Good Thursday morning in New York City, where they're racing to dump sidewalk snow into hot tubs.
Here's what else is happening:
- Over in Jersey City, the snow removal process hasn't gone perfectly and the new mayor, James Solomon, has apologized and taken responsibility.
- Dante de Blasio was among the anti-ICE protesters arrested at the TriBeCa Hilton Garden Inn earlier this week.
- Gov. Kathy Hochul has about a week to pick a 2026 running mate.
- A Westchester man's elderly mom died and the New York Times failed to cancel and refund her annual print subscription, so he got NBC 4's Lynda Baquero on the case.
- SEE IT: A sprinter van became encased in ice after the driver parked under a leaky pipe in the Bronx.
- Paul Dano said he's "grateful that the world spoke up for me" after Quentin Tarantino called him weak.
- Writer Dan McQuade, the author of this masterpiece about weird celebrity quotes posted at the Jon Bon Jovi rest stop in New Jersey, has died at the age of 43.
- And finally, they're off:
