Extra Extra: Fight between East Williamsburg parents and dog owners culminates with 'YOU move to Long Island' shouting match

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Published May 6, 2022

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Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where dancehall yacht party season is upon us. Here's what else is happening:

The New York City Department of Buildings issued new rules this week saying that ghost stores operated by 15-minute grocery delivery apps are going to get booted to manufacturing zones unless they basically open their doors and operate like normal stores.
A fight broke out on NextDoor between parents of little kids and owners of dogs over who gets priority in a local East Williamsburg park, culminating with both sides saying the other should move to Long Island.
Providence, Rhode Island, is moving to pay reparations to Black families whose neighborhood was seized by eminent domain in the 1950s to build apartments for Brown University students and a shopping plaza that now houses a Whole Foods.
The Guardian has the story of a young Australian man who punctured his lung eating sugary cereal without milk — something he's still committed to doing despite having now punctured that lung twice (two times!).
"There's no shame in being older and getting older," Brooke Shields explained to NPR.
You all made fun of Jeremy Strong for calling Succession a comedy in the sense that "Chekhov is a comedy," but Brian Cox is now calling cancel culture "modern day McCarthyism," so, pick a new show?
Here's Feist doing a lovely Thomas Tallis-type harmony with a buzzing radiator in her dressing room.
Inflation has not slowed down online gambling.
TikTok is telling you to sell feet pics. Should you?
Philly's own Sadurn dropped its new album just in time for this rainy-ass day.
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