Shake Shack Coming to Forest Hills; Lego Slippers Protect Your Feet From Plastic Bricks

• Shake Shack is opening a standalone outpost on Austin Street in Forest Hills. It will be the fourth in Queens, after those at JFK and Citi Field and another under-construction store in Elmhurst. [Eater]
• Watch this “hypnotic video” of the New York Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train Show from the train’s point of view. [Gothamist]
• All the way east on 25th Street is a small piece of land known as Bristol Basin. It was made out of landfill from the English city of Bristol during WWII. [Atlas Obscura]
• For parents who hate stepping on their kids’ pesky plastic bricks, get a pair of Lego slippers. [cnet]
• Late-to-work New Yorkers got 129,000 excuse slips from the MTA last year. The lines with the most requests were the 4, A, 5, and 2 trains respectively. [DNAinfo]
• Steven Steinberg, the third generation owner of the East Village’s beloved New York Central Art Supply, has passed away. [EV Grieve]

Images: The original Shake Shack in Madison Square Park (L); Lego slippers via Brand Station (R)