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  • The question at the heart of AG Letitia James' civil case against Donald Trump: was inflating the value of his apartment by $200 million true fraud, or a quotidian Trump embellishment?
  • Former MTA board members are lamenting that the transit agency hasn't installed permanent walls in front of the subway tracks — like the ones that exist in many foreign cities — that could've prevented Michelle Go and others from being fatally pushed in front of trains.
  • Someone ended up paying $280,000 at auction to win the 1960s Staten Island ferry boat named for John F. Kennedy.
  • Big shout-out to the Broadway swing performers who've kept The Lion King alive during the omicron surge, and are now featured in this NYMag portrait.
  • How do 100-year-old small family businesses stay alive in New York City? By cherishing tried-and-true family ways, "doing what you have to do," and also by owning the building where your business is located.
  • Have some pity (??) for the understaffed IRS that's about to struggle to get through all your tax returns.
  • A Bushwick woman has taken it upon herself to cover the neighborhood in "clean up your dog's poop" signage/public art.
  • More and more, guys are doing "extreme ironing," which involves ironing a shirt while strapped to the back of a cab or climbing a mountain.
  • Today is the day they update the Doomsday Clock, for what that's worth.
  • And finally, thank you for your service, sniffer dog: