There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately.

• Bedford + Bowery ⇒ Cutting-Edge Cacti, Once More in the Lower East Side
• Bowery Boogie ⇒ On Its 130th Birthday, Katz Deli Offers Meat Subscription Service
• Brooklyn Based ⇒ Party Under the Manhattan Bridge
• Curbed NY ⇒ NYC Subway Ads Celebrating Pride Month, Combating Bigotry Are Back
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ Horsehair, Arson and Narcotics - 87 Walker Street
• Harlem World Magazine ⇒ SummerStage Is Great Time for Family Day in Central Park
• Hey Ridge ⇒ The Fort Hamilton Armybase Should Close!
• Mott Haven Herald ⇒ Waterfront Development Proposals Stir Concern
• My Inwood ⇒ Old Images Needed for Lost Inwood Photo History Book
• New York Times ⇒ April Bloomfield Leaves Spotted Pig in Split From Ken Friedman
• New York YIMBY ⇒ “The Chateau” at 991 Ocean Avenue Approaches Full Completion in Flatbush, Brooklyn
• The Bridge ⇒ Williamsburg Finally Gets Its Very Own Food Hall
• The Lo-Down ⇒ Patricia Field Opens Shop in Seward Park Co-Op on the Lower East Side
• Thrillist ⇒ The Best Pools for Beating the Heat in NYC This Summer

Voula is a new Greek restaurant in Greenwich Village that focuses on serving a large selection of Mezedes (shareable appetizers) and Paradosiaka (traditional plates). In this video from our friends at Insider, see how one of their dishes contains an entire lobster as a topping!

Voula NYC serves Astako Makaronada, a pasta dish topped with an entire lobster. The Greek restaurant boils the lobster for five minutes before mixing in spaghetti, feta cheese, and Greek spices. Each week, the popular restaurant goes through about 70 lobsters.

It's no secret that 1980's New York City was not a very nice place to be. The streets were filled with trash and graffiti, crime was rampant, public areas were underfunded and neglected. One of these neglected areas was Central Park, though you would not know it today. For almost 4 decades, the Central Park Conservancy has overseen the recovery, restoration, and conservation of our City's crown-jewel greenspace. In this short video from the New York Post, take a look at just how much the conservancy has turned the park around.

Central Park has come a long way, baby. Stunning pics released by the Central Park Conservancy show New York’s iconic, 840-acre plot during the bleak ‘80s era.