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The Rundown
 

~A FREELANCER’S LIFE FOR ME: All the freelancers working in your neighborhood coffeeshop can now rest a bit easier. NYC is officially the first city in the country to legally protect freelancers from getting stiffed. Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander authored the legislation, which mandates, among other things, that employers pony up for work worth $800 or more either by a decided-upon date or within 30 days of completing an assignment. That’s good news for the over 70 percent of freelancers in NYC who in 2015 reportedissues with collecting their payments. (via Gothamist) 
 
~MEANWHILE, IN SOME NOT-SO-PROMISING EMPLOYMENT NEWS…: A report reveals that one in every 20 New Yorkers earned less than minimum wage between 2013 and 2015. The city’s high immigrant population likely contributes to those numbers, since immigrants who make up a large portion of the low-wage workforce are often particularly vulnerable to wage theft due to a reluctance to speak up and risk exposing or jeopardizing their status. (via Gothamist) 
 
~PLEASE, NOT ANOTHER “MISERABLE SNARL” OF A COMMUTE: Brooklyn pols have had it with mangled subway commutes in recent weeks, and they’recalling on Gov. Cuomo and the MTA to step in. Following two massive electrical outages at DeKalb Ave. last week, Borough President Eric Adamssaid, “It is time for the governor’s office and the MTA to prove how seriously the state takes the impact that an underfunded and outdated transit system has had on straphangers’ daily lives as well as our local and statewide economies.” (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 
 
~IF YOU REPAIR IT, THEY WILL COME: The Brooklyn Public Library is banding together with the New York Public Library and Queens Library to ask the city for $150 million for crucial maintenance updates…and according to a new report, that’s just a sliver of the $1.1 billion worth of repairs the libraries need. The report highlights Brooklyn’s Pacific Library as one of ten libraries with the highest need, and also argues that investment in libraries yields great return–an overhaul in the Bronx’s Kingsbridge Libraryled to an 80 percent increase in attendance, and Staten Island’s Stapleton Library saw a 177 percent increase in program attendance, post-renovation.(via Curbed NY) 
 
~“THE LAW CANNOT GET IN THE WAY OF JUSTICE”: That’s what Brooklyn DA candidate Ama Dwimoh says about the current state law that makes it impossible for survivors of child sexual abuse 23 years or older to bring their abusers to court. She’s calling upon New York lawmakers and Gov. Cuomo topass the Child Victims Act, which would, among other things, give survivors of child sexual abuse older than 23 a one-year window to file civil charges against their abusers and eliminate the statute of limitations for any future cases in both criminal and civil court. (via The Brooklyn Daily Eagle)   

~ICYMI//LOOKIN’ GOOD, BROOKLYN: Brooklyn boasts four winners in the city’s 35th Annual Awards for Excellence in Design. Check out the winning designs at Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center, the archway “Double Sun” at the McCarren Park Play Center, the Waterfront Nature Walk at the Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant and Dock 72 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
 
~IF YOU THOUGHT THE SUPREME-BRANDED METROCARDS CREATED A DEBACLE…: Get ready. In advance of the May 21 return of “Twin Peaks,” MetroCards bearing the image of either ill-fated prom queen Laura Palmer or the coffee-addicted Agent Dale Cooper will be available at 11 subway stations throughout the city. Brace yourself for hipster mobs (or join them) atBedford Ave., Metropolitan Ave., Bergen St. and York St. (via Curbed NY)      
 
~PHOTO OF THE DAY: Summery temps ahead this week! Time to start planning weekends at Brighton Beach, using this photo as inspiration. (via@brooklyndailyeagle)

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Staff Picks     
 

READ: A new study reveals that the average person is keeping 13 secrets right now, five of which they’ve never uttered to another soul. Here’s thepsychology of secret-keeping. (via The Atlantic) 
 
PROFILE: Missy Elliott has been gettin’ her freak on for over 20 years.(via Elle) 
 
LOOK: Dance through the skeletons of Italy’s abandoned nightclubs with thisphoto essay. (via Noisey)
 
LISTEN: “But Really, Can You Stand In Front of the Microwave?” (via Science Friday)

 
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NATIONAL BULLETIN: Big Brother is watching you text and drive–police departments across the country are employing undercover cops dressed as construction workers and panhandlers to peer into car windows and curtial texting and driving…Reports indicate that Trump has revealed classified intelligence to Russia before telling American allies…The newest member of Trump’s team? A bank regulator who helped big banks charge more fees and dodge state laws protecting consumers…And there’s just about nowhere that pizza delivery service won’t go, including stalled Amtrak trains. (via the WSJ, the NYT, ProPublica and @MitchKatz)
 
FOREIGN FLASH: The French election may be done and dusted, but eyes now turn to Austria, where the far-right Freedom Party is gaining ground…TheState Department finds that the Syrian government is using a crematorium inside a military prison to secretly dispose of thousands of executed prisoners…Amid the missile launches, can you find North Korea on a map? Data shows that those who can tend to favor diplomacy…A leading neo-Nazi website debuts a Spanish-language edition…And for your daily dose of muggle news, a burglar snatches an 800-word prequel to the Harry Potter books, scrawled by J.K. Rowling herself. (via WaPo, the NYT, the AP and NPR)   
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 ROYAL WATCH: Both Queen Elizabeth and HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum look pleased as punch to be in each other’s company at the Royal Windsor Endurance Race horse race. (via Emirates Woman) 
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BROOKLYN TONIGHT

 
12:00pm – Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon at 92nd Street Y. Details.
 
3:00pm – 6:30pm – Free bike helmet giveaway at Brooklyn Public Library’s Central branch. Details.
 
5:00pm – Making Black Lives Matter: Tracing the Role of Women in the Black Radical Tradition at the Museum of the City of New York. Details.
 
6:00pm – Hal Rubenstein: Red Carpet Style at Museum at FIT. Details.   
 
7:00pm – The Ranger Zone at Branded Saloon. Details.
 
7:00pm – Book Talk: On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety by Andrea Petersen at PowerHouse Arena. Details.
 
7:30pm – Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana at BAM Fisher. Details.  
 
7:30pm – “Are You Anybody?” Transparent’s Jeffrey Tambor in Conversation with Judith Light at 92nd Street Y. Details.
 
7:30pm – Naughty Daughtyr at Jack. Details.
 
8:00pm – Les Bonhommes at Union Pool. Details.
 
8:00pm – Brooklyn Winery Tasting Tour & Tasting at Brooklyn Winery.Details.  

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 ON THE PITCH: For a Mother’s Day matinee, the Cosmos displayed aspirited and gutsy performance to come back from two goals down to earn their first home win of the season against Puerto Rico FC 4-3. “It’s really important for today, to do this on Mother’s Day,” said Emmanuel Ledesma, who earned Man of the Match honors for his two assists. “It’s a very important day in America. This victory is for all the mothers of the players and also for my mother and for my wife.” (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

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