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Early Addition: Let's just enjoy this last day of 'fool's spring' in NYC
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Published Mar 11, 2026
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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where there's some discrepancy about whether this salsa is really that hot.
Here's what else is happening:
- Go outside now before it drops into the 30s again.
- New York City's boomer dentists are about to retire, so we need to quickly train more.
- A 46-year-old man died this week in Ozone Park while riding a scooter in an area riddled with dangerous potholes.
- A new analysis from the Vera Institute found that only 42% of the 911 calls that resulted in an NYPD response last year were labeled by dispatchers as "crime related," while the majority of calls had to do with issues including personal disputes, utility problems and traffic incidents.
- The Tunnel to Towers Foundation mounted a steel beam from the World Trade Center in the bed of a box truck and is taking it on a tour across the country to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
- Boring work is still meaningful.
- Meet the world's fattest parrot.
- And finally, they're back:
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