health Sanctuary in Queens and Kaltenmeier Playground on Staten Island.
The capital boost comes as Mamdani is poised to break his campaign promise of doling out at least 1% of the city’s budget to the Parks Department.
The preliminary $127 billion budget he proposed in February allocates $654 million to the Parks Department — $33 million less than the current budget and about 0.5% of total city spending.
— Katie Honan
Things To Do
Here’s what’s going on around the city this week.
Friday, March 6: Second Avenue Dance Company members perform their March concert, titled “Investigating the WE” at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Free, at 7:30 p.m. RSVP required.
Sunday, March 8: The Whitney Museum kicks off its Biennial. For the first time ever, anyone 25 and under can see the exhibition for free.
Sunday, March 8: See artists use their chainsaws to carve ice sculptures at Governors Island from noon to 3 p.m. RSVP here, with free admission, but a $10 donation is encouraged.
THE KICKER: The skate park slated for Brooklyn's Mount Prospect Park has been scaled back after community members voiced concerns that the original 40,000-square-foot project would take up too much green space.
Thanks, as always, for reading. Make it a great Friday.
Love,
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