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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where you gotta watch out for tax scammers.
Here's what else is happening:
- Scientists are warning people not to touch — and especially not to give sympathetic kisses to — sick birds in NYC that may carry the H5N1 bird flu virus.
- "With respect, Chief Chell, if NYPD Twitter is calling a journalist deceitful for something he wrote, a jury apparently found you deceitful for fatally shooting somebody": WNYC's Brian Lehrer on Monday asked NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell, who made waves by publicly criticizing a journalist, about the time a jury awarded $2.5 million to the mother of a man whom Chell shot and killed during a 2017 confrontation.
- Meanwhile, NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban said he's frustrated that isolated crimes get "magnified all over social media" when the reality is "we're the safest big city in America."
- Meet three NYC artists living in cool lofts.
- The New York Times Magazine has a long piece about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's decision to finally bring felony charges against Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case — and ultimately stake his reputation on convicting the former president.
- NYC's monthlong Tulip Festival kicks off this weekend.
- Peter Higgs, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered (and named) the Higgs boson, a particle that (theoretically) binds the universe together, has died at the age of 94.
- The surest way to boost your clout in elementary schools these days is to come with cool pencils.
- And finally, bullies:
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