Issue #19
Your city council district might be changing thanks to a once-a-decade mandatory redistricting process that finally moved to the next step this week, as the redistricting commission approved the most recent maps.
After a September surprise “no” vote on the maps released a few weeks ago, the commissioners of the redistricting commission seemed happy to be done with the process. Whether there will be any changes between now and December as the council takes a look at them, as I say when I have no idea what’s going to happen: only time will tell.
You can read more at THE CITY and also check out our map that shows what the new lines look like.
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Sadly, the Bill de Blasio COVID hold music ruined “Piazza, New York Catcher” for me. But here are three other songs for the New York Mets!
"New York Mets" by The Duke of Iron
"And We Say...Let's Go Mets" by Lucas Prata
"Let's Go Mets" by the 1986 World Champion Mets
You’re all going to be very disappointed because what I’m about to write about is NOT a sandwich. But it’s a food item I’m very passionate about and it’s Mets-themed, so deal with it.
People sometimes ask me, “Katie, I’m going to see the Metsies play at home. What should I eat?” I sometimes do the obnoxious thing and suggest they eat before, at Corona Plaza or Mama’s. But I always recommend the same thing for in-stadium eating: the nacho helmet.
It is simply a pile of nachos shoved into a plastic helmet. You can add more pickled jalapeños at one of the world-renowned fixins’ bars, but you probably won’t need it.
Although it’s now $20, it’s still the best deal at the ballpark. And you get to keep the helmet. When you share with friends, it comes out to like $5 a person to eat a bunch of nachos (you can fight over who gets the helmet.)
At my first game back after COVID I told the very nice man at the nacho stand how much I thought about these nachos during the worst days of COVID, and how they came to represent a normal time that I hoped we would one day have again. Thankfully he didn’t think I was crazy. If anything, he seemed touched by such an outpouring of love over a nacho helmet.
You also might wonder, why would an adult need even one nacho helmet in their home? Well, I use them for popcorn, and I sometimes have guests. Imagine not having enough nacho helmets to offer to friends on movie night? They also compliment the smaller soft-serve helmets, for smaller portions of popcorn.
Here’s a photo of the helmet on my large head, for scale.
Nacho helmet, Citi Field. Corner of 126th and Roosevelt. I call it Corona.
Thanks for reading!