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Extra Extra: Where's a 4-year-old supposed to pee when the bathroom's locked?
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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where a cyberattack has interfered with state budget negotiations.
Here's what else is happening:
- A downtown mom is fighting the $50 summons she received after her 4-year-old son peed outdoors at Battery Park because the bathroom by the playground was locked and he really had to go.
- Unionized "Sesame Street" writers are threatening to strike and picket outside the company's Upper West Side offices if a contract deal isn't reached with management.
- Young attractive New Yorkers are flirting with each other over pickleball.
- This semi-gutted Financial District office building looks hip.
- A metal-sorting company estimates Americans now throw away $68 million a year in coins.
- They're turning "Crazy Rich Asians" into a Broadway musical.
- A cofounder of the Blue Man Group has been wandering around NYC, collecting tchotchkes he turns into mohawk-like "art fins."
- "Send Jake To A Farm Upstate."
- People keep getting brought out as surprise guests at Coachella.
- And finally, a beaut:
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