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Good Friday morning in New York City, where people keep parking in the Queensbridge greenway.
Here’s what else is happening:
- New York City’s AI-powered chatbot that was introduced to assist local businesses has been spitting out false statements such as, “Yes, you can take a cut of your worker’s tips,” and, “No, landlords are not required to accept tenants on rental assistance.”
- The New York Times has a full scene report from last night’s $500,000-a-head fundraiser for President Joe Biden at Radio City Music Hall.
- New York state prisons are instating a system-wide lockdown during the eclipse, barring incarcerated New Yorkers from seeing the moon completely cover the sun.
- Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been detained in a Russian prison on “espionage” allegations for an entire year.
- Going on “Real Housewives of New York City” was great for Jenna Lyons‘ bottom line, so she’s returning for another season.
- Scientists say that as the planet warms and glaciers melt, the increase in seawater will slow down the Earth’s rotation and could force timekeepers to subtract a second from our clocks.
- Here’s a new picture of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
- On Fridays, we work less and it’s fine.
- And finally, the frolicking Coney Island seal:
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