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 ⇒ A Rare Chance to Drink Beer Whiskey Inside of Some 160-Year-Old ‘Cheese Tunnels’
• Bklyner ⇒ Inside the Flatbush Churro Wars
• Bowery Boogie ⇒ Shepard Fairey Stencils Debbie Harry Mural Across From Long-Gone CBGB
• Brooklyn Bridge Park ⇒ Brooklyn Oyster Social
• Brooklyn Magazine ⇒ You've Been (Soft) Served: Low-End Treat Goes Gourmet in NYC
• Bushwick Daily ⇒ OddFellows Ice Cream Will Make a Bushwick Debut in 2018
• Curbed NY ⇒ The Legendary Plaza Hotel Is, Once Again, Up for Sale
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The John L. Crawford Mansion - 24 East 82nd Street
• EV Grieve ⇒ Report: The Village Voice Is Ending Its Print Edition
• Eater NY ⇒ Popular Soup Dumpling Shop the Bao Nixes Flagship Dish
• Guest of a Guest ⇒ NYC's New Oscar Wilde Bar Is as Glamorous as You Would Expect
• LTV Squad ⇒ Croton Aqueduct: NYC’s Longest Abandoned Tunnel.
• New York Times ⇒ Smokers Are Welcome at This Upper East Side Bar
• New York YIMBY ⇒ 701 Seventh Avenue’s 18,000-Square Foot LED Screen Goes Live, Times Square
• StreetEasy Blog ⇒ NYC's Most Dog-Friendly Neighborhoods
• The Lo-Down ⇒ Iconic Cup & Saucer Sign Removed From Canal Street Storefront
• Untapped Cities ⇒ 2017 NYC Dîner en Blanc Pop Up Party Returns to Lincoln Center With 5000 Guests
• Yelp ⇒ Oyster Happy Hours for All

Coming this Fall to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a new exhibit will feature a number of works from Michelango Buonarotti including sculptures, drawings, and paintings. Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer will appear in Gallery 899 at the museum from November 3rd, 2017 through February 12th, 2018. Get a sneak preview of the exhibit in this short video from The Met.

This exhibition will present a stunning range and number of works by the artist: approximately 150 of his drawings, three of his marble sculptures, his earliest painting, his wood architectural model for a chapel vault, as well as a substantial body of complementary works by other artists for comparison and context. Among the extraordinary international loans are the complete series of masterpiece drawings he created for his friend Tommaso de' Cavalieri and a monumental cartoon for his last fresco in the Vatican Palace. Selected from 54 public and private collections in the United States and Europe, the exhibition will examine Michelangelo's rich legacy as a supreme draftsman and designer.

Because building new docks and ferry terminals is much easier than opening new subway stations, the NYC Ferry expansion on the East River is moving along smoothly with minimal delays, opening with new service heading to Roosevelt Island and Astoria next week via the Astoria Route.

NYC Ferry unveiled its schedule for the Astoria Route today that will make its debut next week. The new ‘Astoria Route’ will begin service on August 29 and it will connect Astoria at the Hallets Cove dock to Roosevelt Island, to Long Island City at Gantry Plaza, to East 34th Street in Manhattan, and down to Wall Street. The route will take approximately 45 minutes.

The ferry will run every 25 minutes during rush hours, and every 50 minutes other times. Will this help your commute?