Happy Friday — and welcome back spring. It’s going to be a lovely day to get outside with temperatures over 60 degrees this afternoon. However, be warned that early next week we will head back down to the low 20s! Enjoy today…
Yellow taxis, gutted by the rise of rideshare app Uber, are finally getting picked up, as the behemoth tech company reached a deal with cab companies to combine forces. Read more…
The USNS Comfort wasn’t the first floating hospital to dock in Hell’s Kitchen, as a new exhibit at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum reveals. On The Mend: Restoring Intrepid’s Sick Bay details the history and efforts to restore the vessel’s medical facilities. Read more…
What we’ve been reading
New York City Transit gets a new boss — and he doesn’t own a car. (New York Times)
Barry Manilow brings Harmony to New York. (NY1)
They’ve been crunching the numbers about how many people have left New York, and it makes for an interesting read… (New York Post)
Feeling stressed? Settle back, enjoy these pups getting some training tips at Rockefeller Center — and relax… (PIX11)
Is your streaming TV menu looking like a scammer paradise? (Vox)
Freeze Frame
There’s a new shark drink in town! We’ve loved the Pocket Bar Sharknado Sangria for so many years — but now there’s the Shark Week! More details of this JAWS-dropping cocktail and new Hell’s Kitchen bar tomorrow…
Happy birthday to Eric Papa.
