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Early Addition: The lotto winner who's sticking around in his West Village SRO
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Published Mar 27, 2026
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where the war in Iran could complicate the city's war on potholes.
Here's what else is happening:
- The green dye that seeped into a creek in Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island this week via a city environmental department flush test confirms it: Poop and pee from a park bathroom are leaking into the creek.
- MTA express bus riders with disabilities have long complained that bus operators don't know how to work the wheelchair lifts. In response, NYC Transit said it'll increase driver training.
- BTS fans said they were traumatized by the "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"'s convoluted process this week for selecting audience members, which led to a bunch of them not getting to see the K-pop group perform.
- Meet a guy who won $1 million in the lottery but still insists on living in a Jane Hotel single-room-occupancy unit.
- Here's what Naomi Wolf has been saying about the "weather" in Flatbush.
- Sturgill Simpson snagged the No. 3 spot on the Billboard albums chart this week with his only-available-as-a-hard copy "Mutiny After Midnight."
- [SPOILER] "How ‘Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette’ Ends"
- And finally, the polite pigeon of Cambridge:
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