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😳 Now this makes me wonder what’s hiding in other vents! Here’s the story of the death mask that was hidden for more than a century at The Players. Member Sami Horneff tells us more.

It’s official! New York City Council has passed reforms for scaffolding! Mark D. Levine and Keith Powers tells us more.

😨 When it rains over 300 million gallons of sewage overflow into NYC’s Newtown Creek! Meet the team of Newtown Creek Alliance Alliance working hard in cleaning up this waterway.

💵 Should NYC build more affordable housing in empty lots like these? Mark D. Levine who’s running for NYC Comptroller has an idea on how certain aspects of the city finances can be redirected for more affordable housing. This particular lot is 244 East 106th Street.

What do you think is the future of the Brooklyn waterfront? Should it be parkland or for high-rise development? The organization of Save the Bushwick Inlet is working to preserve the Williamsburg and Greenpoint as public green space. Steve Chesler & Katherine Thompson tells us more.

🇨🇺 Afro-Cuban music is making a comeback to NYC this May 8th with Chucho Valdés performing with his band Irakere at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts in Queens College! #sponsored

💦 Safe drinking water is essential for life, health, and the economic prosperity of our communities. Here’s an interview with NYC Water on how NYC maintains a safe drinking water supply for all New Yorkers. #sponsored by American Water Works Association

🌳 Do you think we need more trees in our cities? The Gowanus Canal Conservancy shows us how trees are being planted in order to improve the formerly barren neighborhood of Gowanus. Also featuring excerpts of Dr. T. Panova from our podcast The Perfect City.

My friend Michelle Young published a new book about a French spy during World War 2 and during her research she came across this little secret bookstore! Here’s a look into Chartwell Booksellers located inside 55 East 52nd Street.

👀 If it weren’t for this spy, we wouldn’t have some of the most valuable impressionist paintings hanging in museums today! Here’s my friend Michelle Young talking about Rose Valland, the subject for her new book The Art Spy.

😤 Should we still have highways in our cities that cut us off from the waterfront? Or should they be removed like they did in Seattle? With Gowanus Canal Conservancy and Save the Bushwick Inlet.

😰 This quiet park in Brooklyn is in danger of being paved with concrete to build a skate park! But the problem is that this proposed skate park would only bake under sun. Here’s Hayley Gorenberg of Friends of Mount Prospect Park sharing their side of the story.

🎷 Queens is the home of jazz—did you know? And what’s better than free live jazz in one of the beautiful @nycparks this summer? Be sure to check out Wayne Trucker and The Bad Mothas @wayneeverest on June 19th at 7pm in Astoria Park. #sponsored by Kupferberg Center for the Arts