Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where there are crazy traffic outside the WNYC office. This is what else is happening:
- Attorney General Letitia James is warning New Yorkers not to fall for vacation rental scams this summer.
- The New York Times considers the potential dangers of replacing New York City’s standardized gifted and talented test for preschoolers with a system that asks teachers, who haven’t received serious training to know what “gifted” means, to recommend which students you think should get a place in a G&T program.
- Donald Trump paid a $110,000 fine after being held in contempt of court for failing to cooperate with the New York AG fraud investigation.
- A Park Slope resident with a cool hairstyle was caught on camera not picking up his dog’s poop, and the Park Slope Nextdoor.com community is desperate to shame this person into oblivion.
- Broadway is extending its public mask requirements through June 30.
- Stocks, cryptocurrencies, inflation: If you started 2022 with money to lose, you probably lost something.
- Rep. Madison Cawthorn, the Trump-backed North Carolina congressman who just lost the Republican primary for his seat, said “gentlemen [sic?] politics as usual” is over and he will somehow get revenge on the established Republicans who got mad at him for saying they throw coke orgies.
- Meanwhile, Senator Ted Cruz wonders how on earth Pete Davidson “gets all these hot women.”
- Take a look at Dick Van Dyke, making a rare appearance walking down a Malibu sidewalk at the age of 96.
- Boomer Sooner, General Loot.
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