This is a really cool article about how NYC’s steam heat systems, the one most older buildings have with the clanking radiators, actually work. I love the advertisement linked to within, with old gas tank like late great ones in Maspeth (once visible from the LIE), looming above.

thegivingreview.com/if-the-n… @GivingReview co-editor @mhartmannmke considers @IUPhilanthropy’s new What Americans Think of Nonprofits & Philanthropy 2026, and what it might reveal about the nonprofit sector … The report finds what it calls “a substantial recognition gap: Americans may interact with nonprofits regularly while not identifying those interactions as nonprofit service use. “More broadly,” it continues, “many people may associate nonprofit services primarily with direct assistance or basic needs, while overlooking the broader range of nonprofit institutions they encounter.” According to Hartmann: “The nonprofit sector has developed an academic-professional infrastructure sophisticated enough to discover that most Americans don’t know there is a nonprofit sector. “Perhaps the public doesn’t need the ‘nonprofit sector,’” he writes, “nearly as much as the nonprofit sector needs the nonprofit sector.”

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The report What Americans Think About Nonprofits & Philanthropy 2026 from the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy & the @Hewlett_Found found that confidence in nonprofits is higher than confidence in other institutions but remains limited and malleable. news.iu.edu/philanthropy/liv…

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The mayor appointed criminal justice reformer Chris Watler to serve as chair of the Board of Correction today. Watler will lead oversight efforts as the city attempts to close Rikers Island and continues to deal with unabated violence in the jails. queenseagle.com/all/2026/10/…

Trudie’s Tavern in Brooklyn is an amalgamation. With its pink napkins, blue velvet upholstery, dirty Martinis, oysters, and a lusty strip steak dripping in bone-marrow butter, it’s certainly romantic. But it’s also a casual restaurant, good for a burger and a beer with a friend, or an early dinner with the kids. It’s a little kitschy, too: the bathroom, with 80s-era baseball memorabilia and multicolored party lighting. “The menu is a similar mishmash,” Helen Rosner writes. Read her full review: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/HC…