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Early Addition: The mood at MTA HQ the day congestion pricing died
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James Ramsay
Published Jun 7, 2024
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where you probably don't want to swim in the rivers.
Here's what else is happening:
- "It’s a sh**tty f**king day": Curbed got some colorful accounts of the mood at the MTA's office the day that congestion pricing all but died.
- Families staged a "playdate" outside City Hall yesterday to protest the mayor's proposed cuts to early child care programs for 3-year-olds.
- Congrats to the 28 musical acts whose auditions won them coveted spots in the MTA's official Music Under New York subway busker program.
- These bees were not officially authorized to take over a Queens subway entrance, but they evidently didn't care.
- Team USA got a huge upset win over Pakistan in the T20 Cricket World Cup yesterday.
- Pat Sajak is hosting Wheel of Fortune for the final time tonight after 41 years on the job.
- On the occasion of the German cult classic philosophy action movie "Run Lola Run" getting a 25th anniversary theatrical rerelease, the film's star, Franka Potente, told Variety how she did all that running in Doc Martens while smoking two packs a day.
- A Dolly Parton musical is coming to Broadway in 2026.
- And finally, the struggle:
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