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• New York Today: Welcome Back, Baseball

  

  The Yankees’ first baseman Greg Bird and the catcher Gary Sanchez are two players to watch.And the Mets have “five or six pretty promising young pitchers,” Mr. Witz said, singling out Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom and Matt Harvey as those to keep an eye on. Photo Look at that form, Matt Harvey! Credit Michael Ares for The New York Times So how does all of this bode for the coming season?The Mets are likely to get further than the Yankees, Mr. Witz predicted.“Both teams ..

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• 2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports

  

  Since disclosing the existence of the intelligence reports, Mr. Nunes has refused to identify his sources, saying he needed to protect them so others would feel safe going to the committee with sensitive information. In his public comments, he has described his sources as whistle-blowers trying to expose wrongdoing at great risk to themselves. Amid Trump Inquiry, a Primer on Surveillance Practices and Privacy The F.B.I. investigation into possible Trump campaign coord..

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• Michael Flynn Offers to Testify Before Congress in Exchange for ...

  

  Photo An immunity deal would make it impossible for the Justice Department to prosecute Michael T. Flynn. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, has offered to be interviewed by House and Senate investigators who are examining the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in exchange for immunity from prosecution, according to his lawyer and a congressional official.But the congressional official said investi..

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• New York Today: Police and Teens, Connecting

  

  And just like that, Dr. Fulani said, snapping her fingers in the air, “the humanity surfaces on both sides. It’s very beautiful.” The program started after the deadly police shooting of Sean Bell in Queens in 2006. Today, 7,500 New York police officers have either participated in a private workshop or watched a public performance at venues including the Police Academy in Queens, the Apollo in Harlem and the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn.And in 2017, it feels more relevant than ever.“A l..

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• Homeless 'Spitting Lady' had $19K on her when arrested

  

  She’s filthy rich. The homeless woman who has been spitting on Upper East Side residents was carrying more than $19,133 in cash on her when she was arrested Thursday for allegedly attacking a child, sources said. Hilda Barrion — nicknamed “The Spitting Lady of 77th Street” — was picked up at around 7 a.m. on East 78th Street and told officers she had amassed her fortune by collecting bottles and cans, the sources said. Besides the cash pile, Barrion, 65, was hauling around a load of random poss..

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• Trump's tax plan will benefit NYC's millionaires: report

  

  Nearly all of New York City’s millionaires would receive big tax cuts under President Donald Trump’s proposed tax overhaul, while more than one-third of moderate- and middle-income families would face increases, according to a government report issued on Thursday. City Comptroller Scott Stringer said Trump’s overall plan, as proposed during the Republican president’s campaign, would give more than $5 billion of tax cuts to city dwellers. But almost two-thirds of that would go to those earning m..

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• Scottie Pippen: Phil Jackson is to blame for Knicks' mess

  

  Add one more Hall of Famer who came to the support of Carmelo Anthony. But this one, Scottie Pippen, puts the blame for the Knicks woes at the feet of his former Bulls championship coach, Phil Jackson, and feels his old boss should get out of New York. “I’m going to have to go at my old coach Phil Jackson. I think he just hasn’t put the right pieces on the floor,” Pippen told ESPN host Rachel Nichols, who eventually asked the six-time champ if Jackson is the one who should be out in New York. “..

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• Eggslut, Breakfast-Sandwich Royalty From LA, Arrives in New York ...

  

  Soft-scrambled eggs, caramelized onions, and just-melted cheddar on Eggslut’s Fairfax sandwich. Photo: Liz Clayman Alvin Cailan is breakfast-famous in Los Angeles. As the chef and founder of Eggslut, his morning creations are widely considered to be among the city’s best. Each of Eggslut’s four locations go through 2,100 eggs a day; 2 million people have watched a six-minute video of Cailan making a sandwich. And now, Cailan has come East — it’s something of a return to New York, as it tur..

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• New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia Loved Comics So Much

  

  Photo: Keystone/Getty ImagesIn the ’30s and ’40s, the mayor of New York City was the very dramatic reformer Fiorello La Guardia. And while he’s famous for a number of things, his relationship with comics represents one of the very best intersections of political and pop culture history.I’ll admit to assuming that everyone knew about this—not because “New York is the center of the world,” but because everyone I talk to is enough of a comic book fan that I figured the stories about La Guardia had ..

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• Classical Music in NYC This Week

  

  Photo The pianist Paul Lewis will perform a program of rarities at the Town Hall on Sunday. See listing below. Credit Ian Douglas for The New York Times Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera.ENSEMBLE MISE-EN at the Italian Academy (April 5, 7 p.m.). Celebrating the 70th birthday of a crucial contemporary composer, Salvatore Sciarrino, whose fragile music pushes technical boundaries, this new-music collective plays five works spanning the last 40 years o..

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