Early Addition: How The Subway Got So Sluggish

by Ben Yakas

Published May 9, 2018

Modified May 9, 2018

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This seems like a pretty accurate headline: "New York Is the Most Politically Toxic Place in America."
The New Yorker has several must-read stories on the revelation that a company controlled by Michael Cohen was paid millions by companies including AT&T, multinational pharmaceutical firm Novartis, and a company linked to a Russian oligarch named Viktor Vekselberg.
Cardi B tweeted then deleted comments about the post-Met Gala incident in which her security team beat up an autograph-seeker: "i don’t know what are people’s intentions sooo i Be careful .Why can’t people respect that?"
Taylor Swift opened up her Reputation tour by throwing shade at Kim Kardashian.
Police are looking for a man who assaulted a teenager outside a Queens yeshiva and called him a “Jew boy."
The NY Times on how two crucial MTA decisions pushed the subway into crisis.
Pilot season is the Hunger Games of the television world.
Watch Sparkle Hard: The Movie, a 10-minute behind-the-scenes documentary about the new Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks album.
A woman came forward to describe a bad date with disgraced former NY AG Eric Schneiderman.
And finally, pet raccoons are apparently more needy than dogs: