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What a relief! City Council passes bill to double public restrooms by 2035 what if you can't hold it that long?

Forest Hills is getting a smash-hit burger spot. 7th Street Burger is set to open its second Queens location at 107-22 Continental Ave. at the end of May, bringing its popular smash-burgers to the heart of Forest Hills. The fast-growing chain, known for its simple, classic menu and late-night vibes, was founded in 2021 in the East Village and has since rapidly expanded throughout the city and beyond. “We started in the East Village and have been expanding through Manhattan in the last few years,” said Frank Perez, chief of staff at 7th Street Burger. “We started in the spring of 2021… we have three stores right now in Brooklyn, we’re in Hoboken, we opened shop in D.C. over the summer.” Diners can choose between single or double cheeseburgers served with pickles, onions, and house sauce. Impossible burgers are also available for vegetarian diners. Sides include standard french fries, as well as loaded fries options topped with jalapeno’s beef, onions, and cheese. For diners looking for a dash of heat, 7th Street Burger offers a jalapeno double and single patty burger. Prices start at $6.50 for a single cheeseburger, while a double cheeseburger is $9.50.

My brother in law is Catholic, but they raised the kids Jewish. He used to call it "find the Abbie Hoffman".

Unsecured Penguin Causes Helicopter Crash After Hitting Pilot's Controls in Freak Accident will those Hollywood bad boys EVER get their comeuppance?

Who said they were kosher for Pesach? They've been in my pantry for months. My parents forced me to go to yeshiva until Dec 4th of 5th grade (when I transferred to a school where the yard had been hung out in at one point by a couple of kids named Paul & Julio) and since I was paroled I have never even looked for a kosher symbol. In fact, the three years I went to college in Syracuse I made it a point to eat at the on-campus Burger King every year on Yom Kipper because I had so enjoyed the yeshiva culture.

I'm curious how you're feeling about them now that the season is ending.

Terrific episode last night but as Olympia kept going up and down the stairs I was thinking 'if that was me they'd be finding me on the floor of one of those landings.'

We’ll always have Paris April 9. Mark down the date. It’s one for the Weird and Wild history books. But you’ll need your passport. Want to guess why? Because it was the first day in baseball history that Paris (Kyren) and France (Ty) hit home runs on the same day. Viva le coup de circuit!

Kids eat free this Easter at participating Applebee’s locations in Queens

Queens Holocaust survivors gather for early Passover Seder in Forest Hills

My matzo balls come out soft; they and the egg noodles are both Manischevitz. I always add some chicken bullion to the water when making either.

I hope you feel better by the way.

When I was a young'n we had a set of passover dishes and cutlery. That tomfoolery ended when my mother decided it wasn't worth getting on a step stool twice in a week to get them out of then back into the top cabinets. They eventually got mixed in with the regular dishes. Enjoy your Seder. I am planning on making a pot roast and some chicken soup as soon as I open up some room in my freezer. I always portion out my pot roast and freeze it all as soon as it cools down so that I don't pick at it all night and eat half of it. I use wonton soup pint containers to make sure I make small portions... I have enough veggies in there that I average a bit less than three ounces of meat per serving and I have no idea why I am telling you all this. But, again, enjoy the Seder!

JVS - Jon Vincent Syndrome.

His nickname on Grey's Anatomy was McSteamy. He's been married to Rebecca Gayheart since 2002. She filed for divorce in 2018 but they never finalized it and she recently withdrew her application.

The Yeshiva University Maccabees, losers of 99 games in a row, faced off against the Lehman College Lightning, losers of 42 straight, in a double header on Tuesday. Yeshiva blew a lead in the ninth inning and lost its 100th straight in the opener then built a big lead and managed to hold on to win the nightcap.

Oscars to Add Best Stunts Category, Starting With 2028 Ceremony TVLINE.COM Stunt performers are finally getting their day in the sun: The Oscars are adding a category for best stunts... I think the best stunt would be to stay awake throughout the whole Oscar telecast.

Vladdy gets $175 million paid in various amounts over 14 years... Plus a $325 million signing bonus.

