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Early Addition: Ain't no party like a PowerPoint party

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Published May 7, 2024

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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where IDNYC cards are getting easier to obtain.

Here's what else is happening:

• Gov. Kathy Hochul has apologized for saying "we have young Black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word 'computer' is" at a conference in California.
• Harvey Weinstein has been moved from Bellevue Hospital's floor where Rikers Island detainees are usually held and is now in a VIP room with a TV.
• Revel electric scooters are no longer for rent on city streets but you can buy them on Facebook Marketplace — at your own risk.
• Multiple pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested outside the Met Gala last night.
• Curbed did some sleuthing and figured out who bought Joan Didion's Upper East Side apartment: a cofounder of Chelsea Piers. (A source said he bought it for one of his daughters to live in.)
• Here's the story of how a zebra named Sugar slipped out the back of a trailer on a Seattle highway, escaped into the woods, found a barn, and for five days grew close to a horse named Razzle Dazzle.
• Amtrak's New York City-to-the-Berkshires train is coming back this summer.
• Zoomers are giving PowerPoint presentations at their parties.
• 👟 Do you run in NYC — and have advice for those looking to start? Gothamist wants to hear from you for a story!
• And finally, here they come:

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