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<news:title>New York Home Game Baseball 2026–Here’s How to Get There</news:title>
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<image:caption>Fans arrive for opening day at Citifield. </image:caption>
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<image:caption>Lucky Yankees Fans rode the 1917 Low-Vs to Yankee Stadium on the April 3 2026 Season Opener.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Lucky Yankees Fans rode the 1917 Low-Vs to Yankee Stadium on the April 3 2026 Season Opener.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Hard to believe, but these 1917-era Low-V cars were running six years before there was a Yankee Stadium; for the previous 10 years, the Yankees shared the long-gone Polo Grounds with the then-New York Giants.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow was snapped aboard the NYY Opener Low-V train to Yankee Stadium; some Yankee notables also rode along. Straus News Manhattan queried Crichlow if he was the Yankees opening pitcher that day. His answer? “No, not today.”</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Nostalgia train of “Redbirds” runs from 34 St-Hudson Yards to Mets-Willets Pt on Thursday, Mar 26, 2026, opening day of the New York Mets’ baseball season.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Lucky Yankee fans rode in style in 1917 subway cars nonstop from Grand Central to Yankee Stadium. Some waited on the uptown platform at the Manhattan station for an hour for a chance to ride on this train.</image:caption>
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<loc>https://www.ourtownny.com/news/roadway-dining-is-back-for-season-dot-now-wants-year-round-NA5736438</loc>
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<news:publication_date>2026-04-07T12:12:57-04:00</news:publication_date>
<news:title>Roadway Dining is Back For Season, DOT Now Wants Year-Round</news:title>
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<image:caption>Roadside outdoor dining is back for the season, albeit at a severely diminished scale. Under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the DOT has signaled that they support a shift back to looser all year-round rules, as does Council Speaker Julie Menin.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>In order to mark a shift in seasonal enforcement, the DOT says that the City Council must pass a Speaker Menin-promised bill to change the rules.</image:caption>
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<loc>https://www.ourtownny.com/news/beneath-a-canopy-of-petals-spring-s-most-elegant-moment-arrives-YF5733313</loc>
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<news:publication_date>2026-04-07T12:40:40-04:00</news:publication_date>
<news:title>Beneath a Canopy of Petals Spring’s Most Elegant Moment Arrives</news:title>
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<image:caption>The Bridle Path entrance at East 90th Street and 5th Avenue (Engineers’ Gate) has a canopy of cherry blossoms. </image:caption>
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<image:caption>The Pilgrim on East 72nd Street Central Park is surrounded by pink blossoms this time of year.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Striking a pose with cherry blossoms while a friend snaps away.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>A dog named Doo Yoo sports his own blossom.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Linzy Lin, from Long Island City, is dressed as a “blossom goddess”</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Crowds head to Central Park in awe of the Cherry Blossoms in peak bloom. </image:caption>
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<image:caption>Ladies get some close up on the blossoms</image:caption>
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<image:caption>A lady admires the blossoms.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>A young woman poses for a photo with cherry blossoms as the backdrop. </image:caption>
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<image:caption>Our Heather Stein, the writer, in Central Park taking in the beauty &amp;amp; serenity of the blossoms</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Jessie Sui (known by her tens-of-thousands of social media followers as &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/snaptocks/"&gt;“Snap Toks&lt;/a&gt;”) experiencing the blossoms for the first time</image:caption>
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<image:caption>This cherry blossom tree is on UES along the Central Park reservoir.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Alex Boodram and Chelsea Soo Hon from Queens came out to enjoy the Cherry Blossoms in Central Park</image:caption>
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<image:caption>A young child admires the cherry blossoms.</image:caption>
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<loc>https://www.ourtownny.com/news/sexy-oysters-no-myth-they-really-do-pack-a-wallop-YB5740166</loc>
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<news:publication_date>2026-04-07T18:13:13-04:00</news:publication_date>
<news:title>Sexy Oysters: No Myth, They Really Do Pack a Wallop</news:title>
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<image:caption>Scientific studies have found oysters really do contain ingredients that can impact your love life. </image:caption>
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<loc>https://www.ourtownny.com/news/man-indicted-for-dui-pileup-in-harlem-that-killed-delivery-biker-XB5740044</loc>
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<news:publication_date>2026-04-07T22:37:55-04:00</news:publication_date>
<news:title>Man Indicted For DUI Pileup in Harlem That Killed Delivery Biker </news:title>
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<image:caption>A Bronx resident has been indicted for vehicular homicide in connection with a DUI pileup on March 19 (pictured above), after he slammed into two bikers on W. 125th St., killing one delivery worker and seriously injuring another deliverista. </image:caption>
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<image:caption>Zacarias Darly, a 28-year-old Bronx resident originally from the Dominican Republic, was killed when he was struck by the SUV in the bus lane on W. 125th St. (just outside the Apollo Theater). </image:caption>
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<loc>https://www.ourtownny.com/city-arts/corned-beef-play-orders-up-humor-in-off-broadway-debut-JY5724856</loc>
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<news:publication_date>2026-04-08T11:42:45-04:00</news:publication_date>
<news:title>“Corned Beef” Play Orders Up Humor in Off-Broadway Debut</news:title>
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<image:caption>“Corned Beef (And Other Arguments)“ was written and is performed by Robyn Kimmel, who plays the Jewish half of the two-person play, and Brian Martin, who plays a down on his luck Irishman. </image:caption>
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<image:caption>“Corned Beef (And Other Arguments)”&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;is&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;a new two-person comedy and classic immigrant story of success and chasing a dream no matter the cost. </image:caption>
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<loc>https://www.ourtownny.com/news/upper-east-side-neighborhood-event-calendar-apr-9-15-MY5742284</loc>
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<news:publication_date>2026-04-08T12:02:06-04:00</news:publication_date>
<news:title>Upper East Side Neighborhood Event Calendar: Apr. 9-15</news:title>
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<image:caption>Museum of Arts &amp;amp; Design via www.madmuseum.org</image:caption>
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<image:caption>jcc via mmjccm.org</image:caption>
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<loc>https://www.ourtownny.com/news/firebrand-still-burns-after-50-years-of-local-activism-HY5742779</loc>
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<news:publication_date>2026-04-08T14:05:06-04:00</news:publication_date>
<news:title>Firebrand Still Burns after 50+ Years of Local Activism</news:title>
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<image:caption>Arlene Geiger, who has been protesting since the anti-war movement in the 1970s, is gearing up for another national protest on May Day. </image:caption>
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