Purple Isn’t Real, Science Says. Your Brain Is Just Making It Up. Elizabeth Rayne The human eye does not actually see purple, as purple is not a color on the visual spectrum. Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum, which technically deosn’t make any sense, but our brains evolved a solution. When we “see” a combination of blue and red wavelengths, the brain bends the visual spectrum into a circle that joins blue and red at the point of purple. You might be today years old when you realize there is no purple in the rainbow. There is no P in ROYGBIV. But wait, what about violet? Well, despite what you may have come to believe, violet is not purple. In fact, violet (along with the rest of the colors in a naturally occurring rainbow) has something purple doesn’t—its own wavelength of light. Anyone who ever ended up with a sunburn knows violet wavelengths are real, as the Sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation is the reason you need to wear sunscreen, even though you can’t see those wavelengths (more on that later). Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo are all just as real. But purple? Well, purple is just your brain’s way of resolving confusion. That’s right. Red and blue (or violet) wavelengths are two opposite extremes on the spectrum. When you see both of these wavelengths in the same place, you eyes and brain don’t know what to do with them, so they compensate, and the clashing wavelengths register as the color we call purple. It doesn’t actually exist. The visible light spectrum detectable by human eyes makes up only a small fraction of wavelengths (0.0035%, to be exact). Those colors are made available to us by millions of densely packed photoreceptor cells known as cones, which respond to light hitting our retina. We can only see colors that have wavelengths of the right sizes (between 350 to 750 nanometers) for our cones to respond to. That’s why we cannot make out UV or infrared light—UV wavelengths are too short for our cones to detect, and infrared wavelengths are too long. Cone cells come in three flavors: short wavelength cones (S), medium wavelength cones (M), and long wavelength cones (L). Approximately 60% of cones are L cones that best absorb reddish wavelengths (as a result of the reddish pigments they contain), 30% are M cones that best absorb greenish wavelengths (and have greenish pigment), and 10% are S cones that best absorb bluish wavelengths (and have bluish pigment). All three types of cones can absorb numerous wavelengths close to their peak—though, that absorption gets weaker the farther you stray from the peak absorption wavelength—and overlap in their ability to detect colors like yellows and teals. Cones do not actually see colors themselves, but they send electrical signals based on the wavelengths they absorb through the optic nerve to a part of the brain called the thalamus, where the signals are processed. Once those signals are parsed, they are sent to the visual cortex, which makes sense of how many cones were activated by a wavelength of light, and the strength of the signal from each cone (and type of cone). The brain then determines what color you are looking at by comparing the differences in signal strength, allowing us to see up to a million colors. When you look at in-between colors (like teal, for example), your brain averages out how many cones of which types responded to the detection of that in-between wavelength. Teal light would “light up” most of your S cones pretty strongly, but would also light up some of your M cones. If there is more blue than green, you see what you perceive as a shade of blue, and vice versa. The problem with purple is that it isn’t supposed to be possible to create a color from wavelengths on opposite ends of the spectrum. The shortest wavelength detection made by your S cones (violet light) has no overlap with the longest wavelength detection made by your L cones (red light). To compensate, the brain bends the spectrum into a circle, making the two extremes meet at purple. It’s an illusion of physics and neuroscience that makes us think we see a nonspectral color. Despite the fact that it is technically a figment—more like pigment—of our imaginations, purple has earned a rich reputation as the color of royalty, nobility, power, luxury, devotion, mystery, and magic. Maybe the most appropriate association is that last one.

It's April 9th. The reds and giants are finishing their season series today. Nobody else has beaten the giants yet. That's baseball, Suzyn! Verlander retired the first seven batters he faced today on 24 pitches, including 20 strikes. It took him just 30 pitches to get the last two outs of the third inning, only giving up five runs along the way to a team that had scored two runs or less in seven of their previous eight games. That's elderly baseball, Suzyn!

Dotel pitched for 13 different big-league teams (a record later broken by Edwin Jackson, at 14). Pedro Martinez has said that he has family members that are still missing in the collapse.

Adolescence Season 2 Talks Underway as Series Soars to No. 4 on Netflix’s All-Time Most Popular Chart

At least 124 people have died.

I’ve noticed that Elsbeth 2×18 is titled “I Know What You Did Thirty-Three Summers Ago” while Ghosts 4×20 is similarly titled “I Know What You Did Thirty-Seven Summers Ago” — and they both air the same night (April 24). This doesn’t seem like a coincidence, and obviously the shows cannot crossover, but is there a reason for them to match? Or am I reading too much into things? - Marvin 
TV LINE: That is a very fun coincidence, though I am told by CBS it is merely that -a fun coincidence

Paramount+ has renewed the Australian rom-com Colin From Accounts for a third season, TVLine has learned. Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer will return to write, executive-produce and star in the new season. Brammall and Dyer star as Gordon and Ashley, who find a romantic spark while they care for an injured dog they name Colin (From Accounts). Emma Harvie co-stars as Ashley’s friend Megan, with Genevieve Hegney and Michael Logo as Gordon’s co-workers Chiara and Brett, and Helen Thomson as Ashley’s ridiculously nosy mother Lynelle. (Read here why we think Colin is worth watching.) Season 2, which debuted in September, ended on a cliffhanger, with Gordon impulsively proposing to Ashley at Megan’s wedding — and Ashley turning him down flat. “We’re VERY excited to bring you Season 3 of our show,” Brammall and Dyer said in a statement. “To be honest, with the way we ended Season 2, it would have been weird not to make a third, so here we are. We promise we won’t leave you hanging like that again. Probably.”