Your NYC week in review.

Food writer Andrea Strong beckons us to come aboard Fireboat, a decommissioned FDNY ship offering frozen cocktails, starting in May at the Brooklyn Bridge Park waterfront.

Like it or not, froyo is the hottest accessory in NYC right now. From Birdie's to Mimi's, it feels like a new chain is opening each week. "How differentiated can each cup really be?" asks food blogger Rachel Brotman.

The original New York night market returns to Flushing on Saturday from 4pm to midnight, featuring 70+ diverse food vendors and musical acts.

Ryan Sutton's economic analysis of how beef inflation is forcing NYC restaurants to either raise prices to the point of absurdity or quietly retire it from menus.

Golden Child offers an inventive adult-oriented take on nostalgic childhood treats above the Hotel Park Ave.

Queens museum MoMA PS1 is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, and it's commemorating the milestone with a full slate of programming and free admission for all visitors.

Hakim Bishara takes us behind the scenes in the art studio of NYC's first lady.

The monthly gallery guide from Two Coats of Paint, an NYC blog focused primarily on painting and independent galleries.

Kicking off an ongoing partnership between BAM and the National Theatre, director Robert Hastie brings his witty, contemporary take on Hamlet across the Atlantic for a four-week run, featuring Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi).

Five nights of jazz at the Django, Roxy Bar, and Club Room at the Soho Grand Hotel, including free weekend afternoon shows.

Theater critic Sara Holdren muses on what Arthur Miller's classic 1949 play, now returned to Broadway, can still tell us about the American Dream in 2026.

The intimate natural wine bar slash night club returned this week after a long winter hibernation.

Thirty-four thousand doormen and building workers nearly walked off the job last week over wages and health benefits, but the union struck a tentative deal on Friday.

A tax on vacant luxury apartments owned by part-time residents was a fringe policy idea for years — now it's being seriously floated as part of the city's budget solution.

"A few years back, a groundswell of Brooklyn parents in District 13 wanted to ditch gifted and talented classes, concerned about sorting and segregating children starting in kindergarten."

Council Speaker Julie Menin announced a budget proposal to expand Fair Fares — the city's half-price transit program — to fully cover nearly one million low-income New Yorkers' subway and bus rides.

NYC builders are quietly laying a second tech layer around the World Cup experience, from AI-generated 3D avatars to digital twins of the stadium itself.

New York-based Artsy merged with Artnet and then let dozens of workers go, primarily in their art journalism department.

NYC-based Crosby raised a $60M Series B round to scale up its AI legal platform, an example of AI verticalization disrupting traditional service industries.

Register to attend live demos and network with founders, investors, and builders from companies like Justworks, Clay, Cognition, and more.

New York state installed ASML lithography equipment at the Albany NanoTech Complex as part of a $10B public-private semiconductor push, aiming to produce 25% of US advanced chips within 5 years.