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Bird Song of the Day The sound on this a bit low, but it really reminds me of the prairie. #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Resuming the upward climb, though at a lesser slope. Looks like the Midwest did it, from the regional data, with now a little help from the Northeast. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the next days, or even weeks. Is the virus gathering itself for another leap?

Gem Spa Is Auctioning Off Its Iconic Sign, Awning, Egg Cream Fountains & More arrow Back in May, East Village landmark Gem Spa announced that they were closing for good after almost a century at the corner of St. Marks Place and Second Avenue. The store had struggled in recent years with losing their license to sell cigarettes and lottery tickets, and rent increases—and the pandemic turned out to be the final straw. Gem Spa is now auctioning off some of the most iconic objects from its store, including the landmark yellow-emblazoned Gem Spa sign; gates featuring work by renowned a...

Photo by: Lindsey Nicholson/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images NYC fast food workers set to secure new protections A pair of City Council bills set to pass later today will protect the city’s fast food workers from being fired without cause and require chain restaurants to take employment seniority into account before firing someone due to economic reasons, the New York Daily Newsreports. Council members Brad Lander and Adrienne Adams introduced the bills, respectively, last year. This proposed legislation, which is aimed at chains with 30 or more locations, includes...