It’s Thursday afternoon in New York City, where one crappy Brooklyn street stands out from the rest.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Some good news for people who enjoy the heat: The Farmer's Almanac is predicting a warmer-than-usual spring for New York City.
- Some disappointing news for people who enjoy linguistics: the New York City accent is disappearing.
- The grandson of the inventor of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups is accusing The Hershey Company of changing the treat’s recipe, replacing the milk chocolate with “compound coatings” and peanut butter "with peanut-butter-style-crèmes.”
- Elsewhere in the dessert world, Nestlé is exiting the ice cream business.
- A New York City man who used an obscure tenant law to secure residency at the New Yorker Hotel pleaded guilty to fraud charges after forging ownership documents and attempting to collect rent on the room.
- Good luck to the JP Morgan Chase employees trying to get into the company’s new bar.
- Curtis Sliwa is on Substack.
- And finally, the viral abandoned baby monkey:
