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Early Addition: UPS drivers have a habit of blocking bus lanes
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Published May 1, 2026
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where we're in for an unseasonably chilly weekend.
Here's what else is happening:
- "As the polls show Jack Schlossberg ahead, we think we can do better than that": The progressive Working Families Party, which initially declined to endorse a candidate in the NY-12 Democratic primary, said it may back someone, after all.
- UPS trucks were New York City's most egregious bus-lane blockers in 2025, nearly doubling Amazon's number of citations, according to MTA data.
- Broadway in Brooklyn, which runs from Williamsburg to East New York, has a serious pothole problem.
- Sanitation workers rallied outside City Hall yesterday to demand retirement benefits in line with what cops and firefighters get.
- Federal employees used suppressed rifles to kill 94 deer in a fenced-off Jersey City park during a recent state-ordered hunt.
- Pre-war New York City apartment building doorbells and intercoms are old and janky, but in a cool way?
- Meet Esther Cohen, an Upper West Side poet who was recently named the poet laureate of the Hudson Valley county where she owns a vacation home — and then promptly dumped after the town's conservative legislators found her anti-Trump Facebook posts.
- And finally, everyone get in there:
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