Photos of NYC's Abandoned North Brother Island; Lower East Side Pickle Day Recap; Impossibly Tiny Brooklyn Cocktail Bar

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.

• Bowery Boogie ⇒ Scenes From Yesterday’s Lower East Side Pickle Day [Photos]
• Brooklyn Heights Blog ⇒ Greenpeace Ship Visiting Pier Six, Brooklyn Bridge Park
• Brooklyn Paper ⇒ Ai Wei-What? Straphangers Confuse Artist’s Sculpture for Chair, Wind Barrier
• Business Insider ⇒ New York City Owns a Creepy Island That Almost No One Is Allowed to Visit — Here's What It's Like
• Curbed NY ⇒ MTA Reopens Bay Ridge Avenue Station After Six-Month Renovation Project
• DNAinfo New York ⇒ Million-Dollar Condos Offer Sweeping Views of Public Sex in Harlem Park
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The Lost Robt. L. Stuart Mansion - 154 Fifth Avenue
• EV Grieve ⇒ Cafe Orlin Signs Off
• Ephemeral New York ⇒ One of the Last Remnants of the Old Penn Station
• Explore Brooklyn ⇒ Open House New York – Brooklyn Sites! - Explore Brooklyn
• Greenpointers ⇒ Green Thumbin' It: North Brooklyn Community Garden Roundup - Greenpointers
• Guest of a Guest ⇒ 7 NYC Brunch Spots to Hit This Weekend
• New York Times ⇒ At This Brooklyn Bar, It’s Just You, Your Date and the Barman
• New York YIMBY ⇒ 302 East 96th Street Nears Topping-Out on the Upper East Side
• StreetEasy Blog ⇒ NYC Bridges Deemed Structurally Deficient: 76 Fail Design Standards
• The Real Deal New York ⇒ NYC Biz Leaders Make the Case to Jeff Bezos for HQ2
• Thrillist ⇒ The Definitive NoMad Dining Guide
• Untapped Cities ⇒ 12 Alternative NYC Events for a Spooky Halloween, 2017 Edition