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- The CDC has concluded that anxiety, rather than the vaccine itself, has caused slightly elevated rates of people fainting after receiving the Johnson & Johnson shot.
- For those of us who understandably get anxious about needles, good news: The COVID-19 booster vaccines may come in pill or nasal spray form.
- The Times reports on how the global pandemic has disrupted life for jewelers, clothing stores, wine shops and other retail businesses in Manhattan, who don't know if landlords will keep floating them until office workers and tourists come back.
- Eleven Madison Park, the three-Michelin-starred restaurant where dinner for two can easily cost $1,000, is cutting meat and fish from the menu and going plant-based.
- Your Hometown Deli, a zero-Michelin-starred deli in Paulsboro, New Jersey, where meats are aplenty, is currently valued at about $2 billion on the stock market.
- Now that weed is legal in New York, the Taxi & Limousine Commission will stop testing cab drivers.
- Verizon is selling Yahoo and AOL to a private equity firm for about half of what it paid for the two once-powerful internet companies.
- Almost $40 million in tax incentives was enough to convince Netflix to locate its North American production hub in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- California Republican gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner said she opposes letting transgender girls compete in girls' school sports.
- And finally, we're all clear under the couch:
Jake Dobkin
Published May 3, 2021
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