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Early Addition: Upstate Baker Pivots To Toilet Paper Cakes


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Published Mar 31, 2020


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  • Some NYC first responders are sleeping in their cars for fear of infecting their loves ones, according to the vice president of the FDNY EMS officers union.
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  • Jason Gay wrote a nice essay about how life has changed in the city since the pandemic broke out: “New York City is something that happens when you step outside. It’s a pace and an energy; you feel its relentlessness the instant you walk out the door. You could be lonely here, but alone? No.”
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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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