Good morning! Wishing you a happy Saturday, May 19th, 2018 from all of us at Viewing NYC!

Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.

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.

• 6sqft ⇒ Proposal Calls for a Floating Pedestrian Bridge to Connect Greenpoint and Long Island City
• Brooklyn Based ⇒ A Glass Museum Floats Into Brooklyn
• Brooklyn Paper ⇒ Sounds of Summer: The Best Summer Concerts in Brooklyn
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The Sullivan, Randolph & Budd Bldg - 80-82 White Street
• Gothamist ⇒ Brooklyn Residents Call for More Ambitious Survival Plan at L Train Town Hall
• Jackson Heights Post ⇒ Join Celebration of Jackson Heights' History Next Month | Jackson Heights Post
• New York Times ⇒ What to Pack in Your New York City Survival Kit
• The Bronx Socialite ⇒ Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai’i Comes to NYBG
• Thrillist ⇒ Everything You Absolutely Have to Do in NYC This Weekend
• Tribeca Citizen ⇒ New Kid on the Block: Twenty First Gallery
• Untapped Cities ⇒ Step Aboard the GlassBarge From Corning at Brooklyn Bridge Park for Live Glass Blowing

There is endless analysis of what has caused the New York City subway system's current financial woes. In this recent video from Reason, learn some history behind fare subsidization and how reversing it could potentially solve the MTA's problem.

The political response to this crisis has been mainly to devise new ways to collect more money for this troubled operation, such as a new "millionaires tax" or by imposing additional tolls and surcharges on cars. But a major lesson from the first 114 years of subway history is that giving the MTA more money from outside sources is like bringing an alcoholic to an open bar. The path to real reform and accountability is to make the subway live off its customers once and for all.

Check out the accompanying article to learn more about this proposal.