AI can help journalism all right (help it plagiarize while looking and reading like absolute shit) grime-square.com/2026/08/02/b...

Bushwick Daily Is an AI Slop Zombie

“Having them flame out like this just feels kind of silly”

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Lots of non-car summer travel stuff to read in this week's @nygroove.nyc newsletter: take a bike vacation with Dave (spiritually), join the quiet car on the subway and more! nygroove.nyc/email/ac0dde...

Issue No. 164: Bike tourism 101 + The Q train's 'quiet car'

Welcome to another beautiful Thursday in the greatest city in the history of human civilization, gang. Why the chipper mood in this objectively dour political and geopolitical moment? Because we've go...

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Been saying this for years, everyone forgot how weather actually works and trusts the nefarious single rain icon on your dubious and duplicitous phone instead! www.businessinsider.com/weather-apps...

One tiny rain icon is changing how Americans spend their summers — and crushing small businesses

Weather apps are showing rainy forecasts even on sunny days, causing Americans to scrap their summer plans and hurting a lot of small businesses.

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if you're sch**l requires kids to go back when it is still holy goddamned july, i think you have no choice but to move far away from that place

once again i maintain, only half snidely, that you will be able to swim in the East River before they ever build the Plus Pool, whose pilot was just delayed again until next year

a challenge to see how many times a single bar can rebuild and be forced to tear down its outdoor dining

New York City Council@council.nyc.gov · last wk.

What if you and your besties could sip Aperol Spritzes outside ALL YEAR-ROUND?🍹 The Council is pushing to bring back year-round outdoor dining, allowing everyone to get more seating at their favorite restaurant –– and small businesses to have more customers in every season.

We want to hear from you on our Question of the Week on this topic too: take a wild guess! tally.so/r/kdQzgd

can't believe the event that is embarrassing during a normal presidency was exponentially more embarrassing during Our Ongoing National Cringe presidency margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-predic...

The predictable disgrace of the White House Correspondents Dinner

And why I reject every specious argument that encourages the media to keep normalizing Trump

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thanks to this AI shirt for letting me know which team each tower rooted for

call Matt & Kim because this is a real 'block after block' issue of The Groove today

The New York Groove@nygroove.nyc · 2w ago

📣 BRAND NEW ISSUE of The Groove is out 📣 nygroove.nyc/email/b19801...

I stopped by the REI on their literal last day and every single thing was still full price! we can't even got a 'sorry for the union busting' close out sale? www.curbed.com/article/rei-...

The Final Days of the Soho REI

Shoppers mourned the loss of a place to buy last-minute ice cleats. And the lack of deals.

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i'm the guy who invented the unclosable autoplay video at the top of the news story that has nothing to do with the link you clicked on, and i don't agree

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 2w ago

The least-talked-about factor in the decline of local news and reading is how horrible and unusable so many of their websites are. It's just the truth, and it's been awful for a decade, so people moved on.

after attending the city's big free world cup watch party yesterday it seems damningly clear to me we have no song of the summer again this year. That's the kind of event where the Song of Summer would be doing numbers, everyone would be up and dancing to it. no such luck. trump curse hits again.

ridiculously juice-less, someone call Ocean Spray for help or something immediately

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2w ago

Official trailer for ‘Avengers Doomsday’ In theaters December 18

nice write up of a true community production; check it out to see the walking wedding cake costume made by .... MY WIIIIIIFE!

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 3w ago

Fall in Love With Shakespeare on the Rocks's Version of 'Much Ado About Nothing' Rockaway locals battle weather and smoke to capture "lightning in a bottle" in their new boardwalk production. hellgatenyc.com/shakespeare-...

Good. When we used to do trade shows at the Javits Center, we would walk by the “stables” for these poor horses. Awful and inhumane way to treat an animal.

The New York Groove@nygroove.nyc · 3w ago

Even Central Park wants them gone now: The Central Park Conservancy has come out as an ardent supporter of the ban. “It was clear this is becoming a threat to public safety and public health," a spokesperson said nygroove.nyc/free-the-cen...

Even Central Park wants them gone now: The Central Park Conservancy has come out as an ardent supporter of the ban. “It was clear this is becoming a threat to public safety and public health," a spokesperson said nygroove.nyc/free-the-cen...

Just free the goddamn horses already

Banning the archaic and weird tourist-trap industry is closer to finally becoming a reality this week.

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After a horse died and an 18-year-old was killed last month, the horse carriage industry promised more oversight to prevent tragedies. But that hasn't happened: “That behavior is continuing. There continues to be a real issue with how they’re operating the carriages." nygroove.nyc/free-the-cen...

Just free the goddamn horses already

Banning the archaic and weird tourist-trap industry is closer to finally becoming a reality this week.

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the transit worker's union going nuclear for ~200 drivers of the central park tourist horse carriage's might be the most NYC (derogatory) thing i've seen all year

Tim Donnelly@timdonnelly.com · 3w ago

I finally embraced my destiny and wrote about the Central Park horses and my thought is: just free the fuckin horses already nygroove.nyc/free-the-cen...

Tim's right, it's completely crazy that we're letting this stuff continue to happen, and I'm not just saying that because I'd like to be able to bike through the park without running over horse shit.

Tim Donnelly@timdonnelly.com · 3w ago

I finally embraced my destiny and wrote about the Central Park horses and my thought is: just free the fuckin horses already nygroove.nyc/free-the-cen...

There was a viral post early in the Mamdani mayoralty where it was like "oh New York had a child crushing machine and he turned it off." This is actually one of those instances where a stupid, dangerous thing has gone on for way too long and we just need a politician willing to stop it.

Tim Donnelly@timdonnelly.com · 3w ago

I finally embraced my destiny and wrote about the Central Park horses and my thought is: just free the fuckin horses already nygroove.nyc/free-the-cen...

I finally embraced my destiny and wrote about the Central Park horses and my thought is: just free the fuckin horses already nygroove.nyc/free-the-cen...

Just free the goddamn horses already

Banning the archaic and weird tourist-trap industry is closer to finally becoming a reality this week.

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This week's newsletter is OUT now: A live report from the showdown over the horse carriage industry; a space-bending guide for new parents, your New York patriotism answers, and more! nygroove.nyc/email/206b5b...

Issue No. 162: Mis-carriage of justice + Small kids, small apartments

Some weeks feel more apocalyptic than our generally apocalyptic baseline, and there's no arguing that this is one of them. While we wish we weren't hitting your inboxes on another morning full of hazy...

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my controversial take about sports it that you should know when the timer is going to end

england soccer 🤝 me drunk looking at a cool mug at the tiki bar 'it's comin home"

He is also an anti-fluoride in the water supply guy www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/...

MAHA moment? NYC Council bill would ban fluoride in drinking water

The bill’s primary sponsor, Council Member Jim Gennaro, is close with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but said the Health and Human Services secretary did not suggest this.

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Tim Donnelly@timdonnelly.com · 3w ago

CM Gennaro self identifies as "a horse guy"

interesting. I don’t see any horses (labor) in this crowd.

Jose Martinez@jmartineznyc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Steps away, a counter-rally by @twulocal100.org

horse carriage ban hearing update: Councilman Gennaro wants to know why PETA isn't upset about all the OTHER animals who eat toxic plants in Central Park too

Greenpoint History Night tomorrow once again this will be a fun one. 👍

We're in The NY Groove! thanks for beautifully telling the city about our fight for sustainable pay, better benefits/healthcare + editorial integrity across amNY, QNS, BX Times, BK Paper, Brownstoner, Ll Press + more. Take a read! #SchnepsUnion

Tim Donnelly@timdonnelly.com · last mo.

The right to remember where the bodies are buried (literally and figuratively) is a key part of the @schneps-union.bsky.social fight. I talked to the workers of the city's largest newspaper chain here: nygroove.nyc/schneps-medi...