Extra Extra: Knock it off, latte-drinking Upper East Siders waltzing through subway's emergency gates

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Published Apr 28, 2022

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James Ramsay

Published Apr 28, 2022

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Good Thursday afternoon in New York City, where the fire risk is up. Here's what else is happening:

A former employee of a Chipotle in Flushing is suing the company, alleging that they fired her for trying to unionize.
MTA Chair Janno Lieber insisted this week that the agency's push to go after fare-evaders isn't about criminalizing poverty because he's seen "countless images of people in designer clothes, carrying $7 lattes, waltzing through emergency gates at Wall Street or on the Upper East Side."
Mayor Eric Adams has named a new head of the Taxi and Limousine Commission after the previous boss resigned over leaked audio of her swearing at employees.
The New Yorker has a story about a silver fox from Yorkville who keeps scamming girlfriends out of thousands of dollars for "investments" that never pay off.
New science indicates that a dog's breed has little-to-no effect on their personality.
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's former Los Angeles doorman gave a bizarre taped deposition for their defamation trial that he filmed in his car while vaping and swigging from a bottle of what appears to be Mountain Dew.
Meet the RepLadies, a Reddit group of mostly Millennial women whose passion is finding really well executed knock-offs of designer stuff.
This documentary about a Massachusetts man and his bookstore seems very pleasant.
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