Good Friday morning in New York City, where it's probably too late to leave town and not hit insane traffic.
Here's what else is happening:
- The NYPD has increased security at synagogues and Jewish cultural institutions in New York City following this week's fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy employees in Washington, D.C.
- 5 Times Square, a massive office tower that currently has a Red Lobster on the ground level, will be converted into 1,250 apartments.
- Police said someone broke into a house on Staten Island earlier this month and stole a painting by T.F. Chen worth $500,000.
- In an attempt to boost its lifeguard ranks, the city's parks department is not requiring timed swim tests for anyone who just wants to guard the shallow kiddie pools.
- Welcome to Nolita, home of the good burgers.
- The Beastie Boys and Chili's have reached a settlement over the restaurant chain's alleged unauthorized use of "Sabotage" in an ad.
- "We didn't sign up for the constant hum": Residents of lakeside towns upstate are annoyed by nearby Bitcoin mining facilities.
- If the Trump administration bars international students from attending Harvard, who's going to row on the men's heavyweight crew team?
- And finally, he did it: