🌱 Possible Raise For Food Delivery Workers + NYC Gets A New Map

Good morning, New York City!

• 📍 A new map of New York City just dropped.
• 🥡 NYC food delivery workers could be getting a pay increase.
• 🎟 Taylor Swift fans have "bad blood" after attempting to reserve NYC concert tickets.

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Mostly sunny and windy. High: 46 Low: 34.

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Here are the top five stories in New York City today:

1. New York City just released a new map defining the five boroughs' ups and downs (literally) and breaking the city into neighborhoods. But it probably won't settle age-old debates over where neighborhood boundaries begin and end because it comes with the disclaimer that "Neighborhood names are not officially designated." (New York City Patch)
2. NYC's roughly 60,000 food delivery workers could soon get a raise of up to $23.82 per hour by 2025, according to a proposal released by city consumer and worker protection officials. Delivery workers currently make $7.09 per hour on hour, excluding tips, officials said. (New York City Patch)
3. Tenants are urging New York State to close a loophole often called "frankensteining" which allows landlords to combine two adjacent vacant housing units that are rent stabilized and charge as much as they want for it, potentially removing the units from the program. They say this practice has been on the rise since the state passed sweeping rent law reforms in 2019. (The City)
4. New York State's concealed carry gun laws have been reinstated for the second time as they make their way through an appeals court. The laws, which ban gun owners from carrying firearms in some public spaces, were blocked in part by a judge last week, including new background check requirements for gun permits. (New York Daily News)
5. Hundreds of New Yorkers participated in an otherwise routine Department of Buildings meeting to draw attention to what they see as a major loophole in one of the city's most important climate laws, which requires buildings to significantly reduce their carbon emissions by 2024 and 2030. The law has a potential loophole that could allow wealthy owners to pay their way out of reductions. Buildings currently account for 70 percent of the metro area's greenhouse gas emissions. (Gothamist)

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Today in New York City:

• Union Square Holiday Market opens today (12 p.m.)
• City as a Canvas Artist Panel — West Chelsea Contemporary (6 p.m.)
• Hootenanny: A Celebration of Jewish Music (7 p.m.)
• Behind the Screens with Melani and Chicklet — Samsung 837 (7 p.m.)
• The Crossing Choir Gives NYC Premiere Performance of "Travel Guide to Nicaragua" (7:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• A 3-year-old boy was killed in Elmhurst, Queens on Sunday evening, police reported Wednesday. (New York City Patch)
• Taylor Swift fans in New York City were dismayed to find a "blank space" after spending hours online to buy presale tickets on Ticketmaster, which later appeared on a separate site being resold for thousands of dollars, according to reports. (New York City Patch)
• A new art exhibition made up of New York City objects comes out of the "Project Art Distribution, P.A.D. for short, a roving project space that collaboratively organizes one-day pop-up exhibitions on the sidewalks of New York City’s Soho." And works only cost up to $75. (Hyperallergic)
• This Bushwick barber originally from Venezuela has opened up his three-bedroom apartment to Venezuelan asylum seekers that recently arrived in New York City. (Gothamist)
• A Brooklyn politics "power couple" State Sen. Zellnor Myrie and former Assembly Member Diane Richardson, have announced they will get married. (New York City Patch)

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Alrighty, you're all caught up for today. See you all tomorrow for another update!

— Dashiell Allen

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