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Early Addition: Debi Mazar, MTA sign aficionado
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where the president is threatening to effectively kill the Gateway Project and leave two big holes in the ground.
Here's what else is happening:
- The outgoing SoHo REI: Also beloved for its bathroom.
- New York Republican officials are reportedly meeting today to disband their Young Republican organization after the group's racist, misogynistic and antisemitic texts were uncovered.
- The new "DANGER" signs on metal grates in Riverside Park don't mean anything has gotten more dangerous; authorities just don't want people jumping on them.
- Debi Mazar hit the latest MTA signage sale.
- The gathering of the Wikipedia editors is happening in (or near) Union Square this weekend.
- "I love the Knicks ... I think this is the year for the Knicks in the East," said Reggie Miller.
- Original NPR staffer and longtime host Susan Stamberg has died at the age of 87.
- Olivia Nuzzi has a memoir coming out.
- This city has it all: exclusive bar burgers and egalitarian bar burgers.
- And finally, probably cold water:
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