Good Monday morning in New York City, where it's perfectly fine outdoor dining weather, according to some.
Here's what else is happening:
- The NYPD confirmed that it's been working with the FBI to surveil volunteer court watchers who monitor ICE activity in Lower Manhattan.
- A 26-year-old now-former aide to Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey has been charged with staging a fake politically motivated attack.
- The Nassau Inter-County Express transit system, AKA NICE, is getting new low-emission buses thanks to a $42 million federal grant.
- Times Square is getting a new ball.
- One potential benefit of the IBX: It'd take you right to the Kings Plaza mall.
- Doctors are concerned that more movies, TV shows and pop stars are making cigarettes look cool.
- Is the quarter-zip a gateway drug to going full Paddington?
- Why are middle-aged people so obsessed with scaffolding?
- And finally, hangin':
