Rendering of 99 Hudson Street via China Overseas America, Inc. (L); Photo via Queens International Night Market on Facebook

• Public observation decks at New York City skyscrapers are having a moment. [WSJ]
• Roughly 33,000 new apartments will be delivered in Manhattan by 2021. [Crain’s]
• MTA hires two dozen station managers to keep platforms clean and enhance straphanger customer service. [MTA]
• The Queens International Night Market returns for its fall season this Saturday. [TimeOut]
• A new pop-art museum in the Greenwich Village highlights the “ineffectiveness of broken windows policing” with performances and installations. [CityLab]
• More than 320,000 high school students in NYC will receive S’well reusable bottles with the goal of displacing more than 54 million single-use plastic bottles. [Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office]
• 99 Hudson Street surpasses 30 Hudson Street as the tallest tower in New Jersey. [YIMBY]

Via 6sqft (L); Via WNYC/Flickr (R)

• The New York Blood Center is holding nearly 100 blood drives across the NYC metro region to honor those who lost their lives on 9/11. [Metro NY]
• First came the two Targets, now a Marshalls is opening next to Katz’s. Is the Lower East Side “already gone” to gentrification? [NYDN]
• A guide for NYC residents to voting in Thursday’s primaries. [NYC Votes]
• 6sqft photographers James and Karla Murray have an Instagram of vintage storefronts that is pure NYC nostalgia. [Vogue]
• Speaking of storefronts… here’s a panoramic view of the staggering numbers of vacant storefronts along the city’s once-popular retail corridors. [NYT]
• London has tested out several ways to cool its Tube stations. Can the MTA follow suit? [Vice]

Bedford Union Armory Redevelopment rendering by JM Zoning; A conceptual rendering of the pool via Brooklyn Bridge Park (R)

• Governor Cuomo announced that his office will fund the $15 million Carey Gabay Community Center at Crown Heights’ Bedford-Union Armory development. [Curbed]
• In 2011, the city introduced green cabs as a way to service areas where yellow cabs typically wouldn’t travel. That same year, Uber began operating in NYC. [NYT]
• The Hunters Point South ferry landing has been out of service for almost all of August, and it’s probably not reopening any time soon. [LIC Post]
• In the most bizarre marketing campaign ever, Adidas released a new sneaker inspired by NYC bodegas because they’re “vibrantly colored.” [Sneaker News]
• Sixty-three years after it was launched as an alternative weekly newspaper, the Village Voice has ceased all operations. [Gothamist]
• The MTA added permanent “Respect” tributes to Aretha Franklin at the Franklin Avenue subway station. [Untapped Cities]
• On September 12th and 16th, Brooklyn Bridge Park will hold community meetings about their plan to build a pool at Squibb Park. [BK Bridge Park]

A photo of the Malbone Street Wreck on Nov. 1, 1918, courtesy of the New York Transit Museum (L); Via NYC Ferry (R)

• On Nov. 1, 1918, 100 lives were lost when a Brooklyn Rapid Transit employee lost control of a train at the Prospect Park station. The event was so horrific that the name of the street was changed so New Yorkers would not be reminded of it. [NYP]
• Eight unique ways to celebrate Labor Day weekend in NYC. [Untapped Cities]
• The connection is unclear, but SpikedSeltzer is giving out 60 bicycles between today and Thursday to residents affected by the L train shutdown. [Bushwick Daily]
• The city released a framework for the Gowanus rezoning in June, but local developers are concerned it doesn’t allow for great enough density to offset construction costs. [Crain’s]
• The NYC Ferry’s Lower East Side route, the sixth and final route, launches today. It connects Long Island City, the LES, and Lower Manhattan in 32 minutes. [Office of the Mayor]
• A new study shows that conditions at NYCHA units have remained in a deteriorated state over the past four years, while private apartments have improved. [NYDN]
• Foundation work has begun for Thomas Heatherwick’s High Line-straddling “bubble” condo towers. [CityRealty]

Via Pexels (L) ; Flower District via Flickr/cc (R)

• The city will preserve 669 Section 8 apartments for 40 years. They’re located in “high-cost neighborhoods”–Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village–“where the majority of similar buildings have converted to market-rate.” [NYC HPD]
• Twenty percent of dwelling units currently under construction in New York City are in a hotel. [TRD]
• Once a $120 million engine, NYC’s Flower District is being killed off by competition, construction and ICE. [Bloomberg]
• The Museum of Ice Cream, the Museum of Pizza, the Color Factory–how do the city’s new influx of pop-up museums find real estate? [Commercial Observer]
• Essex Crossing’s Target is now open! [The Lo-Down]
• And so is the new Four Seasons restaurant after a two-year hiatus and a $30 million buildout. [Gothamist]

NJ Transit via Wiki Commons (L); Watchtower sign via Wiki Commons (R)

• NJ Transit admitted to extremely poor service this summer–but warned that it probably won’t end until the fall. [NYT]
• Go inside the world Of NYC “canners,” who survive by collecting recyclable cans and bottles. [Gothamist]
• And meet the Brooklyn can collector who’s worth $8 million. [NYP]
• The iconic Watchtower sign that stood atop the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ former Brooklyn Heights HQ was illegal for its entire half-century existence says the DOB. [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
• Mayor ee Blasio shifted his plan for a 50-story apartment tower on a Hell’s Kitchen NYCHA parking lot from 100% affordable to 75% luxury. [NYDN]
• The Yankees are the only major league team never to have held a pride night at a game, so to mark next year’s 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, they’re planning a special event. [NYT]
  How Brooklyn changed the neighborhood restaurant across the country. [Bloomberg]

Google Street View of 666 Fifth Avenue (L); Coney Island’s Ocean Dreams development via Hill West Architects (R)

• With a wave of bland real estate development, will Coney Island become just like much of the rest of the city–gentrified, but with rides? [The Bridge]
• For two centuries, New Yorkers have loved giant oysters. [Atlas Obscura]
• Kushner Companies finally unloaded the troubled 666 Fifth Avenue to Brookfield, whose 99-year lease will likely give the family enough to pay off its $1.1+ billion debt on the building. [WSJ]
• How Google Maps renames neighborhoods. [NYT]
• Trump International Hotel at Columbus Circle had a surprise revenue jump this spring thanks to a visit by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. [Washington Post]
• Construction is underway at the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Admiral’s Row site, which means Wegmans is one step closer to reality. [Brownstoner]
• All the restaurants in NYC ditching plastic straws. [Grub Street]

Via NYC Ferry (L); key lime pie via Flickr/cc (R)

• The NYC Ferry’s Soundview and Lower East Side routes will launch on August 15th and 29th. [NYC Ferry]
• What it’s like to live in an SRO, NYC’s original “micro-housing.” [NYP]
• There is a fierce debate going on after a cookbook author claimed key lime pie was invented by the Borden condensed milk company at their Madison Avenue test kitchen in 1931. [Gothamist]
• Some of the city’s most contaminated water tanks are at NYCHA buildings, so why was this erased from inspection reports? [City & State]
• The 24th annual “Greenest Block in Brooklyn” award goes to the stretch of Lefferts Avenue from Bedford to Rogers Avenues in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. [amNY]
• Vote for Central Park’s cutest dogs to make it into their 2019 calendar. [Central Park Conservancy]
• There’s an Instagram account documenting the apartments of rent-stabilized tenants living in the East Village. [EV Greive]