Uber Offering $5 Rides in Light of L Train Shutdown; What Is the Bronx, Anyway?

• Why is Chelsea’s Ehrich Building covered in letter K’s? [Forgotten NY]
• Starting tonight, the MTA will close the L line between Manhattan and Williamsburg. In light of the major inconvenience, Uber is offering $5 rides between neighborhoods along the shuttered line. [NYDN]
• You can buy a $195 knife made from Coney Island boardwalk wood. [Curbed]
• Looking for an escape this weekend? Here are ten beautiful places that don’t feel like you’re in NYC. [Spoiled NYC]
• Can a new Netlflix show about New York in the 1970s, whose central story line will involve the early days of hip-hop in the Bronx, answer people’s questions about the borough? [NY Mag]

Images: Uber (L); © Thomas X. Casey, BronxNYC (R)