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Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where these subway conductors look good.
Here's what else is happening:
- The MTA announced that during next year's 4-month A train shutdown in the Rockaways, the Long Island Rail Road train from Far Rockaway will only cost $2.75.
- This is a good story about the growth and evolution of North Jersey's Korean community, culminating with the election of Sen.-elect Andy Kim.
- There's an abandoned townhouse on Matt Damon's block in Brooklyn Heights that the owner for some reason won't sell.
- The Pentagon has unveiled that at some point between May 2023 and June 2024, a commercial plane near New York City almost hit an unidentified flying object.
- If you have $40 million to burn, one option is to buy this wacky beach house in Georgia.
- If you have only $25.2 million to burn, consider Winston Churchill's old house in London.
- "You might think smoking is brat, but David Lynch disagrees."
- Drinking draft beer in a bar is a dying art.
- And finally, the rizzler:
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