News & Brews #1: Is this an all-time New York summer?
The Knicks won their first championship in 53 years. Taylor Swift was married at Madison Square Garden. The mayor of New York jumped into a public pool wearing a suit and tie, and a rabbi in Riverdale celebrated a Swiftie Shabbat with bedazzled challah. By midsummer, The Associated Press had declared it "the Summer of New York."
Then July soured the mood: an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease on the Upper East Side, wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada, a second punishing heat wave. The season, one city councilman concluded, was "ending with diarrhea and wildfires."
Was this an all-time New York summer, and what does the answer say about the country it happened in? A nation that turned 250 this year in the sourest mood ever recorded watched its largest city stage a season of collective joy. Is New York an exception, or a sign of what's coming for the rest of the country?
Brock Colyar, the New York Magazine writer who chronicles the city's nightlife, and Isabel Togoh, a Forbes editor who also writes the Substack newsletter Know the Score NYC, will discuss.
🎟️ Tickets: $15, and your first drink is on us
📵 Phones away the whole night
Why phone-free?
Newsreel exists because the algorithmic feed broke how we understand the world. News and Brews is the opposite.
Agenda
6:30 PM: Doors open. Grab a drink, find a seat, phones away. Pick your side of the room.
6:50 PM: Main event.
7:30 PM: NYC-themed trivia.
7:45 PM: Mingle, meet the writers, grab one more round.
Location: Crystal Lake Brooklyn, 647 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211