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Early Addition: New Jersey's aftershock count has passed 50
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Published Apr 12, 2024
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is telling her colleagues to ignore the mayor's fill-out-this-form-to-speak-to-us dictum.
Here's what else is happening:
- In the year since the sanitation department took over ticketing for unlicensed street vendors, citywide ticketing dropped 22% — but increased 29% in the Bronx.
- Reminder: The Queens-bound side of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn Heights will be shut down this weekend for repairs.
- New Jersey has officially experienced more than 50 aftershocks since last week's 4.8-magnitude earthquake. The U.S. Geological Survey is now deploying "aftershock kits" to study what's going on.
- City Councilmember Gale Brewer vs. Zaza Waza: From the beginning.
- Here's Upper East Sider Gar Gutman again on the diner where he's been a "super-regular" for the past 31 years: "They’re very, very fair about substitutions. For example, my wife tends to order — they have this Greek salad that comes with stuffed grape leaves. She doesn’t particularly like stuffed grape leaves so she substitutes steamed broccoli for the grape leaves."
- I wonder if Dominique Ansel would let me order this escargot bagel, but substitute cream cheese for the snail?
- L.A. Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani's interpreter has now been charged with stealing more than $16 million from Ohtani to fund his betting habit.
- The BookTok girls are loving the "1984" audioplay starring Andrew Scott and Andrew Garfield.
- If you're walking through a field of cows and one charges at you, maybe bop it on the nose with a stick.
- And finally, "don't bop me":
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