🌱 NYC's Biggest Scams Of 2022 + New Subway Cars Debut On A Train

Good morning, New York City!

• Online scammers took $300,000 from New Yorkers last year, the Better Business Bureau finds.
• New subway cars are debuting on the A line.
• Saturday Night Live's editors are threatening to strike.

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Here are the top five stories in New York City today:

1. Online scammers took over $300,000 from New Yorkers in the past year, the Metro New York Better Business Bureau found in a recent report. Retail sales — including those online —also topped the complaints received by NY Attorney General Letitia James' office this year. The second on the list was tenant/landlord complaints. (New York City Patch)
2. Former President Donald Trump has been invited to testify next week in front of a grand jury as prosecutors grow closer to determining whether to proceed with a criminal case against him over alleged hush money payments made on his behalf during his 2016 presidential campaign. (Associated Press)
3. The latest generation of subway trains was introduced on the A line this Friday. They feature wider doors, security cameras, and digital screens. (New York City Patch)
4. A retired former police officer walked away free in a matter of hours after allegedly menacing three teenagers with a gun in Brownsville, Brooklyn, recently obtained footage shows. As THE CITY reports, the footage shows that it appears two NYPD chiefs "intervened" to help the retiree get off the hook. (THE CITY)
5. A former roommate of Congressman George Santos said that Santos taught him how to skim credit card information from ATM machines and clone cards, which the roommate was later deported to Brazil for doing. Santos denied the allegations in a tweet. (Long Island Press)

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This weekend in New York City:

• Saturday: New York Irish Whiskey Festival — Battery Park, Manhattan (1:30 p.m.)
• Saturday: Juilliard String Quartet presented by Peoples' Symphony Concerts (7:30 p.m.)
• Saturday: New York International Children's Film Festival 2023 — Midtown Manhattan (multiple times)
• Sunday: Spring Children’s Garden Family Day — Queens Botanical Gardens (1 p.m.)
• Sunday: WWE Road To WrestleMania Supershow — Madison Square Garden (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• A new work-readiness summer program will launch this year. It will be open to undocumented youth, unlike the Summer Youth Employment Program. (City Limits)
• More than 100 libraries across the five boroughs are competing to see who has the best book display — and New Yorkers can vote for their favorite. (Time Out)
• "Live from New York, it's a Saturday night strike!" Saturday Night Live's editorial team will go on strike on April 1 if they don't reach a contract agreement before then. (New York City Patch)
• Darrell Stone, a pasta chef at the restaurant Harry’s Table Cipriani, is facing eviction from his Brooklyn apartment over "a single rent check plus $84." (Bed-Stuy Patch)
• The brother of actress Julia Fox has been arrested after police said they found "ghost guns and equipment for manufacturing narcotics" at his Upper East Side apartment. (New York Daily News)

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