Midtown view Friday evening
• A year after state lawmakers established the Housing Our Neighbors with Dignity Act (HONDA), not a single hotel has been converted to housing in New York City (City Limits)
... and a video making the rounds this weekend ... riding into Williamsburg on a J/M/Z train...
• A tour of the "stunning" Lou Reed exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (Variety)
• A memorial show for the late Howie Pyro at the Bowery Ballroom on July 23 (Official site)
• Court tosses the new Assembly district maps, though it won't impact this year's races (Gothamist)
• More on Carlina Rivera's Congressional bid (Gotham Gazette)
• Spectacular pics of the red-tailed hawklets in Tompkins Square Park (Laura Goggin Photography)
• The team behind the 11th Street Bar is reopening Mugs in Williamsburg (Greenpointers)
• The unlikely success story of Manhattan's only Burmese restaurant — Little Myanmar on Second Street (Saveur ... previously on EVG)
• Let's check out the East Village closet of Sunflower Bean's Julia Cumming (Coveteur ... previously on EVG)
• NYC's burger shops are weighing how to respond to calls to boycott the company behind Martin's Potato Rolls (Eater)
• The "intrepid playfulness" at Nudibranch on First Avenue (The New Yorker)
• Henry Winkler meets fans while dining at Katz's (Thrillist)
• A look at the new hotel Nine Orchard on the Lower East Side (Vogue)
Yo WTF!? These people just came over the Williamsburg bridge on top of the train. pic.twitter.com/osEtX4a0cp
— GOOSE (@GooseyMane) June 11, 2022