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Food critic Robert Sietsema joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to talk about his list of the best places to eat in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. He writes about food for Gothamist and for his Substack, Robert Sietsema's New York. 

After a gubernatorial election that gained plenty of national attention, you might think New Jerseyans would be getting a short news break. But that's not the case. 

Outgoing governor, Phil Murphy, has a lengthy to-do list before he leaves office next month. 13 different candidates are vying to replace incoming governor Mikie Sherrill in Congress. And there were fireworks this week at a state senate committee hearing on a bill that would weaken the power of the state comptroller.

WNYC's Mike Hayes discusses the latest news with Weekend Edition host, David Furst.

MTA Chair Janno Lieber said next month’s retirement of the MetroCard will enable the agency to ramp up its crackdown on fare evaders. Lieber’s planned enforcement blitz would come right as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani takes office following a campaign that promised to eliminate the fare on the MTA’s buses. (Lieber has dismissed the idea as infeasible.)

This week's Politics Brief features an examination of the political dynamics between the mayor-elect and the presumptive City Council speaker. 

The newest challenge to New York’s rent-stabilization law is, on its face, a narrow dispute over a handful of long-vacant apartments. But the attorneys who filed the complaint say they’ve got a specific audience in mind: the U.S. Supreme Court.

The nonprofit libertarian Institute for Justice says it crafted the lawsuit to offer the court the kind of clean, concrete dispute that could allow the justices to revisit the constitutional limits of rent regulation.

Read more at Gothamist.

A fight over a historic Upper West Side church that has pitted A-list celebrities against a small Presbyterian congregation could finally be resolved next month.

'Pieces of April,' starring Katie Holmes, takes place on a single Thanksgiving day on the Lower East Side, jumping between parallel stories of a New Jersey family piling into the car to visit their estranged daughter in the city, and the daughter frantically preparing to host them in her Suffolk Street walkup. It’s both deeply of its time, and shockingly modern, and it almost didn't get made. 

A New York City mayor's second term is missing from the official record, and the implications span centuries. 

Greenmarkets are full of colorful varieties of kale, which are at their most flavorful this time of year when the cold weather forces the plant to produce more sugar. 

Amelia Tarpey is the Program and Publicity Manger for GrowNYC Greenmarkets. She said head to the Greenmarkets this weekend for the perfect veggie to cleanse from your Thanksgiving feast. Or, use some of your leftovers and incorporate fresh market kale to make a whole new and impressive dish.

Right now at Greenmarkets across the city, kale is going for $3 to $5 a bunch.