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Lucky Creamery opened last weekend on Manhattan Avenue, in the old Euro Chemist space, working in the tradition of the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory. It arrives the same summer the froyo shops reached Bedford, where Fira is open and Birdie's is close behind.

Frenzie is a pizza and wine bar on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights from Brendan Kelley and Daniel Grossman, Roberta's and L'Industrie alums who already run Confidant next door. It opens mid-August, doing New York style pies plus small plates and soft serve.

Burmese Bites is the first permanent room Myo Lin Thway and Rebecca Nant have had, after two decades of church fairs, a pushcart and two stalls that closed. The chicken curry palata costs $12.

Good Time Country Buffet is a $27 all-you-can-eat Southern fried chicken room opening in the East Village this month. Emma Orlow's piece is really about Junho Choi, who designed it and also built Kisa's worn-in 1980s Seoul set.

Hochul signed a bill letting licensed cannabis businesses sell at farmers markets and community events, so the heirloom tomato stand may soon have company. Legal sales passed $400M through March, but only 47% of licensed sellers say they are turning a profit.

The Morgan has the three oldest surviving tarot decks in the world, 15th-century Milanese ones commissioned by the Dukes of Milan. The second half of the show is about what the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck did to modern artists, Breton and Leonora Carrington among them.

The Madonna of the Yarnwinder has hung in Gallery 609 since spring, on long-term loan from Ken Griffin, with no announcement. The advisor who spotted it, Evan Beard: "It was interesting that room 609 was empty. No influencers."

The Transit Museum is running vintage Brightliner subway cars out to Rockaway Park on Sunday, August 16, leaving Manhattan at 10 and heading back at 3. You get the beach and the boardwalk in between, for $60.

American Wood Column Corporation in Williamsburg is closing, and roughly 6,000 handmade molds go with it, some over 200 years old. Owner Thomas Lupo, whose grandfather founded the place, is retiring; their work is in "The Godfather" and on the "Exorcist" stairway.

Andrew Stein's new play is about an ethics professor pulled into a tech founder's AI experiment. It opened August 4 at the Signature with Conrad Ricamora and John David Washington, and Ricamora's argument for staging it is that theater is where "the audience is breathing the same air."

Paranormal Activity starts previews at the August Wilson on August 14, an original story rather than an adaptation. Punchdrunk founder Felix Barrett directs, with illusions by the team behind Stranger Things: The First Shadow.

Public Service is the free outdoor party DJs Mickey Perez and Cesar Toribio have run for five years across Herbert Von King, Steuben and Maria Hernandez parks. Gothamist reports it through the regulars, including a dancer two years past a double hip replacement.

Hell Gate's Cultural Capital column on why the subway showtime crews disappeared from a city that used to argue about them constantly, and what took their place in the car.

Daniel Mendelsohn translated the Odyssey, and he argues that Nolan gets Homer's braided structure right but loses the man inside it, trading Odysseus's wit and charm for another guilt-wracked Nolan protagonist.

Senate Education chair Shelley Mayer wrote a bill barring AI humanoids from teaching, tutoring or grading, after a district near Buffalo planned to deploy a silicone-skinned Realbotix assistant named Sally and then paused in July. Mayer calls it "replacing a human being with a machine."

Shahana Hanif's bill would ban facial recognition in businesses open to the public, and 26 of 51 Council members have signed on. Wegmans started collecting faces, voices and eye scans in January, and a 42-story FiDi tower pitched face-scan entry to prospective tenants.

WalkNYC is Joe Puccio's app for tracking which of the city's roughly 120,000 blocks you have walked. The Department of Transportation already uses that name on its wayfinding signs and sent a cease-and-desist, though the two sides are reportedly negotiating rather than forcing a rebrand.

The Brooklyn Bridge and Chambers Street complex averaged 96 degrees this summer, so the MTA is studying a system that captures waste heat off the trains and pipes it into municipal buildings to warm them in winter. The feasibility study costs $800,000 and design work starts in 2027.

State Senator Erik Bottcher and Assemblymember Tony Simone want to replace the AIDS-crisis-era ban on adult saunas with a licensing framework, arguing that regulated venues do more for public health than unregulated ones. New HIV diagnoses in the city are down 70% since 2001.

Two tenant associations say the NYPD wired nearly 20,000 public-housing security cameras into its live surveillance system without telling anyone, building it inside Big Apple Connect, the $100M free-internet program. City law requires the police to disclose new surveillance tools publicly, and the suit says they never did.

Ben Wolf's documentary follows the grassroots campaign to cut Greenpoint's McGuinness Boulevard from four lanes to two, with David Byrne and former DOT commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. It screens August 12 at SVA Theatre, followed by a panel with Families for Safe Streets.

Fifty-two officials in an administration elected on fixing the buses and subways get a city-funded driver to their door. Scott Stringer had one for sixteen years, so this long predates Mamdani, who acknowledges the tension and still bikes sometimes.

New York City's December 31 cutoff is among the latest in the country, and about a third of kids start school unusually young. A 2020 IBO analysis found that November and December babies were 65% more likely to be labeled as having a learning disability.

After a law forced the apps to surface the tip button at checkout, the average tip per delivery went from $1.18 to $2.29. Order volume went up rather than down, which is the opposite of what the apps argued in court.