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Extra Extra: Does anyone really want to live in a converted office?
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Good Thursday afternoon in New York City, where it's extremely hot.
Here's what else is happening:
- Wrongfully convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is being freed from a Russian penal colony as part of a massive prisoner swap between Washington and the Kremlin.
- CUNY enrollment has ticked up for the first time in five years — but enrollment among Hispanic students is lagging.
- "It's looking into a brick wall, and it's a 700-square-foot studio with one small window": Developers at a recent real estate conference said they're not biting on New York's tax incentives for office-to-residential conversions because the actual results are often weird.
- Adam Driver will star as a pompous country singer this fall in an Off Broadway production of Kenneth Lonergan's "Hold On to Me Darling."
- A New Jersey woman is suing a funeral home after she says they didn't bury her dad after his 1993 funeral and instead kept his remains in their basement.
- It's unclear if the nonchalant Turkish pistol shooter in the Olympics is a retired assassin, but he's definitely a dancer and a cat lover.
- These two astronauts are stuck in space.
- And finally, looking for a turn with the Stanley Cup:
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