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Extra Extra: It's spotted lanternfly egg-killing season
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Published Apr 12, 2024
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Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where the Second Avenue subway isn't going downtown anytime soon.
Here's what else is happening:
- Newark's 11 p.m. curfew for kids under 18 goes into effect tonight. (First offenders will get a ride home from the cops and a verbal warning, according to local officials.)
- Apps that let you pay a heavily discounted price for a mystery bag of food that would otherwise be discarded from high-end grocery stores and restaurants have hit NYC.
- Randall’s Island Park is holding a spotted lanternfly egg hunt tomorrow as a way to get a head start on killing the invasive bugs before they hatch.
- It's unclear if the debut of "Sex and the City" on Netflix has earned the show a new audience of Zoomers, but hordes of fans are definitely showing up unwanted on the stoop of Carrie's apartment on Perry Street.
- A new show of graffiti and street art opens tonight at Bronxlandia, an exhibition space at the site of a former train station in Hunts Point.
- O.J. Simpson's white Bronco is on display at a crime museum in Tennessee.
- Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are making a pair of new Netflix shows. (Hers is about cooking and friendship, his is about polo.)
- Rishi Sunak killed the Samba.
- And finally, "hey bear":
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