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Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where we got an update about what caused an explosion in the subway system last year.
Here's what else is happening:
- In other explosion news, two separate manhole fires ignited in Bushwick yesterday evening.
- New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has raised some concerns about the Department of Education's approval of $750,000 in catering orders placed with one Caribbean restaurant in East New York over this past fiscal year.
- Lucinda Williams has a new "honky tonk" karaoke bar in the East Village.
- An old "Striver's Row" townhouse in Harlem that Bob Dylan once lived in is on the market for $3 million.
- Chappell Roan put out a new song called "The Subway." (It's about love.)
- Sydney Sweeney loves her Levi's.
- The "gross" Chocolate Monkey Bread from the subway recipes sounds good to me?
- Some love for "Lean Back."
- And finally, king:
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