Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where the Mamdani administration doesn't think the city should pay for Eric Adams' legal defense in his sexual abuse case.
Here's what else is happening:
- A man who says he rode with the taxi driver who later crashed into two women on a Lower East Side sidewalk over the weekend recounted an extremely stressful 30-minute journey across Lower Manhattan (with a rerouting to Brooklyn).
- Playwrights Horizons has settled with a white New Jersey man who sued over the theater's "BIPOC night" discounted ticketing.
- New York City is resuming its financing program for homeowners who want to build granny flats on their property.
- Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke some Irish yesterday.
- Netflix is reportedly sitting on millions of dollars worth of unsold Meghan Markle jam.
- Good for Venezuela.
- Good for Wired magazine.
- And finally, salad days: