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- Because the world has gotten hotter, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is officially raising the benchmark temperatures by which daily highs are deemed above- or below-average.
- The Times details how the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, which was in danger of going under two years ago, succeeded in joining New York City's Cultural Institutions Group while retaining ownership of the four historic houses that stand as monuments to Black home-ownership in the city.
- The Armory track in Manhattan is auctioning off an NFT linked to an original video of Alan Webb breaking the high school boys' mile record.
- Business is booming for this New Jersey restaurateur who's been opening new locations in Garden State strip malls during the pandemic.
- Carmelo Anthony, who recently launched his own production company to make movies and TV shows, cites Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as his primary inspiration.
- The Young Turks record label, whose artists include The xx and FKA Twigs, is changing its name to "Young" because it doesn't want to be associated with the group that carried out the Armenian Genocide during World War I.
- Disney World will now officially allow guests to remove their face masks to take photos outside.
- And finally, this is not a bodega cat:
Published Apr 7, 2021
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