NYPD police dogs are patrolling the Paris Olympics

Plus: Nearly all NYC shootings confined to 4% of city blocks [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [France hires the NYPD's police dogs to patrol the Paris Olympics]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ☀️ Sunny, highs in the mid 80s. It's Friday in New York City, where we're momentarily down a few police canines. That's because an unspecified number of NYPD bomb-sniffing dogs are on a two-week business trip to Paris, where they've been hired by the French government to protect the Olympic Games. [Here's what makes these dogs special enough to fly across the Atlantic Ocean to do the job](. And here's what else is happening: - A new Gothamist analysis of NYPD data reveals that nearly all of the city’s shootings dating back to 2020 [have occurred on just 4% of the city’s 120,000 blocks](. - [This map]( illustrates just how concentrated gun violence has been on select blocks while the rest of the city has remained remarkably safe. - A group of local advocates [filed a pair of lawsuits against Gov. Kathy Hochul]( yesterday, claiming she lacked the legal authority to order the MTA to pause congestion pricing. - Homeless families without young children are having an [increasingly difficult time getting shelter beds]( according to a new analysis of city data. - The New York state health department [has given "conditional approval" to close]( Mount Sinai’s Beth Israel hospital in Lower Manhattan — but there’s still no closure date, and a lawsuit to keep the hospital open remains ongoing. - Officials in Princeton, New Jersey, have approved a plan to rezone part of Princeton Theological Seminary’s property, clearing the way for a local developer to build 238 apartments, about [a fifth of which will be accessible to low- and moderate-income residents](. - The New York attorney general's office on Thursday [released security camera footage and body-worn camera video]( of the fatal police shooting of an armed man in Brooklyn on Mother’s Day. - Summer in New York City always smells like hot garbage. [This year, it's even worse](. - [Subway delays due to fallen trees and branches]( on outdoor tracks, especially on the B and Q lines south of Prospect Park, are up this year. - A woman who tried blocking patients from entering a Lower Manhattan Planned Parenthood in 2020 has been [sentenced to more than three years in prison](. - Residents of Bayside, Queens, have gotten increasingly [annoyed by planes flying out of LaGuardia]( on a flight path that was created in 2012 as a way to avoid disrupting the U.S. Open tennis tournament. - Hell Gate has a great deep dive on the + POOL, the proposed [plus-shaped floating pool in the East River]( that for the past 15 years has seemed more like a PR fever dream than something that'll actually materialize. - In other pool news, yes, Olympic swimmers [pee in the water](. - Actors in movies about the Roman Empire [should not be using posh British accents](. (They should sound like Mario and Luigi.) - The Ohio Supreme Court ruled yesterday that boneless chicken wings [can still include bones](. - [Keanu]( [“Yeah, we stay out ‘til like 9, 10 o'clock. I relax, we just talk, laugh. This block is a very safe block.”]( - Crown Heights resident Francine Doyle, who lives just blocks away from [AN ISOLATED 'HOT SPOT' FOR GUN VIOLENCE]( More from Gothamist [second image]( [Here are the best places to watch the Olympics in NYC, from beer halls to arcades]( From tonight's opening ceremony to the closing ceremony on Sunday, Aug. 11, these are the best places in New York City to catch the action. [Meet some of the New Yorkers who are competing in the Paris Olympics]( Queens breakdancer Sunny Choi, Brooklyn fencer Anne Cebula and New Jersey gymnast Hezly Rivera are among the 44 athletes representing New York and New Jersey at the Summer Games. [We Rely On Your Support]( [Reddit? LinkedIn? NYC’s brutal rental market inspires social media crowdsourcing.]( The increasingly cutthroat housing landscape has spawned new crowdsourced listing services that can help renters get a jump on not-yet-listed apartments and possibly avoid thousands of dollars in upfront broker fees. [10 etiquette rules to not be the worst in New York City]( Treat the sidewalk like a highway. Be ready when you get to the cashier. Watch what you’re doing with that umbrella. An etiquette expert shares his essential tips for behaving yourself in public in a city of 8.5 million people. [Instagram]( [Instagram]( [Facebook]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Twitter]( [New York Public Radio] [WNYC]( | [WQXR]( | [NJPR]( | [GOTHAMIST]( [WNYC STUDIOS]( | [THE GREENE SPACE]( Copyright © New York Public Radio. All rights reserved. 160 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 [TERMS OF USE]( You can update your [PREFERENCES]( or [UNSUBSCRIBE]( from this list.