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Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where Brooklyn's Monsignor McGolrick Park got itself a wacky birding club.
Here's what else is happening:
- The MTA is boosting express bus service on several Staten Island-to-Midtown and eastern Brooklyn-to-Midtown routes ahead of congestion pricing.
- A New York State Supreme Court judge ruled earlier this month that Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, which has become an EDM hotspot, has to turn down its volume.
- The Rockaway waterfront has a sleek new nature preserve pathway.
- The NYPD said a man was arrested today for allegedly taking a woman's phone and throwing it in a pond in Central Park.
- "It’s only impossible to make a dinner reservation at like five restaurants."
- Keep it up, Knicks.
- There are probably dumber ways to spend $32 than on a bag of high-end ice balls.
- The trailer for the new Lion King prequel is a little scary!
- And finally, you're okay:
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