James Ramsay

Because if a billionaire isn't home to run the water, stuff builds up, here are your empty links: BrooklynVegan gutted, Sarah Jessica Parker's Spicy Sauvy B, loud cicadas and more.

Armed with a close-up image of the bolt and two hours to be out of the office, could we find this historic artifact?

Because it's costing the state more than the portraits of the previous three governors combined, here are your early links: Desperate schemes to avoid the pied-à-terre tax, New York City Marathon entry policy change, "Love Is Blind" casting in NYC and more.

We crossed the river and met up with the one person who has the answer.

Because Japanese grocery stores have an 8 p.m. discount, here are your early links: Storm resiliency upgrades, 30 dead sharks mysteriously washed up on the Jersey Shore, Big Boy train and more.

Because it happened in Brooklyn Bridge Park, here are your early links: Elizabeth Street Garden party, New York Harbor boating woes, some people really hate jeans and more.

Because Garden Staters in their teens and twenties can't stop injecting their faces, here are your early links: AirTag in a stolen penis sculpture, Mamdani's new bike helmet, river otter spotted in the Bronx and more.

Because partying in your apartment is cheaper and a whole lot of fun, here are your early links: Rent-stabilized apartment hunt, Rep. Rob Menendez is rockin', leaf-peeping map just dropped and more.

There's never been a better time to be in New York City if you want pizza that's not from here.

For the week's Looped In newsletter, we talked to New Yorkers and the sanitation department to see how things were going with the new "badge of shame" parking stickers.