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Issue #001 · March 22, 2026

Your NYC week, all in one place.

The best of what happened and what's coming up, curated for the people who live here.

🖥 Tech & Startups


This Week's Reads

NYC Cybersecurity Startup Onyx Launches with $40M to Put a Leash on AI Agents

The idea that the AI agents running your company might need their own security layer finally has a well-funded NYC company behind it — Onyx, built by ex-Unit 8200 veterans, is betting that keeping AI agents supervised is the next big problem to solve.

via SecurityWeek
Legal AI Startup Legora Hits $5.55B Valuation After $550M Series D

NYC's Legora just tripled its valuation in one raise — the legal profession's reckoning with AI is officially being funded at Big Law prices, even if the tool is theoretically there to replace them.

via Bloomberg
Household Robotics Startup Sunday Is Now a Unicorn. Your Roomba Has Anxiety.

Sunday's $165M Series B takes the humanoid home-robot company past a $1B valuation, with beta deliveries of its "Memo" robot expected by late 2026 — which means by next winter, some very early adopter in Brooklyn will have a robot doing their dishes.

via TechCrunch
NYC Healthtech Conduit Is Using AI to Fight Insurance Bureaucracy for Medicare Patients

Conduit Health closed a $17M Series A to keep scaling its platform that handles the nightmare of getting insurance to cover medical supplies — a problem so unglamorous that 50,000 patients are apparently thrilled someone finally addressed it.

via PR Newswire
NYC Is Planning a Selective AI High School. The City's AI Rules Are Still Not Ready.

The Department of Education is moving ahead with a new tech-focused high school meant to produce "builders and ethical users of AI," even as civil society groups keep pointing out the city doesn't have actual guardrails for AI use in schools yet.

via Gothamist

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🎨 Art & Culture


This Week's Reads

The New Museum Is Finally Opening Its Massive New Building This Weekend

After years of construction and considerable hype, the New Museum opens its 60,000-square-foot expansion on Saturday — free admission all weekend, 200+ artists in the inaugural show, and a genuine reason to brave the Bowery crowds.

via Time Out New York
MoMA Opens Its Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Exhibition This Saturday

The museum is opening what's expected to be its biggest show of the year — a deep look at both Kahlo and Rivera that goes well beyond the greatest-hits prints your college roommate had on their wall.

via Hyperallergic
Two 30-Foot Reflective Steel Sculptures Just Appeared in Flatiron and the Meatpacking District

Charlotte Colbert's "Chasing Rainbows" dropped a pair of monumental mirrored sculptures on Manhattan this week — the kind of public art that makes you stop mid-commute and feel briefly like you live in a real city.

via Time Out New York
The Jewish Museum Is Showing Paul Klee's "Angelus Novus" — Walter Benjamin's Favorite Painting

The Jewish Museum's new Klee retrospective opens Thursday, including the haunting 1920 watercolor that Benjamin famously interpreted as the "angel of history" being propelled backward into the future — still feels relevant, somehow.

via Hyperallergic
It's Art Fair Week: Affordable Art Fair and Outsider Art Fair Are Both Happening Right Now

Two of the more approachable NYC fairs are running simultaneously — the Affordable Art Fair at Starrett-Lehigh through Sunday, the Outsider Art Fair at Metropolitan Pavilion — which means this weekend is legitimately a good time to buy something instead of just looking.

via Artnet News

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🎭 Entertainment


This Week's Reads

NYC Cinema Week Is This Week — 5,000 Free Tickets, 30+ Independent Theaters

The city's inaugural Cinema Week runs March 20–26 with deeply discounted screenings and 5,000 free tickets distributed across independent theaters citywide — a genuine excuse to finally see that film you've been meaning to watch since it had Oscar buzz.

via NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment
Lady Gaga's MAYHEM Ball Kicks Off at MSG This Week

Gaga plays Madison Square Garden Thursday and Friday night as part of her massive new tour — tickets for the back half of her run are still available if you move fast and are willing to sacrifice your dinner-out budget for the month.

via Broadway World / MSG
John Lithgow Plays Roald Dahl in "Giant" — Opens Sunday at Music Box Theatre

The new Broadway play "Giant" about Roald Dahl's complicated legacy opens Sunday with John Lithgow in the title role, and based on early word it does not shy away from the complicated parts — which is exactly what Broadway should be doing more of.

via New York Theater
Drag Reimagining "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" Now In Previews at Broadhurst

The much-buzzed retelling of Cats with an all-Black and queer cast began previews this week, and even skeptics of the source material are finding it hard to argue with a production that sounds like it finally figured out what the show is supposed to be about.

via New York Theater
Rocky Horror Show Returns to Studio 54 Starting Thursday

A new production of The Rocky Horror Show begins previews at Studio 54 this Thursday — the venue that once hosted the actual debauchery the show fantasizes about, which at minimum makes it the most thematically appropriate casting decision of the season.

via New York Theater

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🍜 Food & Drink


This Week's Reads

The 2026 James Beard NYC Semifinalists Are Out — Here's Who to Root For

The semifinalist list is always the most interesting moment in the Beard cycle — before the politics and the campaigning, it's just a snapshot of what the city's food community actually thinks is excellent right now.

via Time Out New York
Two-Michelin-Star Chef Gabriel Kreuther Just Opened a Live-Fire Brasserie in Hudson Yards

Kreuther's new restaurant Saverne brings a modern Alsatian brasserie to Hudson Yards — a neighborhood that has been valiantly trying to develop a food identity, and finally has a serious chef taking a crack at it.

via Time Out New York
Ugly Baby Is Back — The Beloved Williamsburg Thai Spot Just Reopened as Ugly Baby 2.0

The Carroll Gardens cult Thai restaurant relocated and relaunched in Williamsburg with an updated menu and the same commitment to heat levels that made its regulars so annoyingly evangelical about it.

via The Infatuation
Bar Susanne Opens in Williamsburg With a Riverfront Patio and a Serious Martini List

The new Williamsburg bar at 6 River St is positioning itself as the answer to "where do I go when I want a very good drink and can see water," with a seafood-forward menu and a martini selection that reportedly justified the rent.

via The Infatuation
JAPAN Fes Is Back Next Weekend — Takoyaki, Yakisoba, and 30+ Events

The massive annual Japanese street food festival returns March 28 to Astor Place before moving to Midtown on March 29, and if you've never had fresh takoyaki from a street stall in the East Village, this is a pretty good time to fix that.

via Time Out New York

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🗳 Politics & Civic


This Week's Reads

The City Is Proposing 100-Foot Protest Buffer Zones Around Schools and Houses of Worship

Civil liberties groups are sounding the alarm over a City Council proposal that would create buffer zones limiting demonstrations near schools and religious sites — the kind of restriction that sounds reasonable in the abstract until you remember what protest restrictions have historically been used to suppress.

via Gothamist
TWU Local 100 Is Suing the MTA Over Subway Booth Closures — Again

The transit workers' union filed another lawsuit this week claiming the MTA closed subway station booths without the public hearings legally required first, and also that the closures disproportionately harm riders with disabilities — two fairly strong arguments that deserve more attention than they're getting.

via THE CITY
Mayor Mamdani Creates NYC's First Standalone Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs

The new office will be led by Taylor Brown, making her the first transgender person to lead a New York City office or agency — a genuinely notable first in a city that has not always moved as fast on these things as its reputation suggests.

via NYC Mayor's Office
Mamdani Adds 1,000+ Free Pre-K Seats Across All Five Boroughs

The mayor announced a major expansion of 3-K programs reaching 56 ZIP codes, with Governor Hochul also coming in on free 2-K seats — the kind of unglamorous but substantive childcare policy that doesn't trend but actually matters.

via NYC Mayor's Office
City Council Found Nearly $1.7 Billion the Mayor's Budget Didn't Account For

The Council's budget analysts identified $1.4B in debt service adjustments and additional resources that could fund city services without touching the rainy day fund — a finding that tends to go unnoticed by everyone except the people who will spend the next six months arguing about it.

via NYC City Council

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🏃 Sports & Fitness


This Week's Reads

30,000 People Ran the NYC Half Marathon Last Sunday. Here's What Happened.

The United Airlines NYC Half went off last Sunday with 30,000 runners crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, running through Times Square, and finishing in Central Park — a reminder that this city contains a subculture of people who voluntarily do this at 7am, and they are thriving.

via NYRR
Josh Hart Dropped 33 Points on 12-of-13 Shooting and the Knicks Are Looking Serious

Hart's near-perfect shooting performance in the 136-110 blowout of Indiana on Monday is exactly the kind of game that makes Knicks fans — a people conditioned by decades of heartbreak — start to quietly believe this year might actually be different.

via NBA.com
Igor Shesterkin Made 46 Saves and the Rangers Have Won 4 in a Row

Shesterkin's performance against Minnesota last week — stopping 46 of 48 shots in a 4-2 win — was the kind of goaltending display that makes you understand why the Rangers built their entire franchise identity around one man's ability to stand in a crease.

via NHL.com
St. John's Got a No. 5 Seed in the NCAA Tournament — Queens Is Locked In

The Red Storm earned the program's best seed in years and will enter March Madness with genuine upset potential — a fact that will be treated with cautious optimism by everyone from Queens who's learned not to celebrate too early.

via amNewYork
NYCFC Opens Its Season with a 3-1 Win Over Colorado — Nicolas Fernández Scores Twice

The Cityzens look sharp in their home opener at Yankee Stadium, with Fernández's two-goal first half setting the tone for a comfortable win and making a strong early case for why this might finally be NYCFC's year to push deep.

via NYCFC / amNewYork

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