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Early Addition: Did Baby Lasagna drop the song of the summer?

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Published May 8, 2024

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Early Addition is a daily newsletter to guide you through New York City news, plus other tidbits from around the internet. Sign up here to get the full version in your inbox every weekday morning.

Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where video gamer Kai Cenat has apologized for creating chaos in Union Square last summer.

Here's what else is happening:

• A federal judge yesterday ordered New York City officials to come up with a plan over the next two weeks to finally make half of the city's yellow cabs wheelchair accessible — something that was supposed to have been accomplished by 2020 under the terms of a settlement.
• Here's a satisfying time-lapse video of road crews cleaning up I-95 in Connecticut after a fuel truck caught fire and wrecked the interstate last week.
• In other Connecticut news, meet the Darien college student who may or may not be informing the FBI after facing charges of running a multimillion-dollar UPS return fraud scheme.
• Newsday has a good piece honoring the grand and sometimes mafia-adjacent banquet halls of Long Island.
• Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard said he listened to "New York State of Mind" on repeat while running a 100k trail race in Oregon.
• ...should've gone with Baby Lasagna's "Rim Tim Tagi Dim," in our opinion.
• The hairless Sphynx cat: here for a weird time, not for a long time.
• Verōnika, the restaurant inside the Fotografiska photography museum, was named New York's most beautiful restaurant by People Magazine.
• 👟 Do you run in NYC — and have advice for those looking to start? Gothamist wants to hear from you for a story!
• And finally, rise and grind baby:

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