Extra Extra: It's once again the season when people wear cool outfits to the park

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Published Apr 14, 2022

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James Ramsay

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Good Thursday afternoon in New York City, where ice cream weather has arrived. Here's what else is happening:

"I was wondering, What am I going to do? Am I going to make a run for the stairs all the way at the end of the platform? Or am I going to take this R train to maybe guaranteed safety but also risk being trapped on the train with this guy again? I hear my conductor scream: 'Everyone get on the f--king R train. Get on it right now.'" One man who was on the attacked N train gave a terrifying but deeply moving account of his experience to The New Yorker.
New York state cannabis regulators today issued 52 licenses to local farmers to grow recreational weed.
There's an embroidery truck going around town now.
The New York Times has a nice tribute to Christopher Moore, the prolific journalist, curator and New York City preservationist who died earlier this year at age 70.
It's the season where people wear fun outfits to the park, so New York magazine went to one in Bed-Stuy to capture it.
Facebook, which you may or may not know dipped its toes in the podcasting business, is getting out of the podcasting business.
"They think Birds Aren’t Real is a CIA psy-op. They think that we are the CIA, we’re put out there as a weapon against conspiracy theorists." The Arkansas man who started Birds Aren't Real explains how the joke took on a weird life of its own.
Alec Baldwin explained today that he and his wife keep having kids because they love it.
People are loving this baby hippo from Cincinnati.
People are also loving Kevin's dating profile.
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And finally, fella could do this forever:

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