Extra Extra: The new Acela trains are too advanced for the Northeast Corridor rail lines

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Published May 30, 2023

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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where Manhattanhenge is about to pop. Here's what else is happening:

Amtrak has a $2 billion fleet of new, very fast Acela trains from France that can't start running yet because it's unclear whether they can operate properly on the Northeast Corridor's 100-year-old freight tracks.
Joanne Wilson, a successful tech investor and founder of the fully legal Gotham Cannabis Dispensary (she partnered with a nonprofit that "works to benefit the formerly incarcerated"), is furious that unlicensed weed shops are out here doing business.
The nonprofit Ballin' 4 Peace, which seeks to bring together community members and the police, is holding its seventh annual celebrity basketball game in the Bronx this weekend.
Ralph Yarl, the Black Kansas City teen who was shot in the head by an 84-year-old white man after ringing the wrong doorbell, walked in a brain injury awareness event yesterday.
R.I.P. David Brandt, the Ohio farmer known as the face of the "honest work" meme who was also a Purple Heart recipient and a pioneer in the sustainable farming movement.
"Nassau County has the highest concentration of people searching for Salt Life in the United States," so expect to see a lot of Salt Lifers this summer.
It's considered déclassé among very rich people to not have more bathrooms than bedrooms in your home.
Apparently in the new Zelda game, you can just ... cook a hearty meal?
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