Ferry services comes to the Bronx and LES this month; Was Florida’s beloved key lime pie invented in NYC?
Via NYC Ferry (L); key lime pie via Flickr/cc (R)
- The NYC Ferry’s Soundview and Lower East Side routes will launch on August 15th and 29th. [NYC Ferry]
- What it’s like to live in an SRO, NYC’s original “micro-housing.” [NYP]
- There is a fierce debate going on after a cookbook author claimed key lime pie was invented by the Borden condensed milk company at their Madison Avenue test kitchen in 1931. [Gothamist]
- Some of the city’s most contaminated water tanks are at NYCHA buildings, so why was this erased from inspection reports? [City & State]
- The 24th annual “Greenest Block in Brooklyn” award goes to the stretch of Lefferts Avenue from Bedford to Rogers Avenues in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. [amNY]
- Vote for Central Park’s cutest dogs to make it into their 2019 calendar. [Central Park Conservancy]
- There’s an Instagram account documenting the apartments of rent-stabilized tenants living in the East Village. [EV Greive]
