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Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where one man is on a mission to visit all 350 neighborhoods.
Here's what's happening:
- As of now, there's no plan to improve bike or bus lanes along the G train's route when parts of the line close this summer for construction.
- A massive chunk of ice that likely fell from an airplane crashed through a home in Paterson, New Jersey, this week.
- A Brooklyn woman has been sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for driving onto a sidewalk in 2021 with the intention of running over a male acquaintance and instead fatally hitting a 70-year-old woman.
- The Tony Awards are this Sunday.
- Donald Trump told social media influencer Logan Paul that he had AI write him a speech and it was done "so beautifully."
- A decade after "Bringing Up Bébé" taught a generation of Americans that French parents are cool and sexy and have subtle ways to teach their kids to be disciplined, a French psychotherapist argues that French parents are famous within Europe for yelling at their kids in an "authoritarian" way.
- Congrats to Bao Zi, the Chinese cat who now holds the Guinness World Record for fastest cat on a skateboard.
- We're adjourned until Monday. "Bang gavel."
- And finally, toasty:
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