Good Monday morning in New York City, where it's been feeling like zero this morning.
Here's what else is happening:
- Alternate side parking rules are suspended today so the city can keep clearing snow.
- A New York state courts commission is trying to figure out ways to make juries reflective of the state's diversity.
- Waymo's permit to keep testing self-driving cars in New York City was extended through March. Is there any world where Mayor Zohran Mamdani lets them stay longer?
- Woody Allen is standing by his position that Jeffrey Epstein was a "substantial character" who hosted thoroughly enjoyable dinner parties full of interesting people.
- A South Carolina-based tour company is busing loads of revelers up to Connecticut for tours of cute little towns where they film Hallmark Christmas movies.
- Uncle Giuseppe’s grocery stores on Long Island also go hard for Christmas.
- Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is living in luxurious exile in Russia and going back to school to brush up on his ophthalmology.
- This morning I learned people have been dangling from New York City walk signs singing Kid Cudi's 2008 song "Maui Wowie."
- And finally, nice:
