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Extra Extra: Your man in finance is glued to his desk 100 hours a week
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Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where the G train summer of pain is underway.
Here's what else is happening:
- "Melania, meanwhile, was probably chilling in Florida."
- The Wall Street junior banker 100-hour workweek is so back.
- The NYC Department of Transportation's e-scooter share pilot program has arrived in eastern Queens.
- Conservationists caught a 6-foot, 220-pound sturgeon in the Hudson River this week.
- Page Six reports that Justin Timberlake, fresh off his DUI charge on Long Island, had to walk six blocks from his Manhattan apartment to his golf lesson yesterday.
- Dating apps aren't the problem, the problem is that 30-year-old men used to be socially shamed for being bachelors and now they feel free to avoid commitment forever.
- Life is tough and sunburn is also tough — why not use sunscreen that looks like whipped cream?
- Throw some meat on that whip.
- And finally, let 'em in:
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