Extra Extra: Some People Don't Want To Go Back To "Normal" Post-COVID

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Published Apr 4, 2021

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Ben Yakas

Published Apr 4, 2021

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The NY Times has a story about how Asian-Americans are having an awakening as a political force in response to the surge of racially-motivated attacks.
Is "bystander intervention training" an effective way of combating a rise in crime, or just a short-term solution that ignores bigger problems?
The New Republic has an excellent piece about NYC's failure on homelessness, and how it was encapsulated by the saga at the Lucerne hotel on the UWS: "No one ever says: I don’t want unhoused people living in my neighborhood. They say: I want safer streets. I just want to protect my children. They say: There are schools close to where the proposed shelter will be."
Savion Glover and Nathan Lane performed at a pop-up show on Broadway yesterday for frontline medical and health care workers.
The NY Post has a gossipy piece about Andrew Cuomo and Sandra Lee's breakup, including the claim that Cuomo cheating was an "open secret."
A 95-year-old woman is dead and eight other people were injured after a collision involving an EMS vehicle in Brooklyn.
Vox has an idea about how to improve our broken child care system: "We can start thinking of early child care and education the same way we think about public parks or sanitation or libraries or public schools: as a public good, foundational to a functioning society regardless of whether you directly benefit from its existence."
West Side Rag has the story behind a semi-hidden UWS sign for The J.M. Horton Ice Cream Company.
Not everyone is looking forward to things getting back to normal post-COVID—New York Magazine spoke to people who are grateful, and guilty about feeling grateful, for the pandemic.
If you haven't gotten a chance to hear it yet, Dry Cleaning's debut album New Long Leg is a masterful slab of post-punk guitars and mesmerizing, surreal spoken-word vocals.
And finally, a frisbee standoff for the ages:

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